Category: Blogging

Pages I find through SiteMeter

I use SiteMeter to track traffic to this site (I guess I could use the logs that my ISP provides, but I started using SiteMeter years ago for Defenestration Corner, where logs weren’t available, and I like the reports they provide).

Every so often, I look at the referers they report, and if something looks interesting (usually a search engine referral), I’ll click on it. Today, I found that my blog had been reached by a Google query for “kedit macros 2005”; I was curious enough to look at that page of Google results to see what else showed up. There wasn’t much, but because it was the second page of results, I decided to look at the first page.

And there was an entry with a very intriguing title: Eastern Orthodox Editors (XEDIT/KEDIT/THE, etc). It is one page on an interesting site (http://www.softpanorama.org) prepared by Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov as a service to the UN Sustainable Development Networking Programme.

Dr. Bezroukov has some definite views on editors (ones which aren’t far from mine). I am going to have to take a closer look at vim the next time I fire up my Linux box — I’ve been using it strictly at the same level of knowledge that I had for vi back in 1992 or so, and it appears that it’s far more capable than I’d given it credit for.

Still getting set up

Thanks to Ed Costello, I discovered that I had a backlevel of WordPress, one which didn’t properly create the RSS and Atom feeds. So I updated the site yesterday, and that should be fixed.

I’m amazed that people have actually found this blog already; I wasn’t planning to advertise it until I’d figured out how to migrate the content from Defenestration Corner. I guess I’d better get busy on that!

Moving in

I’d been thinking of moving my blog to its own top-level domain (and onto WordPress) for a while, but I couldn’t decide what domain to use. Until this weekend, when the name “ReadThisBlog” popped into my mind. I would have liked to have had readthisblog.com, but it’s parked at Network Solutions — but readthisblog.net should do just fine.

As time permits, I’ll move my old content here, but in the meantime, please visit Defenestration Corner for a historical view.

I’m still playing with the format here, too — what looks good on a 1400×1050 screen isn’t so great at 1024×768 (and I don’t want to think what it looks like at 800×600). So expect changes.