Rants

of the little red ragtop Mazda MX5 who was infront of me on the way home.  Be very glad I wasn’t driving a big ass truck….

Rather than one specifically for the Ford Edge.  I don’t care.  You just made sure I have no interest AT ALL in buying one of your cars…..

I can’t find a copy of the ad online so as to share the annoyance with you all, I’ll post it as soon as I find it.

Somehow I don’t think thats the reaction they expected from that commercial, but I do have to admit that it caught my attention!

Look.

You CHOOSE to join that online community.

You KNEW person X was part of that community when you joined.

You KNEW person X was an integral part of said community, if not WHEN you joined than shortly afterwards.

You KNEW shortly after you joined that you did not get along with person X.

You’ve had a YEAR to either leave the community or fix the personality issue.

The community in question has already been torn to pieces by idiots who don’t understand that “politics” only kills not strengthens.

And yet YOU continue to snipe at person X EVERY CHANCE YOU GET.

And not in a nice way.

And now you’re taking it OUT of said community to places where some of the (few remaining) members also tend to congregate.

Fuck you.

And then there are FUCKING MONDAYS DAMMITT!!!!!

BTW, if you can’t get online and you have McAfee its thanks to the software update that went out Saturday night….

Oh, if you just so happen to be the software developer who’s in charge up “updating” Stamps.com’s software do NOT introduce yourself to me.  You’ll be happier that way….

So, yesterday I finally got an email from Sitemeter’s support folks.  Basically an “oops, we screwed up changing servers, but its all set now!!”. 

One paragraph read:

***Missing Data due to server outages***
Unfortunately, this is something that happens. 
If you experienced missing data, it should have been very, 
very minimal and should have only been within a 2-3 hour time frame.  
That issue has since been fixed and should be appearing properly.

Ummmm, no.  Lets try this basic math thing again.  Screen shots taken from my Sitemeter account as of a few minutes ago:

So, the numbers from the yellow column of the 2nd picture SHOULD all add up to equal the total visits in the first picture.  Right?

538+978+789+758+382+417=3862 NOT 3324 and that’s without the missing visit counts from at least one day in this whole mess which never did re-appear on the count page….

Try again Sitemeter folks.

I will say this, if Sitemeter hasn’t fixed this by the end of the day Friday I’ll be ditching them.

In the mean time, lets do a basic math lesson.

Early in the day (8:30am or so) on Aug 2nd my total visits according to Sitemeter was 2993.  You’ll have to take my word for that as I wasn’t smart enough to take a screen shot (You’ll also have to take my word for the fact that it ought to have been closer to 3993 as I didn’t take a screen shot of that either).

According to Sitemeter, here are my visits for Aug 2nd and since.  (this does not include MY personal visits):

So, some math: 2993 + 120 (SOME of the visits from Aug 2nd had already hit by that time, no idea how many but I’ll guess) + 117+65+37+41=3373 visits.  Right?

Here’s a screenshot from my Sitememter account as of about a minute before I started typing this:

Strange how it doesn’t add up huh?  Yes, I’m pissed, how could you tell?

Part 1, part 2

Well, in the week since this started, they’ve fixed the issues with the logo screwing up the page, and as of about 7pm EST yesterday they appear to have fixed it so that all new IP’s are listed correctly.  My visits count is still screwy though.  I should be over 4k at this point, not barely over 3k…..not to mention that its not adding visits to the total correctly.  The counter went from 2993 visits early in the day Aug 2 to 3111 visits as of right now.  According to Sitemeter’s own counts on Aug 2 I had 148 visits, and on Aug 3rd I had 117, and so far this morning I’ve had 20….if the Sitemeter folks need someone to come in and explain basic math I’d be delighted to do so……

I CAN just look at the stats as provided by the server, and I do generally keep an eye on them, but I found Sitemeter convient and was actually considering paying for an account since my daily hits have reached a high enough average number to make being only able to see the last 100 annoying.  Not so much any more.  I’ve installed StatCounter, we’ll see how that goes….

Well, they fixed the code on their end, so its not screwing up my page any more…..instead they’ve screwed up my stats.

Before the problems last week I was approaching 4k visits.  Don’t recall the exact number but I remember thinking I was less than a week to 4k.

After it came back it was showing 3300+ visits.  Odd, but I couldn’t swear for sure what the exact number had been before…..

Now its showing LESS than 3k visits AND its showing all the IP address as the same thing regardless of the visitor…..

Arg!

I don’t want to switch to Google’s Analytics.  Are there any OTHER options?  Yes the server keeps track TOO, but its not as easy to work with….

That is all.