Today my Google business cards came in the mail! If you missed it early last week Google had a promotion for their Google Profiles that you could get 25 free business cards. So why not sign up when Google is giving away free stuff right? Anyways mine came in the mail today and they are pretty decent, not as durable as my regular business cards, but you can’t really complain when they are free! You can check out my Google Profile here.
These past couple of weeks I have been working on a birthday present for my sister. So for her present I put to good use my degree and built her and her husbands wedding/life update website. The website presented many challenges and made me research and learn new things. 
Some of the things the problems that I faced was needing to put about 180 pictures up (soon to be 800+) and to embed a guestbook. For the pictures I used a JavaScript tab interface and then had a separate tab for every gallery. This didn’t work out perfect and it takes some time to load, so its not perfect but works for now. The other was embedding a guestbook. For this I used Ascended Guestbook. This was relatively easy to set up and embed although it did give me some problems that were easy to fix once I realized what it was (.html –> .php). Its a continuing project, but for now the site is up and running.
I also passed 2,000 unique visitors for this blog. If you remember back in August I blogged about 1,000 unique visitors and I thought it was a big deal. It took 8 months to get to 1,000 visitors and now only 4 months to get to 2,000. So if this keeps up then at the end of January I should hit 3,000. I doubt that, but we will see what happens.
If you haven’t heard already Google came out with their own web browser today called Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a browser that looks to compete with the IE market share more then the Firefox market share. Chrome is an open source browser but is currently only made for windows PCs. There is however a portable version for your thumbdrives. Overall its a pretty impressive browser however it does have a long way to go. There have been some talk about it being a little intrusive about your personal life but nothing that bothers me, yet at least. The second thing was the amount of ads that I saw, I hope when this takes off somebody ports over AdBlock Plus for it, then it would be useable. Hit the jump for some screen shots and things that Chrome does.
As of writing this entry right now there have been 1,001 unique visitors to my blog. I started this blog back on December 3ed 2007, so a day before 9 complete months there have been 1,001 visitors or about 111.17 visitors per month. The most visitors were 19 on January 13, 2008. I think its pretty impressive for such little work that I’ve actually put into it. I also currently have a google page rank of 4 out of 10. There have been visitors from 63 different countries with the top 5 being(these are all time visits):
These are the top 5 searches:
As for my main portfolio site I’ve only had 281 unique visitors. My main site has a google page rank of 2 out of 10.
I stumbled upon Digsby a couple of weeks ago and decided to try it out. It was alright the first time I tried it but the one thing that kept me from switching was that all of my conversations were logged under Pidgin and I often reference them so it was a big thing to not have. However this week the site makeuseof.com posted a blog entry on Digsby and I made a comment about the log issue. Within probably an hour I received an email from a guy telling me about the digsby log converter and then there was a comment from one of the dev members telling me about the converter (Here is the converter).So I gave it a try and now I am a happy digsby user. One of the things I love about digsby is the ability for it to synch with pop/imap email. So that it will give me constant updates when I receive an email and then open it with ease. The other item mentioned in the title is Woopra. Woopra is like Google analytics and tracks visitors to your site. Hit the jump for why its so cool.
Edit: Updated the Digsby Log Converter Link. New Link here.
