I can’t sleep if I didn’t write something about this film. This film is one of the two best examples (the other being the “Thank For Smoking”) to tell the world that some things cannot be controlled however one tries to because these things are designed to be that way. There is no moral ground surrounding them.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, the movie is about a man who lobbies weapons to warring parties. When he was caught by an FBI, he was immediately released because “he is needed by the government.” If you are so naive about the world, war is caused during peaceful times to create a balance. There will always be war. Peace is a pipe dream. War does not have an antonym. It’s the reality.
May 28th, 2008
I feel cocky tonight, so I’ll present you with deceiving stats for this web site. I intentionally cropped the graphs to have 400px width so that they won’t mess up the layout of the web site. Giving, of course, the sample containing the highest peak.
If you see a graph, do not conclude immediately. You need more information in order to understand the situation — the behavior of the sample. Statistics is widely used now to give us false information. Every morning you will hear these information in the news. Researchers taking down stats and most of us make facts out of these samples. That’s why I hate the medical field so very much because of its dependence to stats.
Below is a Wordpress blogstat graph. Even though I’m showing a sample with the higest peak, blogstat shows that this is a typical activity for this site. That’s an average of 1000 visits. Blogstat does not compute according to a visitor’s uniqueness. So you may think that I’m bored every day and since I have no life, I visit the site 1000 or so times in order to see a graph looking like this.
You thought wrong! Below is a graph from Google Analytics. It’s really a boring graph because it’s nearly constant (almost a straight line). The graph below (the Y-axis has an interval of 1000 visitors) is showing an average of 1000 UNIQUE visitors daily. That proves the graph above to be legitimate.
Why then did I entitle this entry “Deceiving…”? Well, I intentionally omitted relevant information. The information I omitted do not affect the result of the graphs above, but they do affect the understanding of how the site is doing.
May 28th, 2008
Okay I have been wondering about these in the past few weeks (or months maybe):
- How come new bloggers still use Blogspot.com over Wordpress.com?
- Why is there a need to create multiple blogsites? (most of the time are not updated)
Results of my ponders:
- I still have no idea, but I strongly suggest new bloggers to use wordpress.com… Much nicer… and with class.
- (a) In order to increase PageRank. (Get your friends to hyperlink you, damnit!)
(b) Increase income. (Annoying and you are a disgrace to blogworld.)
(c) People, what’s the use of CATEGORIES if you’ll be making a different site for each category you can think of?
Confessions & Defense:
I have four (4) domains, two of which are publicly active. One is private. One is under construction for more than a year. I also have one (1) Tumblr site. This domain of course is personal web site (contains blogs). The other domain is for my town (a web site) so it makes sense that I have to separate that. Not so much traffic in that either because only the “townspeople” can understand that site. The internet radio which I may shutdown later on is for my own amusement - and select others. I can’t put that in here because it’s static based - old skool! The under construction site is not worth talking about. My Tumblr site is more like a dumpsite of media bookmarks. Media streams that I don’t want to mess this site’s layout. Visit that site ’cause it has fun stuff.
Any thoughts?
May 28th, 2008
