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I was looking at the break down of operating system share for the blog since I have nothing to do today. Not surprising that Windows is top actually.

* Windows (90487) - 80.9 %
* Unknown (16540) - 14.7 %
* Macintosh (4180) - 3.7 %
* Linux (600) - 0.5 %
* Unknown Unix system (22) - 0 %
* Symbian OS (10) - 0 %
* OpenBSD (9) - 0 %
* Sun Solaris (2) - 0 %

I was thinking like, huh, there are people using OpenBSD and Sun Solaris? Oh wow… And Symbian OS too. I think it would be a deprived experience if you view //beconfused through a mobile phone. I haven’t tried it as I don’t have a phone that can actually do that. Anybody tried viewing my blog in a mobile phone?

Once in a while, I’ll just dig out statistics and view keyphrases. Keyphrases are what people are searching this the search engines to get to my blog. So I wondered how my blog can be connected to the world.

But this time, I found that some men are searching for the strangest things! In no particular order:

* singapore girls wearing bikini
* ericia lee maxim
* fiona xie in own bikini
* zoe tay wearing bikini
* ann kok in bikini
* archive of fhm singapore

See, it’s all about the bikini’s. And I don’t have search things, the nearest is probably Ann Kok stripping to her bra. It’s quite funny to see what local people are searching. Most people include Fiona Xie into their searches because she’s the hotter one and she once ran in bikini in Orchard Road for a drama series about bikini swimming.

Then there are people who seem to be searching for some sex-related videos of Singaporean women:

* singapore college student caught in act
* singapore phone video clip student
* sex singapore bukit batok
* polytechnic student caught in video
* singapore student video

This is probably with regards to the now famous Tammy incident. Tammy is a 17 year old polytechnic girl who lost her phone with video clips of herself having oral, normal and anal sex with her boyfriend. I didn’t even want to talk about it when the outrageous video clip got the attention of our media on Febuary, I’m tired of the news so you didn’t see any news in my blog on this. And trust me, I don’t have the Tammy video, perhaps you guys can try other web sites instead.

And finally, some men just prefer artwork:

* ragnarok cute female pictures

I do have Ragnarok pictures that I thought was quite cute - ones that my friend gave me when he married a character in the game.

_(My friend Daniel’s online wedding images in the game. I thought that’s a pretty cute feature. Image used with Daniel’s permission.)_

[Apologies to the crazy pingbacks in my blog, some scripts of mine went wrong.]

I’m been updating parts of my blog to better categorize my posts. I don’t have very good organizational skills apparently but I’m trying hard to manage my posts, migrating them around the categories and looking through to see if there are any information I ought not to write.

My blog grew larger by each post and comment submited and I end up changing categories once in a while. January 2006 has seen 22347 unique visitors, 267962 hits and used 2.42 GB of bandwidth. January 2006’s statistics gotten prettier as compared to December 2005’s. But unfortunately my statistics are not accurate since my site is counting each person who hotlink my image only as a unique visitor!

The favorite days to come are Mondays and Fridays. People hate coming to my site on Sundays, I guess they’re out with their family and friends. January caught more spam than any other month too. About 200 I think.

Every month, my blog uses 2.42 GB of bandwidth which is about 12% of my available bandwidth. I gotta start to conserve already. I won’t prevent hotlinking of images at the moment. I plan to post images with a //beconfused logo on the bottom right of all the images I posted in future in hopes of discouraging people from using my bandwidth. I am aware many sites are using my images. The drastic measure would be to ban all external sites from using my images, but I don’t want to spoil the links of others.

Sorry for those annoying recent comments though, the old posts are trying to send pings and they start pinging //beconfused’s own posts.

Recent comments »
» //beconfused » Blog Archive » why//blog in why//blog
» //beconfused » Blog Archive » scary//teacher in barbra//mcclintock
» Mr. Dew in rapid//share
» //beconfused » Blog Archive » seven//final in seven//beta
» //beconfused » Blog Archive » seven//beta in msn//winks
» Nafcom in rapid//share

On a side note, Internet Explorer’s visitors have been decreasing - now to 71%. Firefox users take up 14%. Opera and Apple’s Safari browser takes up 2% of my visitors each.

[EDIT: I wrote that IE's visitors were 'increasing', that was incorrect, they were 'decreasing'.]

Previously, I wrote about a tool that tells you your Google PageRank, now there is a Google PageRank prediction tool.

There is a site that claims to predict your next Google PageRank. I don’t know how it works, they may just be giving fake PageRanks to make you happy. Who knows?

You can check out RustyBrick’s Google PageRank Prediction.

[This is a pre-recorded message, Mr. Dew will be unavailable for 3 weeks due to his Physical Training Phase Programme.]

I found this niffy tool that can tell you the Google PageRank(tm) without having to download the Google toolbar. [Read my Google Toolbar 3 review.]

You just need to paste the following code in your site and it’ll tell you your PageRank(tm):

For example, //beconfused has a PageRank(tm) of 5/10:

It’s a great tool for all statistics-obsessed webmasters. Admittedly, that would include me.

And speaking of Google, would you mind helping the poor [er... that would be me] a little and click on the advertisements around my blog? It would help a lot. Please? It’s located in the side bar, sometimes it’s at the top and bottom, you’ll see it if you scroll around. I hope to be able to cover my entire web hosting cost with advertisements. A click would do. Thanks in advance.

This is my 500th post. I have been blogging for almost 2 years already. That means I blog around 5 times a week roughly which is not excessive I think.

_(Before I write this post, there are 499 posts; this makes this post the 500^th^.)_

I start constructing this layout since a really long time ago actually. There has been a lot of changes and alterations to this layout. It’s structure is largely based on the wonderful Kubrick that comes with WordPress. It has all the good stuff there already and I don’t see a need to rewrite the whole CSS to make things be original.

I called the layout ‘Lintfree’.

It is a rather strange name to have, it is not even in the dictionary. So what exactly is ‘lintfree’? Well, firstly, I will have to explain what is ‘lint’. In my favorite Longman dictionary, lint is soft light pieces of thread or wool that come off cotton, wool or other material. I view lint as the tiny little bits that come of tissue paper when you try to do cleaning. This can be a problem if you try to clean things like camera lens, it would seemed as if the more you clean, the messier it gets.

There is a special type of tissue paper called lint-free tissue paper. This special type of paper will not make your camera lens have tiny bits of white spots that the normal tissue paper would give. You can even wet the lint-free paper and click your lens and you just won’t get any lint on your lens. Personally, I use one of those for microscopes.

By calling this layout ‘lintfree’, I aim it to be neater, cleaner, more polished than the previous. And hopefully, like the lint-free paper, it wouldn’t leave lint around.

Read more about Lintfree.

I welcome criticism on Lintfree. Do tell me if you love it or hate it.

These are the statistics of the month April. This time is quite a shock because there is a significant increase of visitors from search engine and I know god-damn well why.

There are many people coming in to search for MSN winks. I can’t believe that simple word can attract so many people. This MSN winks page of mine is the most viewed page now, more than my RSS feed, with a viewership of 2142 times. The reason is due to the MSN search engine placing me right at the top in the past. Well, it dropped.

And visitors are coming into my web site looking for tits. Well… I did mention those nice tits I supposed. They are great looking tits according to the webmaster. [Hint: The tits aren't what you think they are.]

Top 20 keyphrases used on search engines (number of hits parenthesized):

# msn winks (637)
# msn winks download (108)
# winks msn (99)
# download msn winks (80)
# tits (67)
# winks (63)
# msn messenger winks (62)
# kung foo hustle trailer (52)
# winks for msn (51)
# nice tits (46)
# create winks (37)
# kung foo hustle (22)
# incredible popeman (22)
# nicetits (20)
# malaysia idol (19)
# create msn winks (18)
# winks for msn messenger (16)
# more msn winks (16)
# sylvester sim (16)
# japanese lyrics (14)

[View March keyphrases.]

I doubt that I will be achieving the same number of visitors the next month. The whole crazy MSN winks thing has ended. I received a significant visitor drop already. It’s kind of sad. I have to admit I love visitors (and commenters). Oh well…