Year: 2006

Once in a while I go to Technorait to check my profile. Most of my blogs are at the bottom of the rating lists. And that’s understandable – I haven’t devoted that much to them recently.

The only blog that stands out is this one. People read it and link to it, and it’s score is much higher in return.

And was almost happy, clicking around to check the incoming and outgoing lists, this and that. And then I noticed that Technorati thinks that my blog was last updated 100 days ago. I am puzzled. My blog is definetely much fresher. My longest blogging interval was by far shorter than a week. Way shorter than 100 days.

It looks like Technorati is lagging behind. I wonder if I am the only one here. I also wonder how this lag affects the ratings and data about inbound links. Those things I am interested in, and I’d very much like to have them accurate.

With all Flickr‘s flexibility and easy of use, there’s one thing that really bothers me. In short it can be summed up as “Where are all these people coming from?”. Case in point: this picture of Lev burried in sand on the beach has been viewed (according to Flickr) almost 3500 times, since it was posted on March 16, 2006. To give you an idea, the next most viewed image has been seen less than 800 times. So, there is almost 4 times difference. And what bugs me the most is that I don’t know where are all these people coming from.

Has this image been linked from somewhere? Did someone wrote a post about it in blog or forum? I want to know. I don’t want to have full access to all the logs, but something to give me an idea would have been so much appreciated. Something along the lines of “This picture is mostly visited from forum XYZ, website ABC, and blog KLM”. That would have been enough.

I’ve tried Googling for the link to this image, but because Flickr has a few different URL structures, I didn’t find anything. Maybe you guys can help me out with this.

P.S.: It doesn’t bother me that someone is using this picture, even if they do so for commercial purposes. I’m fine with that. What annoys me is that I know for sure that this picture is used somewhere and I don’t have any freaking idea where.

I came across Pay Per Post via this post in Michael Affronti blog. I felt both sceptical and excited at the same time, so I went to check it out.

This diagram clearly explains how the whole thing works. It looks pretty fair. There’s even a list of current opportunities. The prices are between $5 and $10 USD. The topics look interesting. In fact, they looked so interesting that I thought I should try it out.

Unfortunately, it seems that only USA bloggers are supported currently. Maybe not. I saw that the registration form asks for the address, and doesn’t have any choice of countries, only states. So, I stopped there. Too bad.

Hopefully, they’ll expand this service to worldwise. Blogosphere is way beyond the USA. And PayPal, which they are using for payments, is working further than the USA too. I guess, we’ll have to wait. But still, it’s nice to see that people are working in that direction.

We couldn’t for the heck of it decide what to do. My mother was a bit tired after the beach. My brother wasn’t too active after his shopping. And I was almost dead after the gym. So it was a good thing for Vladimir to pop up and take control of the situation.

We went to Pafos.

First, we visited the Pafos Aquarium. We all have been there before, but it’s that sort of place that you feel like re-visiting once in a while. I was surprised to see that there were some changes since the last time we were there. Some fish were moved to different watertanks. A couple of new ones added. And little touches were noticable here and there.

Then we took a short walk around the tourist area. It was during the time of Engand-Portugal football match. All the pubs (and mean all the pubs, except that one small and empty place with Greek music) were covered in English flags and were filled with English (and not only English) people. They were cheering and drinking loads of beer. Overall, a very nice atmosphere. Too bad I don’t care about football.

We wanted to sit down somewhere and have a cup of coffee or a soft drink. But it was obvious that unless we were ready to participate in football watching and cheering, we’d have to go somewhere else. And so we did.

Pafor marina is one of my favourite places over there. It’s good for a short walk. There is water. There are boats. There are people. There are caffes. There’s calm and kind feeling about it all.

We decided to have a drink at one of the caffes. Interestingly, things are so packed down there that two neighbor caffes are almos indestinguishable. They use the same furniture, and their tables are too close to one another’s. In order to bring some clarity into it, waiters of one caffe are wearing bright blue t-shirts, while waiters of another – bright orange. Fun.

After the beers, coffees, and juices, we did some more walking and talking, and then returned back to Limassol. Overall we had some good time. We should do it more often…