{"id":10916,"date":"2007-11-16T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T09:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/16\/cyprus-web-sites-observation\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T12:53:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T09:53:40","slug":"cyprus-web-sites-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/16\/cyprus-web-sites-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus web sites observation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus web sites seem to be very sensitive about the weather.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the web sites have an “About Cyprus” page, which often says something along the lines of “Cyprus has more than 300 sunny days a year<\/em>“.\u00c2\u00a0 I do agree that Cyprus is pretty well covered with sunlight through out the year, but I wouldn’t go to any exact number of days.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 That thing is just marketing.<\/p>\n

But then, most of the same web sites have a weather forecast widget somewhere on sidebar.\u00c2\u00a0 What?\u00c2\u00a0 What for do you need one?\u00c2\u00a0 If it’s 300+ sunny days a year, the question of “What weather is it going to be today (or tomorrow)?” is not one of the frequently asked, is it?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like asking “Is it going to rain today?” in UK.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer is always “Yes”.<\/p>\n

And then, if you look closely on those weather forecast widgets and actually count the number of sunny days, you’ll get … what will you get?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus web sites seem to be very sensitive about the weather.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the web sites have an “About Cyprus” page, which often says something along the lines of “Cyprus has more than 300 sunny days a year“.\u00c2\u00a0 I do agree that Cyprus is pretty well covered with sunlight through out the year, but I … Continue reading Cyprus web sites observation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[525,1157],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-weather","tag-web-design"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10265,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/05\/weather-update-something-is-really-wrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":10916,"position":0},"title":"Weather update: something is really wrong","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"What? 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