Being able to track your web statistics is important for commercial sites. For personal sites it may not be as important, but it still nice to know where people are coming from and what they are looking for. There are a number of open source log analysers that work with Apache, however my preferred choice is Awstats. … [Read more...] about Configuring Awstats with Apache 2 on Ubuntu
Keeping track of adsense
Keeping track of your adsense performance can be a daunting task, even though Google have made some serious improvements to the UI of their publisher centre. Even using the more advanced reports it is not possible to see which ads on which pages are generating income and which ones aren't. A couple of months ago Adsenselogger was released. … [Read more...] about Keeping track of adsense
Net Awards Wars?
I mentioned recently that the Netvisionaries had been launched officially. It transpires that the Golden Spiders intend to run their "awards" on the same evening. Although I would like to think that the Irish 'net industry is vibrant I would be either naive or foolish to think that you could run two award ceremonies on the same night. Then again the Golden Spiders aren't … [Read more...] about Net Awards Wars?
Reading Mania
I'm currently going through one of my reading phases, which means that I get very upset if I don't have at least one novel to read after the one I'm currently reading. You can usually find me reading two or three books concurrently. One or two would be "work related" ie. not novels, while the third one is usually a fairly light novel. … [Read more...] about Reading Mania
Rain puts indian registry under pressure
According to a bulletin from Directi: "Heavy rains and flooding in Mumbai, India has damaged the .IN Registry's Name Servers. This has hampered DNS propagation, with the result that your Customers' .IN domain names might not resolve to their websites for the time being." … [Read more...] about Rain puts indian registry under pressure