My thoughts and whatever about random topics.
…is not necessarily the route you’d think. At least according to msn. The shortest route may be slightly different, too.
Still – I think I take my chances picking my own route. Why? Go to http://mappoint.msn.com/DirectionsFind.aspx and try the following travel routes:
The Daily Irrelevant for this. Virtual travelling turned fun 🙂
Some fossils of a couple of mammals in China provides the world with a surprise: The last meal of the smallest of them was a dinosaur. A small dinosaur, and not fully grown, but still a dinosaur.
This means that the view currently being held, that mammals at the time of dinosaurs were small creatures the size of mice, must be reviewed. Obviously. The smaller of the mammals – Repenomamus robustus – was the size of a cat, while the larger one – Repenomamus giganticus – was the size of a dog. Read more of the details around this in Wired, The New York Times article and opinion.
The fascinating thing is when you start thinking about what this means: Unless we ditch evolution in favour of creationism, these mammals must have evolved from smaller creatures – and I don’t think it’s very probable that the result of this produced only these two species. What more can be found? Also, it doesn’t take a very bright brain to realise mammals of at least this size coexisted with dinosaurs. I say ‘at least this size’, because up until this it was “well known” that the largest mammals coexisting with dinosaurs were the size of mice – who is to say we won’t find proof even lager mammals lived at that time, too?
Then I wonder – since we now know large mammals lived in the time of dinosaurs – can we be sure that the dating we have of fossils of mammals that size and smaller really are correct? Are all mammals previously believed to be from the time after the dinosaurs really are from such a late period? I may be going out on a limb here with wild speculations, but I would find it stranger if these two mammals were the only one found living in this period – and the dating game isn’t an exact science, that much I’ve read earlier.
In any case, it will be interesting to read more of this – if anyone have further links or more to ponder, please let me know.
I have often told people about the virtues of browsers other than IE, not only due to the extra features and support for standards they offer (as opposed to IE) but also due to all the security risks present in that aged browser.
For some it has worked, for others – well, they don’t seem to care enogh. Even if they’re among those who complain over browser hijacking and all sorts of problems.
If the reason for this is the lack of articles I can support them with at the moment, maybe the following site can be of help? Digital Proof – Fuel for the fire. An easy to remember URL, at least. Hopefully links to new articles will be added as they’re written. And hopefully people will take a hint… 😉
Want to predict the future of anything you wonder at? Here it is, the prediction calculator!
Want to predict the future of anything you wonder at? Here it is, the prediction calculator!
Funny – I have a long time thought that I should do this; make it easy to just type in the question you have and have the numerological treatment automated and present the answer just like that. And all it took was to mention it in my blog. Maybe there is anything more I should mention?
Anyway, for those interested in the method behind it all, you can read about numerology here.
When will I marry? Who will I marry? Will I lose my hair?
People come to my site after searching for how to tell the future, and while here, some try to find the answer to their more personal questions. I can’t really help them there by providing the straight answer, but maybe I can help by automating the calculations for those who would like to use the numerology method in their quest for answers?
Hmmm…
…when I looked at the statistics of my site, and how the browser stats have changed during the four months I’ve been with my current host, I’m a bit happy. True – it’s only telling anything about the visits to my own site, but that’s the one important to me. I also could have taken into account various sources that may skew the numbers this way or that way – but I don’t bother too much about that either. I’m not looking at getting the exact numbers as much as how the numbers change – and that’s what I’m looking at here:
| September | October | November | December | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Explorer | 80,5% | 81,9% | 76,4% | 74,2% |
| Opera | 2,2% | 3,0% | 4,9% | 8,3% |
| FireFox | – | 2,6% | 6,0% | 5,6% |
| Mozilla | 6,6% | 4,1% | 1,5% | 3,0% |
| Safari | 1,4% | 1,4% | 1,9% | 1,9% |
| Netscape | 2,1% | 2,1% | 3,6% | 1,3% |
| Konqueror | 0,8% | 0,3% | 0,4% | 0,2% |
It’s fun to see Opera and Firefox making such strides forward, and Internet Explorer losing terrain – especially since my site isn’t one which should be of a kind that attracts people interested in using standard adhering browsers over IE users. So far in January Opera and FireFox is both between 6 and 7% – it will be fun to see how this will develop in the time ahead. Hopefully, more and more will use modern browsers and drop the dinosaur.
It’s not actually Rocky (you know, with Sylvester Stallone) but still – there is something that reminds me of the film. Wonder why…
With the amount of phishing attempts in the mailbox every day, trying to get to you – how aware are you of how the phishers try to hook you and reel in your sensitive data?
One way to find out, is to take the MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test
OK, I have to say this at once: It’s not me who found this site – it was two girls.
Wonder what they were searching for when they found Penisland. Naughty girls…?
You link to me, I link to you – that will bring us both more traffic. An easy thing to do, and it works – if it’s done right.
To just accept any request for a reciprocal link, no matter from where, is not the way to go. You need to keep the links to other sites in your own niche, so that they will not only provide your visitors with interesting places to visit, but also make your own site a valuable place to visit. The bonus is of course the traffic from the other sites, and that search engines will look at your site as more relevant – but keeping your links to relevant sites may also open for a closer cooperation with those sites.
All this is material for many articles, but the task of finding good sites with content related to your own, and then take contact with the owners and convince them to make a reciprocal link (and that you’re not just one of the spammers who tries this aimlessly) is a daunting task. Or is it? I just found a site – Links-For-You.com – that claims to make this task much easier, by arrange contact between serious participants interested in reciprocal linking within their own niches. It may work – I’ll have to look closer into it myself, too. 😉