The Next Window

Had a great family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. We had three generations, including both grandparents and all the kids and their wives (if married). Food was fantastic — fired turkey, spiral-sliced ham, oyster &amp; sausage dressing, sausage dressing, rolls, sweet potato casserole, green beans, corn souffle, pecan pie, birthday cake, homemade ice cream, and more.<br />
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I helped my brother with his computers and then finished setting up my mother-in-law's new machine. Lots of serious computer configuration, debugging and malware removal there. Observation — Gateway's setup was a lot more complete than Compaq's. The Compaq ran its own startup program for about 10 minutes on first boot, while the Gateway one's first boot was almost like a normal boot. <br />
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I brought home an old P166 that I had loaned to the MIL.

There was a post about HDTV tuner cards this morning on <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=82&amp;entry_id=23" title="http://www.slashdot.org" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.slashdot.org';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Slashdot</a>. I made one of the earliest followup comments, regarding why HDTV cards are available for off-the-air only and not for cable systems yet. I also pointed to my Home Theater PC articles on my web site.<br />
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WOW! As of 8:10pm (about 10.5 hours later), my website has had 3635 hits today, which is about 25 times normal. Most of the folks just looked, though. <br />
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Analysis — next day:<br />
Interesting numbers. Google Adsense reports 3,698 hits to the website yesterday. On the other hand, awstats at Powweb shows 717 visits, 1,957 pages viewed, and 7,708 hits. That's over double the number of hits reported by Google Adsense, despite having a google adbar on each web page. Hummmm…<br />
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Anyway, with all those visits, there were few clicks on Google ads on my website yesterday — looks like Slashdot readers don't click on Googles ads.

Just did the upgrade from 0.7b2 to 0.7. It went so smoothly that I thought I must have done something wrong.<br />
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New rule: If you want an upgrade to go smoothly, backup the mysql database and Serendipity files before hand. If you want an upgrade to crash and burn, don't back up. Murphy's Law.<br />
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Terry