01/03: Any increase may be good
I watch my web stats but have grave reservations as to whether they're worthwhile. Stats do not equal sales just as enquiries do not equal cold, hard cash. I suppose in a way, selling is like fishing. Put the product on display and wait for somebody to buy it.
Meanwhile, in the real world (a world totally devoid of statistical rubbish), one of the two mailbox door hinges disappeared. I looked into replacing it with a real hinge but found real hinges were $2.49 each and a replacement mailbox was $7.49. In the end, I spent neither. The mailbox door had a hole punched in it with folded metal as the pin of a very cheap hinge. The mailbox had a folded flap of steel threaded through that hole. The flap had fallen off totally - it was probably only glued on. I drilled a small hole into the mailbox to match the hole in the door and passed a plastic cable tie through. The door now works better than it has for ages and cable ties are pretty cheap. That was a low to no cost repair. It won't last very long but should last a few months before the tie needs to be replaced. I am loathe to throw out the mailbox as it was a wedding present which we only started to use after the lumberjacks demolished the box that came with the house.
Out of curiosity I looked to see where one of my hits was coming from. I had 54 from one webhost which turned out to be in Romania. That's very curious. I would have expected all my hits to come from the US. Even odder than that, looking at the list of pages from which people find my website, I'm seeing some very strange places. One is a forum for Sugar CRM. That seems to be some kind of software discussion forum and I'd never heard of the software before either. I looked at the site and did a site search but couldn't find the link. I wonder whether it's just the page last used by the user that's recorded. If that's the case, that explains why last month a Russian porno website was listed as the referring link. I guess some sad soul had been looking at porn before viewing my website. Yuck!
Work today was hard. Hours have been cut tremendously for the business. All paid holidays have been suspended. Some people aren't getting any hours at all. I'm one of the lucky few that is getting hours. Mind, I keep getting sales in, which right now probably means a lot.
Meanwhile, in the real world (a world totally devoid of statistical rubbish), one of the two mailbox door hinges disappeared. I looked into replacing it with a real hinge but found real hinges were $2.49 each and a replacement mailbox was $7.49. In the end, I spent neither. The mailbox door had a hole punched in it with folded metal as the pin of a very cheap hinge. The mailbox had a folded flap of steel threaded through that hole. The flap had fallen off totally - it was probably only glued on. I drilled a small hole into the mailbox to match the hole in the door and passed a plastic cable tie through. The door now works better than it has for ages and cable ties are pretty cheap. That was a low to no cost repair. It won't last very long but should last a few months before the tie needs to be replaced. I am loathe to throw out the mailbox as it was a wedding present which we only started to use after the lumberjacks demolished the box that came with the house.
Out of curiosity I looked to see where one of my hits was coming from. I had 54 from one webhost which turned out to be in Romania. That's very curious. I would have expected all my hits to come from the US. Even odder than that, looking at the list of pages from which people find my website, I'm seeing some very strange places. One is a forum for Sugar CRM. That seems to be some kind of software discussion forum and I'd never heard of the software before either. I looked at the site and did a site search but couldn't find the link. I wonder whether it's just the page last used by the user that's recorded. If that's the case, that explains why last month a Russian porno website was listed as the referring link. I guess some sad soul had been looking at porn before viewing my website. Yuck!
Work today was hard. Hours have been cut tremendously for the business. All paid holidays have been suspended. Some people aren't getting any hours at all. I'm one of the lucky few that is getting hours. Mind, I keep getting sales in, which right now probably means a lot.
