WordPress was down but it’s back & with a random blog feature

WordPress.com was down for a good 15 or 20 minutes. After a while they got the main page up, but not any of the blogs they host. I wonder if this was the first time or more importantly, if it will be the last.

While it was down, they implemented a nice new feature. There is now a Next Blog link in the upper right corner, so if you are ever in the mood for a random blog, check out the Next Blog. Here is the official WordPress Blog Post.

When the site was down I got curious and checked out their listing on Netcraft. Apparently WordPress runs FreeBSD and LiteSpeed. I don’t have any experience with LiteSpeed (but since it’s free I’m definitely going to give it a try) but FreeBSD is super awesome. The more I find out about WordPress the more I like it.

in the big inning (gen. 1:1)

So I decided to combine my two blogs. simplyrandom and the new one have been combined into: the new one. Original, I know (I came up with it myself). The blog simplyrandom was:

mail + wordpress + tpfdljpg = random

Basically, I got a new e-mail account so I got a new wordpress account and I love surfing toothpaste for dinner’s live journal picture generator and it all culminates in randomness on my blog, simplyrandom. That is the simple part. I only posted three posts on that blog, all under the ’simple’ category. So I posted things in the ’simple’ category if they make sense to me. For example, a social commentary on the stupidity of Super Bowl XL, the 2006 State of the Union Address, or our contemporary economy and the reign of Alan Greenspan.

By combining these pages, the new one will be taking on a new twist. I have not completely decided where to go with it, but it will definitely go somewhere. the new one will may take a much more absurdist twist, I may take to changing the theme weekly, my commentaries will become much more criticalm, and (hopefully) I will update more often.

Lots of Random Hits

So I’ve happily been using this website for my own personal reference, not really expecting anyone to come look at it. WordPress is awesome and put in a whole bunch of stats on who visits my site. So for the first few days I got 2 or 3 hits a day, mostly people looking for Ray Nagin (the mayor of New Orleans) and someone ran across my entry The Egyptian Police Killing Sudanese Refugees. So then all of the sudden I get 18 hits today. Holy cow! What’s up with that? Apparently 8 people searched “jed moss” on technorati (the blog search engine) and my entry about the April Clayton Flute Concert (accompanied by Jed Moss) is the number 2 (of 2) result. Unfortunately the formatting on that entry didn’t work so well but luckily I did talk up how awesme Jed Moss is. I’m not sure if it’s even the same Jed Moss. The one everyone was looking for is a member of Air Supply (or he went to an Air Supply concert a couple days ago). This is what they’re really looking for. So 11 people visited my April Clayton review and one person visited my Only Angels Have Wings review. I’m guessing the other 6 just visited the main page of my blog. The Blog Stats also tells me who the referrer was, but I’m not sure its working perfectly yet. It says 7 people were referred by my site (so they just typed in the address, which I find highly unlikely) and 1 person came from anoter word press blog. The other 10 people fell through thre cracks (I’m guessing came from technorati). But this blog that referred someone to my site, all things grow, is the blog of some lady who’s travelled through Nashville, is engaged, has a 20 year old former-best friend, works at a restaurant, and wants to study anthropology. I have no clue who she is or how someone got from her blog to mine. Oh the mysteries. Well, to everyone who visited, thanks for visiting my blog. I’m pretty sure you didn’t find what you’re looking for. I’m not a particularly good news analyst or art critic yet and right now this blog is more for personal referrence. Have a great day!