2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,500 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 20 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 69 posts. There were 38 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 4mb. That’s about 3 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was April 27th with 95 views. The most popular post that day was JNOS – 15 years later.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were ka3drr.blogspot.com, issfanclub.com, wb5rmg.somenet.net, tips-tools-tutorials.com, and wa4nzd.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for wb8elk, ft-8800r, ft-8800, wb5rmg, and mfj 1278.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

JNOS – 15 years later November 2009
6 comments

2

FT-8800 mobile June 2009
1 comment

3

MFJ-1278 returns to 145.010 November 2009
1 comment

4

WB8ELK flying this weekend March 2010
2 comments

5

Seen any Red Balloons ? December 2009
1 comment

N4OFA :: New Blog

Mike has a new blog. OK, so I’ve helped him get it started – I’m sure he will be adding more stuff as it becomes more familiar to him. I kicked it off with a post detailing a soundcard interface that I built into an Altoids tin box. This is a simple to make, easy to use gadget to connect your radios with your computers for digital messaging… You have heard of APRS ? Winlink ? PSK-31 ? There is a lot more – and this little thingy can get you going quickly.

N4OFA's new blog - click here

Go check it out, and save a bookmark (or a Favorite if you use IE)…
Mike will surely have some good stuff here.
73 for now /;^)

web publishing made easy

Seems pretty easy these days to add an interesting link to my website… Using the WordPress widget that shows most recent updates from my Twitter feed in the sidebar – all I have to do is ‘Re-Tweet’ something and it automatically shows up on the web site !

How could anything be any easier ?

Of course, as I post more updates – the interesting link scrolls down and off the screen. But then so many links lose their relevancy as time passes anyway, so no great loss – right ?
/;^)

another post

Least we forget this site’s humble beginnings, I’ll post a link early on to the original wb5rmg.somenet.net website. With these modern widgets and features, I don’t even have to post a pic of what the site looks like – cause now you can hover the mouse pointer over a link, and get a preview pic – izzat cool or what ?

I will still use the old site for detail pages, and stuff that requires keyboard command-line hacking – all the old stuff is still there… raw html pages – some created with VI editor, others by KompoZer. This is basically just to give the ham-radio stuff it’s own blog forum. My other SomeNet Blog will still be there as well – whether it is a self-installed WordPress, or on wordpress.com – just with less ham-radio stuff.

It will be a bit of a challenge, learning to use the reduced feature set available on this shared server. Most of the tools work the same, and the newer versions have more built-in features – so hopefully I’ll need less of the custom hacks that I used to rely on. I’ll really miss the random-rotation feature I had worked up for the header image tho, but this one combines many elements in an attempt to touch on the many different subjects. I probably will not try to bring over old content, so that I can focus on moving forward. Please check either of the two earlier mentioned SomeNet sites for anything published before May 2009.

Thanks /;^)