New Visitor Map!!

So I found a new visitor map widget for my site. This one uses the Google Maps for viewing and exploring. It shows where it thinks you are and if you click it, it shows all the recent visitors. I always like to know where people come from (and maps, I like maps). How close does it show you to where you think you are?!?

It seems like it just counts each visitor (or IP?) once, so that's good, it takes about a half day to update the chart but I think your location is always correct.

The image in this post is “static”. To see the “live” image look in the footer of any page.

I got this from here. It's set up as a myspace tool but it looks like it'll work fine if you just copy the image and the link.

I originally didn't think this was working but I guess it just took a few hours to kick in (I had actually removed the post and had to repost it).

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Posted by Gary on Sunday at 2:27 PM on October 22, 2006.
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There is (are?) 40 of me in the US

So I've seen web sites where they tell you how popular your first or last name is. This is the first on that I've seen that tells you how unique your full name is.

How Many Of Me.com

There are: 40 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

What I don't like about this is it sticks with the number I'm given today. If their list changes it doesn't make another calculation query to the list. But how many more can there be like me?!?

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Posted by Gary on Sunday at 4:49 PM on October 22, 2006.
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PopUps anyone?

So I think I've removed the side widget that was causing popups. I haven't gotten many complaints (I think since even the most basic blockers stop it, I've never even noticed it with Safari) but it annoyed me that it was there. I don't think that web link exchange widget (link2blogs.com) was generating much traffic anyways.

If anyone is still getting me popups, please let me know.

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Posted by Gary on Sunday at 5:00 PM on October 22, 2006.
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Bittersweet Cafe

I know I've mentioned Audra Kubat before. Every other Sunday Audra and Blair have been playing at the Buzz bar in Detroit doing a thing they call the Bittersweet Cafe.

It's pretty quiet this week with the World Series on, pretty much I was the first person here for the music. But since there really isn't anyone else here she was working on this extended tune up / warm up and it was really nice to listen to and watch as a few other people have walked in. Nice and easy and casual and relaxing.

So they do this show every few weeks and have a different guest play in the middle every time. They then “pass the hat” and chip in money for the guest and all the money collected goes to the guest (there is no cover to get in).

(A FEW MINUTES LATER: What's funny is she just stopped and said how much she likes to have time to play before she actually has to play.)

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Posted by Gary on Sunday at 9:22 PM on October 22, 2006.
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