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So I am impressed.

Recently my ISP (IX WebHosting) informed me that they were upgrading the server to newer versions of MySQL, PHP, Apache etc. Now normally these things don’t phase me, as this blog is purely for my own amusement. In other words, if something goes wrong, no harm done. I have backups. I don’t mind redoing things.

But I need not have feared. Even though IP Addresses, hostnames and all other things have changed, everything is working. I didn’t have to change or reconfigure anything. They did everything for me.

I am very, very impressed.

So I got Google Analytics installed. This was a fairly painless excercise. First I installed the WordPress Google Analytics Plugin. Configuring it was trivial, since I already had a Google account, though I had to enter the UA code manually. For some reason I couldn’t get Google to “trust” the request from my site. Anyways, no real harm done – don’t mind cut and pasting a value from the Google Analytics sign up page onto the wordpress plugin configuration screen.

The next day, I log into Google Analytics and I’m presented with this pretty graph:

Can’t say I am completely surprised by this. Actually, I am not at all surprised by this. Why would someone read this site? Granted it was only a day, so there is hope. A vain hope. A futile hope. But hope nonetheless. A better question is of course if I categorically know that no-one ever reads this site, why do I persist in writing on it? This is surely the equivalent of writing out mini essays on post-it notes and then throwing them out the window. From an airplane. Flying over the ocean.

Maybe I should add my posts to my Tweets (since I’ve done…52 since 2008) I am sure I will dazzle my 12 followers (most of them bots I’m sure) with my brilliance.

I suppose I could catch some unwary people off-guard by posting a link on Facebook…

Ok so mobile posting worked previously. So now I start playing with plugins. Obviously I will sooner or later install a plugin that will render this blog inoperable – but for now it still works. And.. apparently, my new Jetpack plugin allows for latex. Which theoretically allows me to type:

Yay. That worked. In Firefox. Will test in Chrome. Won’t bother with IE. None of my readers have IE.