I was asked the other day if I knew how many people read my bLog here … I don’t … But I immediately thought I could look at the web logs and see who actually is reading this stuff … Then I thought again, maybe I don’t want to know?
I do know this … it’s spidered … after all, it’s on the ‘net … I know it’s spidered cause I get a bunch of comment spam all the time … So, I know that people that I don’t necessarily want to know of this site’s existence do know … How do they know? Through automated scripts that use those spiders that have an index of me …
I realized the other day when creating the project page that I don’t have my email address on here anywhere … I recall typing ‘contact me at my web site’ and that’s when I realized it … Then I thought, I don’t want to post an email address on the page judging from all the comment spam, I don’t want to introduce another window for spam … spam just sucks …
So, in the end, I probably won’t ever look at the logs cause that takes time … I only know of the people that read this because of the people that told me that they read this … I can only imagine that people here and there drop by because of a search … I do cover a lot of topics here … I have received comments in the past that were valid comments, and I didn’t know the author of those comments … Specifically my post about me not being a trucker, but I drive a truck on the weekends …
I also realize that I type very long posts … I dont try to, it’s just my way … Recently when emailing people from the band, it came to my attention that the length in which I describe something just totally lost them … So I have been working on getting to the point and leaving my actual thoughts out of it … This is difficult, but I guess I have to realize I’m dealing with musicians … Which is tough for me, cause I am a musician myself … So I don’t comprehend it … (Funny, most of the people I went to computer school with were musicians … We could have formed a band … I did in fact get together with one of the guys I went to school with, and we wrote some originals and even put one on a record … AVAP Sampler Volume 2 if you can find it.) …
Anyway … enough about me … let’s talk about my wife … When I was asked who read this bLog, I mentioned that my wife didn’t even read it … and I still don’t think she does … She mentioned that she would … There is a computer available for the family’s use … I have all the switch ports monitored for bandwidth, and I can tell if the thing was used whenever … I once baffled my child in that I told him that he used the computer while I was gone the previous night, and he didn’t know how I knew … Well, that’s how … I don’t look at it all the time … Was just probably something I saw at the time and I mentioned it and it freaked him … cool! .. hehe … It’s good to keep your kids on their toes … and beat them whenever you can (a post from a long time ago) …
So, the reason I post and don’t care about who reads it is that it’s here for me … I can go back on this whenever and see what was going on at whatever time, and what was spewing from my brain at that time … See what crap I was filling my site up with … Interesting to see my change of opinions over time, etc … It’s my vent … It’s where I go to complain or praise something that’s going on at the time … I share it publicly cause someone may benefit from it … Others may just find it a waste of time … Either that, or they will become engrossed in my writings and spend hours making sure they’re up to date on the latest and greatest and monitor for new posts … That would mean that I’m like a rock star … The President … a movie star! Yes! This would be the best thing ever, wouldn’t it? Bah! It’s probably time I stopped typing in here enlarging my ego and started making some money … Back to work …
Mr. Pierron,
I came across your website after searching google for “AVAP sampler.” I was also in a band that recorded a track for an AVAP sampler, and I’m almost positive it was on volume two. My copy has since been lost in the abyss of past time. If you should happen to come across a copy and wouldn’t mind making some sort of copy, I would greatly appreicate it and would be willing to compensate you for the postage etc. From your “if you can find it” comment about this record, I realize this may be a longshot, but I figured I’d give it a try. The band was called “Primary Force” and our track was “Somnombulism.”
Thanks.
Michael Russo