LarsonsWorld broke 100,000 visits today (well at least since 15 March 2006 when I started using sitemeter).

Hmm, just under 2 years - not bad for just another persons waste of time!  

Hey Internet Surfer,

If you happen upon this sight, I am trying to get the right div go all the way down to the bottom of this <div>. If you have any insight let me know.

Thanks.

css file

Some numbers from last year:

Posts to the blog:
425
(for comparison: 2006 - 200; 2005 - 249; 2004 - 305)

Sitemeter Numbers:
(the first complete year site wide for my Sitemeter account)
Visits: 48,278
Page Views: 165,575

The top entry pages are Circumventor and Circumventor Archive by far. After those two the only one that stands out month to month is Programs. Of course, during the month of July Tour De France and Cycling are pretty active.

Adsense Numbers:
Page Impressions: 39,926
Clicks: 269
Earnings: $41.68

At this rate, my website almost pays for itstelf every two years.

I have started a Flickr site for photos of mine. I have never found a photo album maker for GNU/Linux that I have really liked. I use to use Arles Image but, alas, it is not ported to GNU/Linux. Bummer!

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Have managed to upload most of my months allotment of photos. Now I'll just have to upgrade to the "pro" so I can have more than 3 sets. The current sets are Sunsets, Graphitti and Denver Winter 06/07.

We should not seek revenge on those who have committed crimes against us, or reply to their crimes with other crimes. We should reflect that by the law of karma, they are in danger of lowly and miserable lives to come, and that our duty to them, as to every being, is to help them to rise towards Nirvana, rather than let them sink to lower levels of rebirth.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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FYI: This is post #1000 - I've averaged 21.75 posts per month/.74 posts per day in the 1391 days since 4 October 2003.

I am playing around with changing from <table> to <div> and have found a few issues with IE. At this time this web site is best viewed with either Firefox or Opera. If you are using IE, this page doesn't view the way it is suppose to.

I have added Al Gore's SNL "Presidential Address" from the May 14th, 2006 show to the Video Gallery of LarsonsWorld.

Well at least until I get a note about copyright infringement on it.

The confusion has finally ended.

After much trial and error I have finally figured out how to get the font size the same across different browsers. I usually use Firefox and I have always wondered why the font size was smaller when viewing it as apposed to IE or Opera. Finally the cunuderum is over, it's all in the way you specify the size. I have been coding with CSS and have specifying the size using small, x-small ect. Well if you use pixels instead, such as 12px, magically the font size appears the same across the board.

Sweet!

I have added a few of interesting pieces to the Library:

Thomas D. Schauf: The Federal Reserve - Uncostitutional Money Regulation

Brent Scowcroft: Don't Attack Saddam - it would undermine our antiterror efforts

Joseph C. Wilson 4th: What I Didn't Find in Africa

Thanks to my man who has serious conspiracy issues for initially passing along the first two. The poor guy, this whole phone thing has him hiding under multiple layers of aluminum foil.  

For the past few days I have been pulling my hair out because the database Thingamablog uses was corrupted. I had looked online and in Thingamablogs Forum for answers to no avail. I was worried that I was going to loose the whole kit and kaboodle.

Bummer dude!

Luckily, I happened to check my backups from last week and found a good database to replace the corrupt one with.

So, a word of caution, it appears a few others out there have had the same problem, my best advice, backup your data. You never know when it might come in handy.

Spent a lot of time today getting the blog and archives valid with HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS through W3C. After many an hour I was finally able to and now on the the rest of the web site!

Yep, I changed up the look a little bit. New background with pages for the blog and archives.

I also spent a few hours today to get the blog to look about the same in IE, Opera and Firefox. IE and Opera are the same, but in Firefox the text is smaller. For some reason Firefox doesn't read CSS the same way as IE and Opera. Oh well.

** Update: 06/11/2005 **

Well, I have gone back to just plain color backgrounds. They just load faster.

My hosting service Fatcow finally gets their servers working again!

Sometime after 2:17 PM MDT yesterday all of Fatcow hosting service went down. It was so bad that not even their site was up. All the email sent to me since then is gone. It was just swallowed up by the deep, dark void of never-never land in cyberspace.

They where just sold to Endurance International and I hope this is not a sign of things to come.

-- Update --

At this time Fatcow's mail server is not working. I can log in but I am not able to send or receive any email. They must have either had a total system failure or they just moved everything to Endurance in Massachusetts and didn't say anything about it.

This sucks! Come on Fatcow, lets get this fixed!

-- More Info --

Read this thread on Google Groups

-- Update --

This morning at about 10:00 am I finally started receiving consistent email. So, we are looking at about 42 hours of down time all together on my email.

An interesting note: There has been no word from Fatcow about what happened. No emails or info on their site. Nothing.

Very Strange.

Out of utter boredom I have updated my cycling log with more info and even graphs of current stats. It's amazing what can be done in those times of sitting in front of the computer while doing nothing.

In by boredom I have creating a tracking log for visitors to this site. It is based on my private Extreme Tracking numbers and is almost site wide. Because of this, the numbers will be different that those for the numbers on the Extreme Tracking link towards the bottom of the right column, which only tracks the visitors to this main page.

Did you get all that? It just seemed confusing.

I added a little section with what old homepages I have. The first couple are from my old domain of www.pcsworldof.com and then the transition to www.larsonsworld.com and adding the blog.

It is probably boring, but I find them kind of interesting.

Old Homepages

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I commuted on the "Winter Bike", taking it out on it's shakedown rides. It is not a bad ride, but there are some issues.

The first and biggest problem, the chain comes off the sprocket and chainring after medium to big bumps (check out the laxness of the chain in the photo). Because the frame has vertical dropouts, I can not get the chain tight enough. I have ordered a Surly 1x1 Singleator. It is a rather spendy fix, but the only one short of getting a new frame.

Second, the frame is a tad large. I am going to have to purchase a shorter stem. The 100mm one is just a little to long. The measurement of my Sirrus from seat tip to the end of the stem is 20 1\8", the winter bike is 20 7\8". Now I realize that is just a mear 3\4 of an inch, but it stretches me out just a tad to much. I can't really use the bar ends and it is uncomfortable to slide back on the saddle when climbing hills.

I will hang with just getting the Singleator for now. Maybe in the near future I will replace the stem. Then, maybe, someday I will pick up a singlespeed frame. I figure, hey, I have almost every part I need now. Hmmm, a Surly 1x1 would be nice.

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By the way, I have revamped the cycling pages. A few new things have arrived.

I have added a slideshow of sunset photos I have taken recently.

I spent a lot of this weekend teaching myself cascading style sheets. In fact the blog now uses one.

I am having problems with Opera though. For some reason it is not fully reading the css file. At this point I have no idea why. Some of the classes for paragraphs work but others don't. Also, the body classes are not showing up. Thus, no background image nor Comic Sans font. I have no idea why other that Opera just doesn't read them yet.

I am unsure if Netscape can read the site properly or not.

Underconstruction, but viewable, is an area for Tour de France items. Currently there all the stage results from this year and photos from last year. I am organizing my collection of this years photos and that could take a week or so to get the pages built. I will be adding articles and quotes soon.

Tour de France Index

Changed the cycling blog to this. I just didn't feel like blogging there anymore.

I have changed the xml feed. If anyone out there is subscribed to it, please re-subscribe, if you wish.

It is a weekend of web site work, that's for sure.

My next rebuild is the old Cold Mountain area that I had not touched in a few years. It has been reincarnated as Taoism, Buddhism and Zen.

I have cleaned up the code on most of the pages and have updated the links. I will also be adding more content in the coming weeks. I just need to finish putting it all together, but I wanted to get the initial area up and running to find any problems.

Go check it out if you wish:
Taoism, Buddhism and Zen

After a long hiatus the editorial cartoon section has returned. I have kind of come up with a directory to break down the over 24MB of images I uploaded today. It is not perfect but it will work for the time being. There are no previews, just a listing in each directory, but I feel it was better that just a huge list of everything together.

When you have a few spare minutes go check it out:
Editorial Cartoons

:: Update ::

As of November 3rd, 2004 the Editorial Cartoon Blog is no longer being updated. It is still but I have just started adding editorial cartoons to my main blog. Check the Archives Index for the cartoons that have been added there.

This just in, Thingamablog is now able to do comments with Haloscan. So if you wish, leave your comments.

Hey, I'm feeling pretty smart now. I created and then figured out how to get my own 404 page working. The only problem is, it was really easy to do and know I feel kind of stupid. Doh!

Yo, I have added a Video Gallery to the web site. Since I now have 500 mb of space to take up on FatCow Hosting I might as well start filling it up with more useless stuff.
Included is:

S-11 Redux: (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse
Produced and Directed by Stephen Marshall
Distributed by Guerrilla News Network
12 minutes
2002

Culled from over 20 hours of television footage recorded over a one month period and across 13 networks, S-11 Redux is a sound-bite blitzkrieg that challenges the messages we have been fed from our mainstream media and the government it serves. Be warned - this video moves quickly and will require at least two viewings to digest its full impact. You may never be able to look at the coverage of S-11 and its post-impact coverage the same way, ever again.

Did a little streamlining on this page today. Took out some of the many, many gif images that where buttons for links and replaced them with typed links. I found after being at some folks places who had dial ups and other slower connections this page was taking a long, long time to load. I also realigned and moved some things around.

Can't get to complacent, must keep changing.

I added a couple new pages to the library yesterday:
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy and
Deep Thoughts by Kids
Check them out if and when you get time and I hope you enjoy.

Laters, Pedro

Created a cycling slideshow from the few pictures I took this summer. - Keep Pedalin'

Well, I have sitting on my ass doing nothing as of late so I figured I might as well go through all the pictures I have from my 40th birthday and create a slideshow. So, here it is:

Pedros 40th - The Slideshow

Hope you enjoy, Peter

Yo!
The photos are finally coming in from my 40th birthday and a chosen few are being added to the Photo Gallery. There will be more on there way soon along with photos from All Hallows Eve.
I have also added a few new photos to the Kremmling 2003 collection and once I get some slides put onto disk I add even more :)
Hope you enjoy them

Well, it has been a few days and nothing exciting has happened - At least nothing that I can think of! I will be sitting down today and going through all the info I have collected this week and try to post a few items.

I have done a few things to the web site:

• I have finally started my cycling page - Go
• I have made a list of my RSS Subscriptions - If you are interested - Go
• I have uploaded most of my collection of Editorial Cartoons - It is just a list that links to them - Go

And that is about all for now. Hopefully I will have another post of interesting stuff (at least to me) here soon.

Later

Well, I think I have done all that I can today with the web site. I have updated this page along with the Avalanche Schedule & Programs I Use pages. It pretty satisfied right now, but feel there is some more work to be done here, there and everywhere. Now it is time to help break down the yard sale, get some food and take a nap!

Hopefully tomorrow, or even later on today, I wil go through and catch up on all the items from around the internet I want to post that I haven't gotten to these past few days. You probably don't want to hold your breath though, as you will probably turn blue if you do ;)

If you are looking for something that has not made it onto this page yet, here is the old home page
Old Homepage
Later