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Web traffic from image searches

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Checking the stats of the blog for the last 3 months, I noticed that the posts with more pageviews are referred from image searches. The images are from Salma Hayek in Ugly Betty, illustrations of Nathan Petrelli and Nikki from the Heroes TV Series, a test post for uploading images with the image of a Singapore girl, and a solar flare.

Why those images generate significant traffic?, I don’t know the answer but my guesses are:

  • A lot of guys still have a crush with Salma Hayek even after his pregnancy, which is perfectly understandable.
  • The second season of Heroes is premiering in other countries.
  • I really don’t have an explanation to the picture of the girl and the solar flare.

Other post that generated some traffic is the papercraft model of Master Chief. I assume that the traffic of this post is because the popularity of the Halo series for the Xbox 360.

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Applying CPR to this blog

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Photo by Jackson Boyle

Again several WEEKS passed without a new post in this blog.

Why?, well the main reason is procrastination, if we add to that the number of feeds on my google reader account, Digg, Techmeme, my day job, research for my projects and the time spent stuck on Mexico city traffic that would be a good excuse for not posting.

Everyday by the time I finished reading the most interesting stuff, I have some ideas for a good blog post. But I need to justify my paycheck so have to work in the stuff I was hired to do, so I write some ideas on Google Documents, make a mental note, a bookmark, or post something on my Tumblr. By the time I get home I work a little on my side projects, then do some research and suddenly it’s midnight and another day has passed without posting on the blog.

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Multilanguage blog

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Recently I was talking (well, it was a chat) with a friend about the content of my blog which is primarily in Spanish and he was asking if there is a plugin or something to translate the content to English. I got interested in finding a way to implement a multilanguage blog, the easiest way in the technical side would have been to create another blog in a subdomain or other domain and start doing it in English but that implied maintaining 2 separate sites and I want a single database and upload images or files just to one location.

Since this blog is powered by Mephisto the solution had to be written in ruby and one of the benefits or the Ruby language is that is really easy to implement solutions to most of the things you want or need and if you add to that the community of Rails developers you get the equivalent of the support that WordPress has, in the sense that almost everything you need in a blog is already done or is being developed by someone who has the same need as you.

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Network outage

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Casi no posteo en el blog y cuando tengo varias cosas para escribir resulta que a Dreamhost se le ocurre fallar.. =(


6:47PM PST March 28th 2007
We just had a drop in out network for about half our servers.. if you can't access your site or email now, please hold on.. we are looking into it and will update this page as soon as we have more details..

7:15PM PST

We’re still actively trying to diagnose and fix the problem.. it seems to possibly be a physical problem with one of the fiber cables between two of our data centers. We’ll post further updates here as we progress. Thank you very much for your patience and we apologize for the downtime this is causing.

7:20PM PST

Scratch that.. it turned out to be a failure in one of our 10 gigabit network interfaces. We’ve swapped it out for a spare one and thing seem to be working now.. there may be some residual problems where some servers need to be rebooted, however the root cause of the problem is fixed. Please let us know if you are still experiencing any downtime.
Our apologies again..

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Nuevo Tema

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Pues ya me habia aburrido el diseño de este blog y decidi convertir un tema de wordpress para poderlo usar aquí. La conversión no me llevo mucho tiempo y el resultado es una mejora con respecto al anterior diseño.

Hay algunos detalles que quiero arreglar, pero son menores.

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