I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.
— @joahua
A certain Mrs. Wendy Christie, on expressing dissonant views towards ‘canon of literature’ texts:
At PhD level you will be asked for your own opinion. Don’t do it before that.
Welcome to New South Wales, Australia mandated curriculum: Stifling creativity, freedom of expression, and independent thought since some time in the late twentieth century.
I just discovered that MySQL has a mathematical function called RAND(). It serves two purposes, one of which was relevant to me, the other is just nifty to know.
You can use RAND() as a random number generator (although it’s probably not terribly random) simply by using the syntax
SELECT RAND();
or with a seed value between the parentheses
SELECT RAND(1234);
or (and this is the cool one for me) like this
SELECT * FROM tbl_name ORDER BY RAND();
to retrieve results in a random order.
Nifty, hey?
More info can be found on the MySQL Reference Manual Mathematical Functions page
This month past has regrettably been one in which I haven’t spent enough time creating content, although March was fairly good, but the traffic didn’t really falter for it.
Unique: 2091
Visits: 4281
Pages: 14158
Hits: 44419
Bandwidth: 484.76 MB
Unique impressions are up by over 600 from last month, suggesting increased driven traffic (from external sites, search engines, etc., which accounted for 13.1% of total traffic, as opposed to incidental traffic – that is, regular visitors, syndication, etc.). Bandwidth is slightly up on March, exceeding 500MB if non-viewed statistics are included (there was 192.48 MB of non-viewed traffic, which means search engine spidering as well as certain syndication services I think), which is getting fairly sizeable I think, especially compared to last year’s statistics for this month (which aren’t really valid, because there was a holder page up then, but it’s fun to point out) — 2.38MB of traffic and 30 unique visitors!
The most popular post on this website remains the original DashLite announcement, although the updated version doesn’t really get a look in… which is okay, because it was released more out of social responsibility than any new need, and people can choose for themselves what they want.
See also:
February 2005 statistics
September/October 2004 statistics
June 2004 statistics
You’ve probably heard of spell- and grammar-checking, but this one is new to me!
Ah, Microsoft is trying to pluralise the establishment! Take that, monopoly conspiracy theorists! ;)
