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More interesting stats

Since the beginning of this year, 20% of visitors arriving at my site via search engines are finding “borat quotes” – 21 313 visits, to be precise, which excludes variations of the phrase (“quotes from borat”, “borat expressions”, etc). Google has me ranked second for the search phrase, for content I added over 2 years ago.My daily traffic … view full post

 

digicam.coza Stats

Clicking through my Thunderbird folders that collect filtered, low priority messages (which I check on an irregular basis), I discovered the following: since the beginning of last month I’ve received 350 Account Activation requests via digicam.coza. All of them from spammers. This after deleting over 1000 spam … view full post

 

Random factoid for the day

According to NationMaster, the United States spends more money on its military than the next 12 nations combined. But then again, they also say that South African men work only 4.5 hours a day. Pah! … view full post

 

An image is worth a thousand words. A word is worth a thousand images.

Via ThisIsLondon:

In response to the question ‘Is this the right time for President Bush to visit the UK?’, 65 per cent of 1,000 voters answered no, while

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Fun fact for the week

The Top 20 search strings (of a total 1489) used to access the Rhodes University website include the following: “eminem”, “arabgirls”, “lara.croft”, “jenny wright” and “Mytilus galloprovincialis”.

 

35th for alcohol consumption

The latest statistics compiled by the South African Wine Industry Information and Systems (SAWIT) show that South Africa ranks 35th in the world in total consumption of alcohol.

We’re ranked 40th for spirits (1 litre/year), 22nd for beer (58,7 litres/year) and 34th in terms of wine consumption (6,8 litres/year). Read … view full post