The Stats of 100,000 Page-Views. And Thank-You All!

The page-view counter rolled over the 100,000 mark at around 11:30am this morning AEST. It almost happened without my noticing, to be honest. Life has been a little hectic with;

Study- I've got two classes on Tuesdays and I've added an online class as well. I'm a little dubious about it, since it requires me to work at my own (glacial) pace and it will require me to exercise some discipline as well. One of my other subjects is Cataloging and it involves the way library records are set out.
Here's an example- Let's say I need to write out a catalogue record for this Bond novel;



The standard layout for the record would be set out like this;

Octopussy and the living daylights/ Ian Fleming.
Edition: First Edition
London : Jonathan Cape, 1966.

All the relevant information listed above is taken from the front (Recto) and back (Verso) of the title page inside the book. 

Seems easy enough, you say. And I would agree. Now, in the wonderful age of computers, a catalogue record, like the one above, would have been printed on a card to be filed away in one of these gorgeous wooden filing cabinets...

 

 
Picture courtesy of Ryan Lane/iStock. Taken from www.countryliving.com
















However, these days, everything's been converted to digital. Catalogue records have to be able to be read by a computer program. And these are known as MaRC2 or Machine Readable Catalogue Records, Version 2.

So, the Bond hardcover's MaRC2 record HAS to look like this;

245   $aOctopussy and the living daylights /$cIan Fleming.
264   $aLondon : $bJonathan Cape, $c1966.

Every number, every dollar sign, every colon, every space, every full stop (period.) has to be in its proper place or the computer program will not recognise the catalogue record. Which is fine if you're a computer, but if you're just some schmuck with a pen and paper (i.e.-me), then you can find yourself in a world of hurt pretty quickly when trying to write these out by hand.
And the good news is that I have a 90 minute test on this tomorrow morning! I'm so tempted to write that classic line; "By the time you read this, I will be dead", but I've done a few revision exercises and this will be an open-book test.
And yet, I'm still a little apprehensive about it. Gotta get 70% to pass.

Anyway, to the subject of this post. One hundred thousand page-views. First of all, thank-you very much to all of you who have visited this blog more than once. That would imply that I've done something right. I basically wanted to write about the things that I was interested in myself.

It almost goes without saying, but that Tissot Visodate review is still the most-viewed post on this blog by a very wide margin. Although, in its original location on a wristwatch forum, it's done a lot of mileage since I first posted it up in October 2010. Man, if I had a dollar for every...

 

It's a great wristwatch, without a doubt, but I'm amazed that there's still so much interest in this watch considering that it's been on the market for three and a half years. You'd think that Tissot would give me a 'hoy' to say thanks. But nooo! They never call, they never write.

MOST VIEWED POSTS

1) Tissot Visodate 1957 Heritage Automatic- REVIEW       14,194 pageviews
2) How To Buy A Wristwatch: Part 2- The Dive Watch         3,140 pageviews
3) How To Buy A Wristwatch: Part 1- The Dress Watch        3,042 pageviews
4) Longines Expeditions Polaires Francaises
    Re-Edition- REVIEW                                                          2,978 pageviews
5) Omega Railmaster Co-Axial Automatic
    (36.2mm) -REVIEW                                                            2,054 pageviews


BUSIEST MONTH - June 2013   9,375 views


MOST VIEWED TYPEWRITER POSTS

1) Imperial Good Companion 5  (circa 1958)                           2,127 pageviews
2) Olympia Splendid 99   (circa 1960)                                      1,330 pageviews
3) Olympia SM2  (circa 1951)                                                     965 pageviews
4) Olivetti Lettera 32  (1960s?, Made in Ivrea, Italy)                  949 pageviews
5) Olivetti Lettera 32 (purchased new, 1982, Made in Spain)     844 pageviews
6) Remington Remette (circa 1938)                                             820 pageviews
7) Groma Kolibri  (circa 1958)                                                    618 pageviews

PAGEVIEWS BY BROWSERS

Internet Explorer    27%
Firefox                    23%
Safari                      22%
Chrome                  18%
Opera                       4%
Other               Less than 1%

KEYWORD SEARCHES

tissot visodate review           564
tissot visodate                       188
olivetti lettera 32                   141
omega speedmaster                 82
groma kolibri                           61

And there you have it. No real big changes since my first check after 50,000 pageviews. The Imperial Good Companion post overtook the Olympia Splendid 99 as far as views are concerned. The Browser stats are pretty much the same as they were at the half-way mark.
 I've received 803 comments from you wonderful people out there on the World Wide Web, out in The Typosphere and beyond, and I've received countless spam comments from websites selling fake Rolexes and Louis Vuitton handbags, and links to some shady websites. To them, I say 'go to hell!'.

To the rest of you, I say 'thanks' for visiting this blog! I may lay low for a while as I tackle the adjustment to a slightly more hectic study schedule while continuing to look for a part-time job as I attempt to continue writing the two or three film scripts that I've started this year.
I really, really need to get a little more organised.
Ah well, the struggle is the glory, as they say.

Thanks again, all, and thanks for reading!


                                          

This Blog Is Two Years Old!

Another attempt at a letterhead. Or is it a footer?

Here's the Olivetti Lettera 32 photographed with the 'Dramatic' filter setting. 

 

Here's the first issue of 'Premiere' magazine that I bought in April 1990.

And here's the last issue from April 2007 when this great magazine folded. And I had every issue in between.

The Lettera 32 was my first typewriter. This Olympia SM9 is my latest. I had to wrap up this post as soon as the sun began to shine. There was a fence outside that needed painting.

And the same picture again with the filter set to 'Key Line' to make it look nifty and cartoon-like.

The watch in the picture up above is my circa 1962 Omega Seamaster. No way was I gonna wear this watch while painting.  I had it on one day when I came off my (mountain) bike. Instinctively, I covered the watch with my right hand as I fell.
So, if there's any risk of damage, I tend to switch to this Seiko Automatic (Model No. SKX031). Timekeeping-wise, it's a little bit...'relaxed'. It can gain or lose anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds per day, but these things will run twenty years without necessarily requiring a service. You could probably clamp this watch around a hand-grenade and pull the pin and it will still tick afterwards.

 Thanks for reading over the last couple of years, folks!

A Beautiful World...Still

 

 

 

 

One day a terrible fire broke out in a forest - a huge woodlands was suddenly engulfed by a raging wild fire. Frightened, all the animals fled their homes and ran out of the forest. As they came to the edge of a stream they stopped to watch the fire and they were feeling very discouraged and powerless. They were all bemoaning the destruction of their homes. Every one of them thought there was nothing they could do about the fire, except for one little hummingbird.

This particular hummingbird decided it would do something. It swooped into the stream and picked up a few drops of water and went into the forest and put them on the fire. Then it went back to the stream and did it again, and it kept going back, again and again and again. All the other animals watched in disbelief; some tried to discourage the hummingbird with comments like, "Don't bother, it is too much, you are too little, your wings will burn, your beak is too tiny, it’s only a drop, you can't put out this fire."
 

And as the animals stood around disparaging the little bird’s efforts, the bird noticed how hopeless and forlorn they looked. Then one of the animals shouted out and challenged the hummingbird in a mocking voice, "What do you think you are doing?" And the hummingbird, without wasting time or losing a beat, looked back and said, "I am doing what I can."

-taken from http://www.wangfoundation.net/humming_bird.pdf

"I'm not a protest singer/
 I can't write a song to send a message/
but it seems to me as if this message needed
to be sent."

-"What Are We Gonna Do?" by Dramarama
Lyrics by John Easdale


Thanks for reading.

The Stats of 50,000 PageViews

The Tissot Visodate review clocked up the most hits.

The Olympia Splendid 99 was the most-viewed typewriter post.

With the Olivetti Lettera 32 post not far behind. This was the typewriter that I purchased new back in 1982. The next most-viewed typewriter post was the circa 1970 Lettera 32.

50,000 PageViews! How'd That Happen!!??

 

 

10:34am, Thursday, January 31st, 2013. Okay, I'm all set for the movies.

Thank you all, once again, for visiting this blog!
Have a great day!

Apocalypse Nah!

Not the most comfortable typing position, but the cool change had kicked in.

The world can't end on the 21st. I just got the car serviced.

UJTU- 6:22pm, Fri Nov 16th, 2012

 

 

Okay, dinner-time. We're making pizza. My apologies to any of you who may be hungry for pizza now.

 

Oh yeah, have a good weekend, all!

 

Thanks for reading.

 

 



Emergency Post No. 2!- Mini Magic Margin Project.

First of all, my apologies to the REAL Magic Margin Project;

                                                                                        http://www.magicmargin.net

Mr Adney has done some sterling work with his classroom since the beginning of his endeavour and it was a truly inspiring notion of his to have brought typewriters into a modern classroom. I will surely mention this in my talk tomorrow.

My wife has offered to help me bring these five typewriters into the classroom (I think I'll introduce her as my secretary, and call her Miss Goodbody)  and to keep an eye on some of the more...'unruly' children in the class in order to avoid any damage to these machines. Maybe I'm being a little too cautious, but, if my daughter's stories are true, we'll be lucky to get out of there alive.
Nahh, it should be good.

Thanks for reading.

What Happens When You Use Up 1Gb for Photos on Blogspot?

While I was uploading typecast photos for my previous post, I got the message from Blogger that I had used up my allotted 1Gig for picture storage.
"Well, that's it, Teeritz, ya ran it for just over a year and now it's full. Shut it down", I thought to myself.

I mustn't have read the fine print when I signed up for Blogger, because I knew nothing about a storage limit. And so, I signed up for 25 Gigs of space for $2.49 a month.

Later that day, I began wondering how the rest of you do it. Those of you who've been blogging for years or have blogs that are photo heavy.

Is there some secret meeting place or handshake that I need to know in order to keep posting up pics without paying for the privilege? Or is this it? In retrospect, I suppose Blogger has to eat too.

Thoughts?
Suggestions?
Ideas?
Threats!!??

Thanks for reading.


***typecast on a circa 2008 Lenovo T410***

Typewritten Gift For My Wife...After a Fashion. (Special Thanks to Yves Saint-Laurent)

There have been a few fashion documetaries released in recent years. This one on YSL is similar to "Valentino:The Last Emperor" (2008) in that it focusses just as much on the personal lives of the designers as it does on their work. And as such, we are left with films that are part-fashion history and part-love story. It is a credit to the directors of these films in particular because they treat their subjects with reverence and respect. It would have been all too easy to treat the subject of haute couture fashion with irony and contempt, but that is not what these two documentaries were all about.

It was tricky getting the red and blue ribbons lined up correctly and they didn't turn out as perfectly as I would have liked. Apologies for the poor photo. The red and blue don't show up as vibrantly as they should.
And sorry for all the typos.

Merry Christmas to you all out there in the Typosphere!



Here I am, awkwardly holding a late 1930s Remington while the camera counts down to take this out-of-focus picture.

Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

Blogger pictures- Why don't they show up like they used to?



Short and to the point. Not having a dig at Blogger, by the way. I just can't figure out why the change in viewing photos has occurred. Wow, another badly constructed sentence!

Thanks, all.

2nd Post from a newbie.

Okay, so I'm still finding my way around here and figuring out how it all works. I wanted to call this blog "Teeritz Syndrome", but I thought that might have been in bad taste and I didn't start a blog in order to intentionally upset anyone.

So anyway, I'm happy with the Ludlumesque title, since I like reading spy novels and I'm still deciding what to post up here. It's all gonna be a little bit random and cover a few of my little interests and hopefully, it'll find its own little audience.
Or not.

Either way, I'm enjoying reading so many great blogs that exist out there on the web.
Thanks!

1st Post from a newbie.

So far, so good (???!!!). Welcome to blogging, teeritz. The only way is up.

Hang in there, folks. It gets better...I hope.