I really wonder about my website statistics sometimes. According to my webserver, I’ve been getting an average of 844 visits to my website per day. According to my Site Meter statistics, however, I only receive 2 visits per day. I suspect that the true figure lies somewhere between those two unlikely extremes.
In any event, according to my webstats, I received my first visitor the other day from the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. If they come back and see this post, I would like to welcome whichever one of the 574 residents stopped by.
A bit of a background, for those who have never heard of the place: the Cocos Islands are in the Indian Ocean, and are a territory (non-autonomous) of Australia. The coral reefs that make up the 14 square kilometers (just under 5.5 squire miles) of islands have a maximum altitude of 5 metres above sea level, and are policed by 5 people. Considering the ~60% unemployment rate, the fact that the only industries are “copra products and tourism,” and the wide assortment of tropical fruit and coconuts that grow there, the place seems to be a bit of a tropical paradise. If anybody wants to go visit, feel free to send me pictures. Or take me along with you.
Archive for June 13th, 2006
Another Unlikely Visitor
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006Al Qaida, Hitchens, And The Viet Cong
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006RealClearPolitics has an interesting piece about the forced comparison in the media between the incident in Haditha and the My Lai incident during the Vietnam war. Particularly, they take Christopher Hitchens to task for following the usual liberal doctrine that the Viet Cong weren’t really all that bad, just misunderstood. The article essentially makes the point that if there’s anything that fits in the Iraq/Vietnam comparison, it is between Al Qaida in Iraq and the Viet Cong — and both of them are the type of evil that America should be fighting against.