Honors & Errors

One thing I love to keep tabs on are all of these statistics from the various websites I'm on. Mostly things like page views and posts, because I'm ever obsessed about catching the stats as they reach 333. I know I haven't talked about the number three on this blog, and it's significance in my little life, but I plan to eventually. Suffice it to say that I feel it's an important number, and never more when it comes in threes. So luckily I was able to catch the number when I made 333 posts on Twitter... but sadly, I didn't get a screen capture of it. What I did manage to capture, though, was the number of page views I got on my Virb profile when it reached the magic number. So here it is in all its glory. :P

What's funny is that I stayed up all night to grab this screen capture because I was aware I was near the mark when I saw the stat reach 332. Usually the number of views jumps more than one at a time, so I was worried that by the time I woke up I would've missed the magic moment. So I held a vigil that night... waiting, and waiting, and waiting. Very pathetic. :P

What I love more than keeping track of stats, is experiencing errors. A lot of the new Web 2.0 sites love to play cute and upload various obscure pics when you experience a server error or some such. He's one I captured from Pownce. Tres geek. :D

And while we're on the subject of errors, I'd thought I'd let you in on a particularly strange one. So earlier today I was at Starbucks because I wanted to cool off from being in my horribly stuffy room all day. And while I'm out, I had been in the habit of leaving my system on so that I could seed torrent files while I have the time and bandwith. But since my power outage scare a few days ago, I nixed that habit. So I had my system shut off while I was away, and came home and started up my Mac. I opened my usual apps: Path Finder, System Preferences, Firefox, Transmission, Adium, etc. And the one app I use to keep track of my tweets, the truly great one, is Twitterrific. Now you should know that I have Twitterrific set to log me in automatically upon starting the program. So I do so, and I get logged into someone else's account! It was the weirdest thing. And somewhat scary, because such a glitch makes you feel as though you've been compromised in some way... or at least your system has. I've chalked it up an odd glitch. But never the less I tend to find out who's profile I had loaded. I only know that they've a lot of Spanish-speaking friends. I'm in the process of tracking down exactly who it is got into my Twitterrific, or whose profile I got into. For no other reason than to let them know, since there's nothing they or I can do about the situation. Anyway... it was an odd error, and I felt like sharing. Enjoy! :D

DS333, flattered and malfunctioning.