Ahem. May I have your attention please. The guidelines of a recent Math assignment have stipulated that I find two different sorts of charts, graphs, or tables published in the newspaper, in a magazine, on the internet, etc. In an attempt to find material for this project of some interest to present, I have decided to go personal. The outline of the project also prohibits me from creating the graph myself. I then had the idea to use statistics from this very web site for my project. In particular, statistics on the visitors to said web site. Now, it occurs to me that though I have not directly generated this graph, and can cite the good people of Urchin web tracking services as my source, until the moment I took a screen selection of said graph, the whole thing had been a very private affair. I myself needed to enter a password just to view the thing. So, as I sat down to start, I realized my graph had never, in any sense, been published. Then it occurred to me that, though not being a publication of any sort of legitimacy, my own blog, being accessible via the internet, and, as the graph in question depicts, being at the very least visited by people other than myself, my blog constituted a publication. Of sorts.

Thus, by simply publishing said graph, which I myself did not make, I have fulfilled the requirements in full.

Without further unnecessary ado...

Apparently, that buffalo image that I had said someone emailed me, well... I wasn't the only one. Apparently it was some manor of spam. I can't say I'm an expert, as I get so little. On top of that, this was weird in that it had all that strange HTML stuck in the subject line. And most of all, it was a buffalo. Apparently, it was merely a coincidence that the proprietor of tastybuffalo.com should have the image of a buffalo emailed to him by people in foreign lands. I'm not entirely convinced, but some are.

Here's a link to the Project Honey Pot article my associates point to as "proof":

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/bss_X19tb2RlPWdsb2JhbCZzYmo9VHJhcGVyK0duaWV6bm8rLStHcmVldGluZ3MrZnJvbStQb2xhbmQrKyUwQStDb250ZW50LQ..

I can remember saying this is what it was going to one day come to. I remember regretting not being in a position myself to capitalize on what I thought then, and still think now to be a brilliant concept: Paying people to watch commercials. In a recent email I received from Gamefly, I was told I could now, by virtue of a new partnership of theirs, transfer credit from my BrightSpot.tv account to my gamefly one, at most saving me $5 a month. I have yet to try the thing, but it all makes sense, and I take pride in having predicted such a thing. First it will be credit on services I already pay for, soon enough it'll be going to my pay pal account, mark my words!

ok, ending it there is lame. I'll register on the site and give you my thoughts, but after that I have work to do.

Huh... they seem to have utilized some kinda fancy java on their site, and I've yet to get logged in on any of the browsers I've tried...
Safari
FireFox (DeerPark distro)
Camino
OmniWeb 5

Whatever, I'll tell you what I think of it some other time...