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MapMSG extension: Crop circles
Posted on March 3rd, 2007 by

Today I added an extension to the MapMSG.com site. Next to smoke signals, you can now also craft your own crop circles...

MapMSG -- crop circles
MapMSG unleashed
Posted on February 2nd, 2007 by

I released a new site...

Signalling using land marks is an ancient form of communication. Compare this to e-mail, hardly available for half a century and already collapsing by spam.Forget about boring e-cards with flashy animations. Instead, send a unique satellite-visible message, originating from your own house...

Enter: MapMSG.com

MapMSG -- smoke signals
Saint Nicholas
Posted on December 5th, 2004 by

My site was taken off-line due to the enormous amounts of traffic flooding in because of Saint Nicholas. It was taken offline December 2nd. I cannot really blame my provider ( IPowerWeb ), in fact, I am quite pleased that the site could withstand all the traffic with their simple virtual server service. Some statistics:

  • Google AdSense counted 305895 page impressions on December 1st.
  • NedStat reported the following statistics:
    Statistics

XHTML'ification
Posted on January 4th, 2004 by

I spent a lot of time migrating all pages on my site to valid XHTML 1.0. Lots of work, yet not externally visible changes, except for this emblem:

Valid XHTML           1.0!
Slashdotted by Saint Nicholas
Posted on December 7th, 2003 by

This is the first year my site survived the Saint Nicholas festivities. All records were scattered, with a peak 247.212 visitors per day on december 5th. I am extremely pleased with the performance of my provider: ipowerweb . The past years with HostRocket were really troublesome, as they unplugged my site at only +/- 90.000 visitors per day already.

Site statistics
Miss Workrave face
Posted on July 8th, 2003 by

I spent the last few nights moving the site over to my new provider. The site is finally 100% up and running again. So now I can continue to work on Miss Workrave. I am currently focusing on her face, here's a first snapshot:

A closeup of the face of Miss Workrave
Hosting Gripes
Posted on July 1st, 2003 by

The web site has been out of the air for a few days, visitors were presented the following:

Site down

I am really fed up with my hosting company, HostRocket. They claim the site was getting 30 visitors per second, and they told me to move to a (semi)dedicated server. They would not provide me with any information on where the hits were coming from. Normally, the site receives +/- 500 visits a day. As I don't earn any money...

Started blogging
Posted on June 23rd, 2003 by
I finally added a blog section to my site. Not very original, everyone else has one. What finally drove me to do it was the fact that I like the idea of being able to look back and see what I was up to at that point in time. I used an old news file to generate a bit of content for the past few years. Hopefully, I can find the time and discipline...
Redesigned dotsphinx.com CSS
Posted on December 14th, 2002 by
Internal redesign of the site. The site now makes full use of the latest CSS technology, and no longer relies on HTML tables to do fancy layouting. I invite you to have a look at the HTML source of this page.
Saint Nicholas shut down
Posted on December 4th, 2002 by
My provider closed down the site because it generated too much traffic. This year it reached approximately 70000 visitors per day before being shut down. The number is slightly down from last year where it got 92550 visitors in one day before being shut down. Currently, moving to a dedicated server is not (financially) feasible. It would be if the site received that much traffic during the whole year, and not just on Saint Nicholas...
Redesign dotsphinx.com
Posted on July 16th, 2002 by
Redesigned the site. If you're feeling nostalgic, have a look at the designs from earlier times: 1995-1997, 1997-1999, or the year 1999-2001.
Saint Nicholas Record
Posted on December 4th, 2001 by
The Saint Nicholas site section broke all records: 92550 page views in one day.