Sim City for your website traffic

VisitorVile has to be the most entertaining website traffic (read realtime) and web server log analyser around. To quote from the website

“VisitorVille does not represent website visitors simply as numbers or graphs, but as real people in a real environment. You can watch your site traffic as if you were people-watching in a big city.”

I particularly like the cute buses with logos like Google and Ask Jeeves representing respective bots…

Pity it is M$Windows only and has absolutely no trial version for your own website 🙁

Yeah,I know real men just use tail -f

Sunshine again!

I had spoken, rather written, too soon on Friday when I wrote sun is shining. It rained the entire of Saturday and Sunday and part of yesterday, how ever true to the Yahoo Weather forecast the day today is sunny 🙂 The rains, besides my mood, put a damper on the cotton and mango crop

Re:Veal

Re:Veal

“Re:Veal is a multi-layer pun in English intended to invoke the emotional controversy of the Western treatement of young cows (calves) against the abstract resemblance to a Bird of Paradise, in context of the (photo)graphic/cinematic definition of a reveal. In wider context of secular and religious pluralism with regard to sacred cows, the nude legs

Crappy weather

It is dark, cold and wet – in short a very crappy weather. I hate this kind of weather makes me feel depressed no thats not the word…. anyway something like that, hopefully by late afternoon it will clear up. Yesterday night we had the opportunity to listen to Pandit Swapan Chaudhari, that would have

Light her with 7:20 and 5 seconds

Following questions about setup for my pictures I mentioned to Vivek that I plan to now regularly take pictures of the setups In response he told me a very simple idea… Use the clock face as the notation! The model/subject is in the center facing six O’clock, the position hour arm is where your primary

Muttony gluttony

Muttony gluttony

Friday was Bakr-Id this meant an entire long weekend of muttony gluttony. Swati has really perfected her Briyani to the exact way I like, that I cannot describe in words how I like it will give you an idea of what was involved 😀 Since it was a weekend people and relatives who usually do

The temperature in Nagpur has dropped to a minimum of 10C, this is making the afternoons very pleasant, working while sitting in sun, sipping hot coffee… aaahh!! One bit of business wisdom which struck me today was that “You should never take what your clients say too seriously – However you should be very serious

The Great LiveJournalOutage of 2005 During the outage I discovered something called physical interaction. It was most pleasurable. What did you do? Brought to you by geek-foo Taken from

Copied creativity and random ramblings

Copied creativity and random ramblings

I have always maintained looking at the works of others is a great way to learn and experiment, but Swati alleged that I have been doing that a bit too much and that I have not really come up with an original image in a long long time. Never the one to defy her statements

Money Money Money

Finally stole some time out to go and shop for some things… Among the things not originally intended are two studio flash lights which have a 10 step potentiometer to vary the light intensity, despite the original glee at being able to shoot at very high speeds it turned out that the lights which I