My last post dealt with the spambots who love my blog, but I thought it would be interesting to share some of the other statistics that my hosting company collects anonymously. While I write this mainly to keep in contact with people in Australia, only 9% of visitors are coming from the land down-under. By far the majority come from Sweden or the US. I assume the eastern European readership is primarily made up of spambots.

One of the most common ways to stumble across my blog is by people doing image searches for kangaroo meat. The other picture that gets far too many hits is the one below. I can’t help but think those searching for Swedish sluts are disappointed.

In the past month my site has been translated into Chinese 49 times with Google Translate. 你好.

The most popular post from the archives is on how I fixed the sound problems on my HP Mini 2140 after I installed Ubuntu. Most people find this post through various Google searches, and it has been translated into Spanish 16 times in the last month. This pleases me as none of the people I know who regularly read my my blog have one of these computers.

There are also a lot of searches about people learning to drive in Sweden in English. I hope these people have a more positive experience than I had. But ultimately this ended well.

Far too many people use Internet Explorer (and old version at that). I hope this is some anomoly of the spambots, amd that the rest of you have found your way to Chrome or just something other than Internet Explorer.

And for some reason my honours thesis has hundreds of downloads!? Much more than all of my other publications combined. Of all of the things I have written I would have thought this to be one of the less interesting, if for no other reason than it is the longest, and my Euromicro 2006 paper provides an eight page summary.