Fun with Sitemeter

I just checked my sitemeter logs, and I saw a ridiculous amount of traffic coming from reddit.com. Apparently, my buddy at NYU submitted a link to this site, and a whole bunch of random people started showing up.

Knowing that people other than my friends/students/professors are reading this page really makes me wish that I had time to come up with more creative content. It also makes me extremely self-conscious about my atrocious grammar. (I'm going to try to find that Strunk and White book later today).

Sitemeter doesn't always provide accurate stats, but they are pretty decent considering that the service is free. One of the fun things that I like to do is see all the weird search phrases that lead people to this page. Here are a few that I haven't seen before:

- The search for "I hate Princeton" returns my site as the 10th hit. This is especially surprising since somebody actually wrote a book called "I Hate Princeton." This is also unfortunate, since my hatred is directed at the town (and at pretty much all of New Jersey) and not Princeton University (which I think is lovely).

- The search for "wise ass english quips" also returns this site as a hit, and refers to this post about Mr. Tom Lehrer.

- I am the number one hit for the "localadmin password hack" search, which refers to this post about trying to fix my terminal server after the registry got corrupted.

I was also curious to learn that there is a place called Paradise, PA. And, I get an average of 7 unique hits from there on any given weekday. It also seems that nobody from Chicago has ever come to this site, ever.