Linden's Pensieve

Emailing yourself reports is a great way to save time because it automates one process in your life. If you don’t have to remember to log into your web stats, your brain can be spending its power on other more important tasks. At the very least, you can use the automated report as a reminder, [...]

After my post yesterday which reported a few stats for this blog from Google Analytics, I realized that a few of my dear readers might enjoy having the same knowledge about your blogs. And I realized that some of you might be intimidated to use Google Analytics. However, I really think that Google Analytics is [...]

I had previously limited comments to those with Google accounts because I hate getting spam comments. But this limits the people who can comment on my posts, not that that is a bad thing… I don’t want those five of you who regularly engage me in conversation by commenting to stop commenting, so don’t think [...]

After Sarah reported her blog analytics, I just had to look at mine. And then I decided I might as well post them too. After all, I found her post interesting, so I figure that maybe some of my readers might find my analytics lists interesting. Plus, if you have a blog and want to [...]

You might consider it a little nerdy, but everyday, my best friend and I have a little eCompetition. Sometime during the day, we each play Set online and email each other the our times. It’s nice because it creates a little daily conversation—and we exercise our brains. I hadn’t really read up on Set, so [...]

I am not sure which particular post it was, but someone who knows me very well emailed me a link to one of the posts on Indexed (http://indexed.blogspot.com/) And I loved it. Jessica Hagy posts images of clever charts which reveal poignant, smarmy, and often outright true observations of life. All of the images are [...]

As I lie in bed writing about the penultimate week in our 100–mile—8 week challenge, I am getting really excited. Not about the challenge particularly, but about the fact that I just had a legitimate opportunity to use the word “penultimate.” I mean, seriously, how often does that chance roll across your path? And in [...]

How many of your friends use MSN Messenger? What about Yahoo! Messenger? AOL IM? ICQ? Am I missing any of the many instant messaging service? Ugh! Now who wants to download all of those programs? Not me. I don’t want my RAM being dominated by a bunch of chat programs, plus there are too many [...]

This is one in a series of posts on ways I have discovered that Germany and America are different. See the end of this post for other posts on this topic. I haven’t written too much about my work at Justus-Liebig-Universität, probably because when I get home and have time to write a blog, the [...]

I love winter. I am weird, and I know that. I always have to remind myself that probably 80% (or more!) of Americans love spring and summer more than winter, but when I came across this blog today, I remembered that some people downright dread the coldest months on the calendar. I get the feeling [...]