It's a Small Internet (1 comment)
I'm guest lecturing at Montini Catholic today. It's the day before Thanksgiving, and Tree expected that her classes wouldn't be too inclined to pay attention in class. So long as I was coming upstate for Thanksgiving, we figured it might be fun for them to talk to a real life grown up nerd.
I've been preparing to talk to the web design class this afternoon. They're playing with PHP lately, and that's convenient because I've been known to be a huge PHP fanboy. The only thing I have online now is my blog, so I was looking around at things that might be interesting. I don't know what level they're at, but I thought my stats page might be interesting, since it allows data mining on every request that the blog sees. You know how your web browser just asked for this page? Yeah, that went into the database.
Anyway, when I was looking through my top referring URIs, I noticed traffic coming from blogs.sun.com and planetsun.com. I don't know anybody there. with a bit of data mining, I discovered that after I blogged about how cool the Sun demos at LISA were, it hit Feedster (which I hadn't realized indexes me) and was discovered by the Sun employee who was running the demos that impressed me so. He seems to have found my excitement complimentary and linked to it in his own blog! The internet is such a small place.
Tangentially, I was pleased to see that he was using Firefox on Solaris x86.