Musings of a Trained Monkey

Congratulations to Anchorage, Alaska for coming into the fold. Leaving just a few more states to go. As excited as I am to pick up another United State, something even cooler has happened: Norway. Thanks to the city of Bodø for stopping by.

Also a very special thanks to Shlomo(Toda Raba!, תודה רבה) for visiting from Israel!

So I think I am going to have reprioritize which countries to get to visit here next. I was thinking South America, but they are finding me on their own, Argentina, Brazil, and Chilé. Literally the ABC’s of South America have already stopped by. I would like to get a visit from Venezuela though. I traveled there many years ago. If anyone from there stops by I will try to find some of my old photos from Caracas and post them.

Geting visits from more countries that the US doesn’t get along with well would be neat. I noticed that I have had two visitors from Vietnam one even from Ho Chi Minh City. Strange to think about my father fighting there in the war and now people are beginning to exchange ideas and information again.

Next on the list Cuba, I am not sure what kind of internet access is allowed there, but I hope someone finds the way here. Visitantes agradables de Cuba.

I would be equally excited to pick up some traffic from the Korean Peninsula. Both North and South are welcome: 여보세요 한반도에서 방문자에.

Last but certainly not least Lichtenstein I am not sure if the anyone besides the Prince on the Hill has internet access there, but if so “Willkommen im voraus zu den Besuchern von Lichtenstein.” I think I have pictures from when I was there to post as well…

Yes I know the US gets along with South Korea and Lichtenstein… for now :-)

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I’ve added a little AJAX Accordion to my sidebar. You may have noticed I have a fasicination with where vistors to my site are located, geographically speaking. I will probably be posting an updated Google Analytics map in the next few days just to show my progress towards world domination.

Imagine my surprise to discover that while my good friends from Iceland have finally arrived (þakka þú), I haven’t even completed penetration of the entire United States!

As you can see from the new Visitors Sidebar there are nine seven states holding out on me. I would like to take this opportunity to see if anyone out there knows anyone from the University of Alaska – Fairbanks or University of Alaska – Anchorage, if so tell them to avoid further shaming Alaska by visiting me!

To digress for a moment, seriously Norway, what is the deal? I have been getting a lot of traffic from Finland, Sweden, and even Denmark, but you continue to elude my grasp and so now a special plea:

Norge hvorfor vil ikke du komme til besøk meg for www.stevelongdo.com? Er den språkbarrieren? Til tross forJEG er for gammel å delta JEG ville elske å besøk Oslo i løpet av Kanskje når det ‘russ’ festen er under utvikling.

For my English readers that is a little something like this:

Norway why won’t you come to visit me at www.stevelongdo.com? Is it the language barrier? Although I am too old to participate I would love to visit Oslo during May when the ‘russ’ celebration is in progress.

UPDATE: I picked up two states already! Welcome aboard South Dakota and Kansas. I will allow the sun to resume shining there immediately.

UPDATE2: I’ve received reports that the AJAX Accordion doesn’t like IE 6 or otherwise messes up the alignment of my content? I only tested with real browsers and it worked great with them. I don’t have a Windoze box at home so I will check it out tomorrow at work…

UPDATE3: I found documentation on this problem here and implemented a fix So the 12% of users browsing my site in IE can now see the text of the articles lined up correctly again. Seriously though join the other 88% of visitors using real browsers you can even use this one