Musings of a Trained Monkey

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

Google Analytics, shows that Finland has arrived and in a big way too (5 cities)! Not only do they have a president that looks like Conan O'Brien, they have good taste in websites too :-)

So Norway why are you still holding out on me? Oslo apparently says

..."the Norwegian market boasts one of the highest penetrations of mobile phones, personal computers (PCs) and Internet access in the world"...

so please won't you stop by here?

While I have never been to Reykjavík in person, I have long admired the spelling of the name of the capital of Iceland. Perhaps someone from there will drop by and admire the spelling of the name Longdo?

That would include everyone in the North Atlantic, except Greenland. They might want to consider featuring someone else on their tourist website though, I personally would be scared to run into this guy!
I didn't even mention that Honalulu, Hawaii and Dubai, U.A.E have made it here since last time! Everyone around the world, thanks for stopping by.

According to Google Analytics, visitor(s) have arrived from Australia and New Zealand. Exciting news!

Still no hits from Africa though...

Finland and Norway where are you? Sweden has made it. In fact nearly the entire EU has stopped by. As far as Germany goes, well I am almost as popular as Hasselhoff there. :-)