From the Beeb:  •  “  •  Pakistan clinch Bangalore victory Third Test, Bangalore, day five:  •  India 449 & 214 lost to Pakistan 570 & 261-2d by 168 runs  •  Pakistan bowled out India for 214 on the final day of the third Test in Bangalore to tie the series 1-1. Danish Kaneria dismissed Harbhajan …

First let me apologize to those of you who are being drawn by my references to cricket only to find absense of understanding. Google now ranks me number three for "cricket" + "update" (as opposed to "cricket update" in which case I am #1 beating the worst named URL "cricinfo.com") and that is …

For 23 months I have written here, posted photos mostly nicked from others all with the main goal of triggering a response from this blue flickering screen. I don't know many of you who read my words. Some of your write for your own fascinating photon tubes of wonderment but mostly you read, drawn …

There are two sorts of bloggers - stats nerds and liars. There is some other thing that that distinction applies to, some other private thing...I'll think of it later, I guess.  •  Anyway, I went through a fretful weekend with the server stats down and places Site Meter and Extreme Tracking on my …

Now this is getting weird. Yesterday I had 1233 visits to this site - a month ago I was averaging 450. In the last few weeks, RSS visits have gone from about 30% of the traffic to 75%. I suspect there is some sort of automated RSS visiting happening rather than a wave of new readers fascinated …

Systems man Adam has outstripped himself with statistical succulence.  •  The daily stats are now broken down by category as well as total to give us all an idea of the trends. You can see that the goalie points are key this early in the playoffs but that the scorers are coming up strong. The …

The pool stats are up. It is amazing to see how much work Adam puts into the systems without having ever met me (who would have thought that being a bro-in-law of my ex law school roommate carried such pull).  •  Anyway, please note that the goalie points are added from day one and fluctuate …

Many thanks again to you, the readership, for the encouragement stats bring. As I do not have a dust gathering pay pal button, your increasing clickery is the foot stool of these my literary efforts. Given the we had two stats app outages - on the 13th and 31st (see Dia. B below) - it looks like …

I sometimes wonder if I am more hesitant to discuss stats than you, the reader, might like. After all, they are about you not me. The odd thing is it may very well not be about me at all as yesterday saw a jump of 66% above average visits but not hits or total Kb flow, even though I was not …