Five Things From Friday 5 : Dreams Dashed Edition

1. So I went to the gym (for the first time in like two weeks) on Wednesday night, hoping to listen to the new Chaoscast, and ... my favorite elliptical machine (the one with the kick-you-in-the-teeth "cross-training" program) was gone. So I found another (lame) machine and started the (lame "cross-training") program, and then chaoscast restarted after four minutes, because ... somehow my computer had only downloaded the first four minutes. Aaagh!
   
   
2. Anyway, I finally listened to Chaoscast today, and I was one of the featured community sites. Yaaay! It certainly explains the midweek "bounce" I got. Much like a post-convention presidential candidate, being mentioned in a Syp article will typically give me like 175% traffic for a day.
   
   I was really confused because last week I was third on Syp's Da Bloody Twenty (previous high : 11) and got no Syp bump at all. This week, before I had listened to the Chaoscast I saw that I was not mentioned in Da Bloody Twenty but got the Syp bump anyway. I was very confused.
   
   
3. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, Syp described my URL as "boathammer.wordpress.com" which is a little ... out of date. (current address : http://boathammer.com) However, it does put him in good company, with The Greenskin and Bloghammer which still have my old addie. I should go bug them.
   
   It does mean, however, that boathammer.wordpress.com is still about half as popular as a dead site as it was when it was active.
   
   
4. The fourth race for Dawn of War 2, is officially Tyranids. I'm stoked about this. Hat Tip to Ruur Squig.
   
   
5. I'm quite sick tonight, I had to miss out "date night" with my wife to grab some extra sleep so I had to miss out on Puzzle Quest. I woke up and we hung out for a while, but she just retired so I came to write this blog quick, even though I'm sick.
   
   Reminds me of my old WoW mod, one time I uploaded a new version and there were some remarks about the unusually terse patch notes I had provided. They were largely due to the excessive vomiting of which I partook before, during, and after the version update. When it comes to blogging and modding I am totally hardcore.
   
   
6. I found a particularly disturbing stat in my google analytics this week : according to the cookie, the vast majority of visitors to the site spend less than ten seconds here.
   
   I'm hoping that's an RSS reader thing or something. Right?
   
   Anyway, it does remind me once again that if I could spend my time modding or blogging the former would probably be far more appreciated.
   
   But I don't know if I'll ever end up writing a WAR mod. In WoW I created probably like ten mods but only really had two in good enough shape to share.