Back at 8002

Posted on by Ian C.

Margaret and I flew back down to Florida today (on much-better-than-the-rest JetBlue), this time for more than a weeks vacation – and with Kate flying over from England to join us!

We shipped four big boxes of stuff ahead of us, including a new “one-cup-now” coffee maker like the one we have at home, an older PC I had at home that can stay down here, and a satellite dish and tools to install it:

I’d hoped to bring an eBay-purchased Tivo satellite receiver with me, but had problems getting it enabled in time for the trip … so still no TV down here (except via SlingBox!)

Google Analytics

Posted on by Ian C.

In case you don’t already know about it, Google Analytics is a free service that offers an amazing level of detail about access to your website, in an easy-to-use format. Here’s the “front page” of analysis for GBMINI, which I set up a week or two ago:

Josh Wardell introduced it to me (I think he’s been using it a long time), and I was impressed enough to try it immediately – you have to sign up at Google Analytics, add your website, then paste some supplied (Javascript) code in to every webpage, which is easy to do with WordPress since you can just modify the template header or footer.

Since it uses Javascript, it won’t work for people that have turned off such features in their browser – but it still gives impressive data, including average daily visits, most viewed pages, information on how visitors got to the page and where they went next, and location of the visitor (down to city detail for USA).

It’s intended for users of Google advertising features, and has loads of stuff I don’t use that helps figure whether people buy products or not! But for me, having an easy view of my websites is enough, and I love the price!

Cod Letter

Posted on by Ian C.

Steve / Cape Cod MINI famously ran MINIsOnTop for the first three years, before passing the reins to Theo, Michael and I … Steve sold his original MINI “STRYKER” for a Subaru, but returned to MINI a year ago with “STRYK2“, an R56 – which he will be bringing to it’s second MINIsOnTop this summer.

Steve’s registration arrived with a small bonus – a custom postage stamp:

CAPE COD MINI special postage stamp

Nicely drawn, Steve 🙂