A bit dull for most of my readers, but I made this for myself, and if you find it useful, that’s nice… I’ve created a version of my blogroll for iPhone… point your phone here:

http://www.pygmygoat.net/blogroll/

It doesn’t have a homescreen icon just yet, but it’ll do for now. Of course, you don’t have to view it from your phone, it works perfectly fine in a browser. Does away with the ‘hover’ requirement to view the title on this page’s blogroll.

Today I have received one of the best google searches ever. What prompts someone to search for:

where is the scary man with pigtails

?

Other highlights this week:

bathing a pygmy goat

go to the gym on your own

slippiness

and

big explosion

Wow… I’ve been blogging for five years as of yesterday. Ok… it was a little infrequent to start with… but all the same.

So… you may have heard by now, or may not. Sarah and I are getting divorced.

The upshot relevant to the blog is that I probably won’t be able to put any effort into it for quite some time. I won’t forget you guys and I hope you won’t forget me

And I’ll give a personal Japanese T-Shirt lesson to anyone who was following the course and is waiting for the next installment. That’ll have to wait until I see you, though.

See you soon,

Lots of love and kisses,

Stu
x

I’ve been receiving some complaints that my blog has been becoming rather too geeky of late - i.e. lots of my loyal readers can’t be arsed to read it any more. So let me just say:

Ok… up and over we go…

Q: How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light bulb?

A: One to figure out what to change it into, and one to find what type of bulb emits broken light.

Ok… with that over with…

Yeah, I know, I already mentioned the languages that IsItFriday works in, but since then I webbified the report and made unsupported languages appear in red, and it sorts by frequency, and allsorts.

So now you can see it live.

If I was surprised to see Esperanto the other day, I was more surprised today to see Interlingue.

So, anyway, it seems the most popular unsupported (so far) languages are:

Polish, Estonian, Russian and Portuguese

I also changed the main IsItFriday page so that if you ask for a language which isn’t supported, it invites you to submit translations and have your name credited.

I thought it’d be ace to make an animated map which by some means shows the number of requests over time from various places - it might be possible to follow the daytime around the world or somesuch.

After my ‘virtual travel’ fun of the previous blog, I decided to add language logging to IsItFriday, and write a script to extract all the languages and variants from the data. Since writing it, there have been requests for the following languages. I don’t know why, but I found Egyptian Arabic the most surprising.

It should be noted that the language request has two parts - the language, and then the variant or country. The second part is optional, so where for example “de” is specified, I call that “German - Standard” but there may also be “de-de” which is “German - Germany”. They are essentially the same variant, while “de-ch” or Swiss German could be different.

Anyway… the list…

• English: 1372
  • Standard: 226
  • United States: 904
  • Britain: 216
  • Canada: 9
  • Australia: 7
  • New Zealand: 5
  • Ireland: 2
  • South Africa: 1
• German: 293
  • Standard: 92
  • Germany: 191
  • Switzerland: 6
  • Austria: 4
• Swedish: 253
  • Standard: 246
  • Sweden: 7
• Dutch: 116
  • Standard: 103
  • Belgium: 10
  • Netherlands: 3
• Polish: 67
  • Standard: 61
  • Poland: 6
• Finnish: 64
  • Standard: 63
  • Finland: 1
• Estonian: 40
  • Standard: 40
• Russian: 37
  • Standard: 29
  • Russia: 8
• Spanish: 37
  • Standard: 9
  • Argentina: 16
  • Spain: 6
  • Colombia: 5
  • Mexico: 1
• Portuguese: 23
  • Brazil: 23
• French: 19
  • Standard: 16
  • Canada: 2
  • Belgium: 1
• Norwegian (Bokmål): 18
  • Standard: 17
  • Norway: 1
• Ukranian: 16
  • Standard: 16
• Danish: 13
  • Standard: 13
• Japanese: 11
  • Standard: 11
• Norwegian: 7
  • Standard: 7
• Slovenian: 5
  • Standard: 5
• Hebrew: 5
  • Standard: 5
• Turkish: 4
  • Standard: 3
  • Turkey: 1
• Icelandic: 4
  • Standard: 4
• Italian: 3
  • Standard: 3
• Hungarian: 3
  • Standard: 1
  • Hungary: 2
• Arabic: 3
  • Egypt: 3
• Chinese: 2
  • China: 2
• Romanian: 2
  • Standard: 2
• Czech: 2
  • Standard: 2
• Norwegian (Nynorsk): 1
  • Norway: 1
• Greek: 1
  • Standard: 1

There were a couple of intriguing requests, once for the language rs1-5e889a0ed96 and one for en-securid. Anyone know anything about those? I assume they’re some sort of encrypted communication protocols?

Here are my favourite searches that people have used to find this blog over the last week:

belly button short film - I’m not sure I know any short films featuring belly buttons.

blog “and bananas” - Bananas! Hurrah for bananas!

bradgate park stags - Hopefully they found what they were after.

carillon tower, loughborough. number of steps - 120 if my counting and maths are correct (90 on the stone spiral and 30 up through the bell room).

epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkäänköhän - Which as we all know is the longest word in the world, and happens to be Finnish.

girdles picture blog - Huzzah! for girdles.

henry the thirst blog - He’s over here, although nowadays, he’s Not The Thirst.

lycra gym man - Mmm! Lycra! oh… erm…

painting of st pancreas station - I facetiously wrote ‘St. Pancreas’ once - and you wouldn’t believe the number of hits I’ve had since….

dog poo barbie - My standard example for arty indie photography is Barbie covered in dog poo. Seems there are genuinely people interested in such a thing.

japanese exclamation - here are some for you… やった！ hooray!, すごい！ great! and だめ！ stop!

…and I think my favourite from the ‘not understanding how this internet thing works’ camp is:

more nottingham mela pictures - Well, I’ve already found some… where are the rest?

There have been some interesting google searches in the last week. Lots and lots for notting hill carnival 2006 which is a shame since I didn’t go!

Someone was looking for a pink fur steering wheel cover, the m-cup boobs are still popular as are pictures of the nottingham mela 2006.

The more fun searches have been:

“top secret project” romania - I’m really not sure what they were hoping to find here. If it’s top secret, surely it won’t be on the net - unless they think Romanians aren’t net-savvy enough to realise how accessible information is on the internet.

“happy eater” sick - I’m not sure if Happy Eater made them sick, or if they think the logo looks like pacman about to stick his fingers down his throat.

And the winners this week are…

japanese s&m and japanese s&m party

I’m very sorry if any searchers found my blog rather disappointingly lacking in what they were searching for.

It’s MONDAY! That means it’s time to see what the world were searching for last week.

Seems that the event I went to (which I won’t name here, so the searches hit the correct page) was pretty popular. 48 searches for pictures last week.

dingle fingle has had another search. I’m now almost convinced that Rich is putting in one search per week just to keep him there in the list.

I’m glad to see that someone else is searching for the real northernmost point of europe which, you’ll remember, I determined to be somewhere near Gamvik.

Now, however, we turn to the interesting entries. It’s strange that I’ve never written about any of these items (ok… the first one, I sort-of have, but not in that way), but when you put enough words together across enough blogs you get some alarming results. They are, this week:

sweden slut
gay clown porn
geek slut

and the winner by far this week…

pooping in spandex