I’ve recently realised that 14th March, the day regua.biz was created, can’t actually be called “birthday” of the site, as it wasn’t born in the strict sense of this word. I’ve decided to call it “anniversary”. And so, let’s celebrate the 2nd anniversary of regua.biz’s creation! The only reason the site is still going is you, the readers. I’d like to thank all of you for your support and/or criticism, I hope you’ll still be enjoying regua.biz during the 3rd year it’s been online.

Many (seriously, many) things have changed over the last year. And I don’t mean the look or functionality of the site; I’m talking about the user preferences (note: yeah, this will be another statistic-based entry. If you don’t enjoy reading these, just skip it. Actual articles for regua.biz are on the way!).

Less than 30% of the site visitors were located in Poland. That’s quite a huge change, considering that last year it was over 95 per cent… Other countries that regua.biz has been viewed from include the United States (21%), United Kingdom (5%) and Germany (4%). The smallest number of visitors (strictly speaking, one guest) came from countries like Sudan, Mozambique, Kyrgyzstan, Antigua and Barbuda, Qatar and Barbados. Cheers to all Qatar readers!

The percentage of users browsing the Web with Firefox has slightly increased compared to the 2007 results. 65% of visitors use Mozilla’s browser, 23% have Internet Explorer, 6% use Opera and 4% are browsing with Safari. Surprisingly, I’ve got some views with the PlayStation 3’s browser - 0.06% to be exact - as well as iPhone (0.03%) and Wii (0.01%).

82% of the visitors use Microsoft Windows (84% of them is XP, 11% Vista), 11% have Mac OS and only 8% of the viewers use Linux. This is not surprising - Windows is still the most popular operating system, and as long as software developers don’t realise that there actually are other OS to develop applications for, this won’t change.

As to screen resolutions, 32% are 1024×768, 24% - 1280×1024. 1280×800 got over 17%, and 1680×1050 - less than 10%. I’m really glad to see 800×600 at 1.26%, that means that I can actually make new layouts a little bit wider without users complaining.

The top traffic source for regua.biz this year is… WordPress.org (thanks to ACP)! Far behind the leader there’s Google with 17% (and, strangely, Google.com with 5% - I’m wondering why Google Analytics doesn’t add them up).

The most popular keywords that brought people to the site were: regua (4.74%), taking the top place just as last year, “Cyanide and Happiness” with 3.49%, and many variations of phrases like “Ajax comments”, “Ajax WordPress” and “comment posting”, etc. I am really curious whether the people who google “regua” are actually trying to find me or they are people trying to plan their holidays in Portugal.

Now, continuing the tradition I’ve started a year ago, let’s get to the 14 March facts! (I’m pretty sure I’ll run out of these in a year or two, so if you know something interesting that happened exactly on 14/03, please let me know).

• On March 14th, Second Equirria were held in the ancient Rome.
• On 14 March 1804, Johann Strauß, Sr., the composer, was born.
• On 14 March 1889, Ferdinand von Zeppelin patented his Zeppelin (“navigable balloon”).
• By 14 March 1939 German troops had fully occupied the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
• 14/03/1994 is the release date of Linux kernel version 1.0.0.
• 14 March 2005 is the date of the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon.
• On 14 March 2008 (yeah, that’s today) Xbox 360’s price was officially lowered by €50 in all European countries. Theoretically, at least.

Again, thanks to all of you for letting me keep the site running. May the Force be with you, As-Salāmu `Alaykum, and happy Easter everyone.

regua.biz was offline for another couple of weeks, and this wasn’t generally my fault, but Movable Type’s. I mean it just broke down an hour before I went on a two-week trip, so I just couldn’t fix it in any way.

Now the site is powered by Wordpress. Yeah, I know some of you may say ‘it sucks! it’s a crap!’ and I also used to say things like that, but the number of plugins to install is just enormous, and the community is great, so I think I’ll stick with Wordpress for at least few months.

As you can see, the layout’s been changed as well. Why? Just because I wanted to do so :P If you have any comments on the new design, please do not hesitate to share them with me.

Thanks to everybody who’s been waiting for the site to be opened. And sorry for all the breaks that you’ve experiencing recently.

After a month or so of a break, regua.biz is back. It has a nice new layout (I haven’t made a final decision on its colours, though) - however, it isn’t powered by Django, as I’ve promised. Why? I just got fucked up with all these errors, and it would take months to write trackback or OpenID modules. I decided to use some kind of blogging system. There are only a few blog tools written in Python, so I looked at good ol’ PHP. Using WebLogMatrix I’ve chosen b2evolution, a nice and simple system with many plug-ins. Hope it’ll work fine, it seems to have all the features I’d want a blogging tool to have.

All feedback is welcome. Please give your opinions on the new layout, b2evolution and everything you’ll find annoying.

UPDATED on 30/06/2007
b2evolution seemed to be a great blogging platform, but really it just sucks. I switched to Lifetype, but after having some problems with mimetype, I tried Movable Type and it’s great. It supports trackbacks and works on static files, meaning that after new entry or comment is submitted to the database, the whole site has to be rebuilt in order to show that entry/comment. It works well and now the page load in a shorter time and there are no problems with it (although configuring MT is a terrible experience, I had to copy the same template code in 20 places). Hope you like - because you have no other choice :P

Yeah, today’s the first birthday of regua.biz. First of all, I’d like to thank all of you for your comments, suggestions and opinions to make the site better. It would be (or maybe it is?) a piece of crap without your help.

Below, I’ve collected some numbers and information about regua.biz. Hope you’ll find them interesting.

• The site has been visited over 20,000 times, which is quite a poor result over other sites like mine. I hope it will change in the near future, since the page has been recently translated into English (which is far more popular language than Polish).
• The site that has refered the highest number of visitors to regua.biz is Pececik, ahead of Webmade and MaxProgram.
• 95% of the visitors are located in Poland.
• 45% of the visitors use Neostrada TP. Oh crap.
• 63% of the vistors use the Firefox browser, 17% use Opera, 3% use some minor browsers, and we’d better forget about the rest.
• 85% of the visitors use a PC with Windows, 7% have a Mac and nearly 6% use Linux as their operating system.
• 52% of the visitors have a 1024×768 screen resolution, 21% use a 1280×1024 setting, and 15% have a 1280×800 widescreen.
• 86% of the visitors connect via a cable or DSL line, while 7% still use a dial-up connection.
• The most popular keyword that brought people to regua.biz is… regua. Some others are php, mod_rewrite, piotrlegnica or klucz do guild wars (Guild Wars access key).

These are the most important numbers re regua.biz. Now, some interesting information about March 14th:

• On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born.
• On March 14, 1943, the Jewish ghetto in Kraków was liquidated and most of the prisoners were sent to Auschwitz.
• On 14 March, 1985, Eva Angelina was born :P
• On 14 March, 1991, Gracek was born.
  (if you don’t know who he is, don’t bother looking him in Google :P)
• On 14 March, 1869, Titokowaru was defeated.
• 14 March is the official Pi ( π ) Day.
• 14 March is the Steak and Blowjob Day.
• 14 March is the White Day (counterpart of St. Valentine’s Day) in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
• 14march.org is a website which I can’t understand, because it’s in Arabic or some other crap looking alike.

Hope you’ll help me make the site better (and more popular) during the next year.
Happy birthday, regua.biz.