Dear Kitty. Some blog

From Friday 18 April till Monday 21 April there will be no blogging here, as I will not have Internet access then.

See you again, all of you!

This video is called Chaos Theory - The Butterfly Effect.

From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA:

Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and butterfly effect, dies at 90

April 16, 2008

Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorologist who tried to explain why it is so hard to make good weather forecasts and wound up unleashing a scientific revolution called chaos theory, died April 16 of cancer at his home in Cambridge. He was 90.

A professor at MIT, Lorenz was the first to recognize what is now called chaotic behavior in the mathematical modeling of weather systems. In the early 1960s, Lorenz realized that small differences in a dynamic system such as the atmosphere–or a model of the atmosphere–could trigger vast and often unsuspected results.

These observations ultimately led him to formulate what became known as the butterfly effect–a term that grew out of an academic paper he presented in 1972 entitled: “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?”

This video is called WordPress.com - Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog.

Since this blog started in August 2005, there have been blog posts in 32 categories.

The numbers of blog posts in various categories are (some posts fit in more than one category. So, they they have more than one tag):

Animals (general) 97

Amphibians Frogs, toads, newts, etc. 115

Birds 748

Fish Lampreys, rays, sharks, boney fish, etc. 241

Invertebrates Lancelets, insects, mollusks, etc. 388

Mammals Monotremes, marsupials, placental mammals 441

Reptiles Present reptiles and extinct ones like dinosaurs 267

Art General 15

Architecture Building 76

Dancing Dances 16

Film Movies, movie actors, etc. 163

Literature Poets, playwrights, novelists, etc. 248

Music 283

Visual arts Painting, drawing, photography, etc. 407

Computers and the Internet 119

Crime Murder, other crimes 494

Disasters Tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. 66

Economic, social, trade union, etc. 993

Environment Nature, and humans; pollution and anti-pollution action; etc. 612

Humour Jokes, cartoons, etc. 142

Media Television, radio, press, etc. 144

Plants etc. Plants, fungi, monocellular organisms: all non animal organisms 293

Politics general 612

Human rights Civil rights; torture; etc. 1061

Peace and war 1416

Racism and anti-racism 236

Religion 169

Science; health 888

Sports 36

This blog On this Dear Kitty blog 50

Women’s issues Pertaining to the situation of women in society 174

This comedy video is called Eddie Izzard’s Encore on Computers.

Temporarily, there will be fewer entries on this blog.

As I won’t be near a computer keyboard as often.

However, it won’t be for that long.

This is a video about how to install StatCounter in a blog.

Since I installed StatCounter statistics on this blog on 29 May 2007, there have been a million visits to this blog.

Visit #1,000,000 was today. I was offline then, so I do not know more details.

The total number of hits on my other counter, Gostats, since I put it on this blog last December , is 265988.

My blog at Blogsome somehow was not working today. Though Blogsome itself seemed to work allright. I hoped that the tragedy of my ModBlog blog, which disappeared forever without any warning, would not repeat itself.

UPDATE: my Blogsome blog is back; though some aspects still seem to be not working properly.

Besides my Statcounter statistics, since yesterday I have GoStats statistics as well on this blog.

It is still a bit early for an overall view of the strong and weak points of both. Though I did find out a few points; like, the free version of GoStats, unlike Statcounter, does not have statistics of cities or of states/provinces where one’s visitors come from.

On the other hand, the free version of Statcounter stops counting after every 500 visitors; so, it is more difficult to see long term trends than with GoStats.

After one day plus a few hours of GoStats visitor counting on my blog, the visitors come from these countries:

United States 896 (45.00%)
United Kingdom 240 (12.05%)
Canada 121 (6.08%)
Netherlands 69 (3.47%)
India 69 (3.47%)
Germany 48 (2.41%)
Australia 47 (2.36%)
Sweden 32 (1.61%)
Denmark 30 (1.51%)
France 24 (1.21%)
Spain 23 (1.16%)
Italy 23 (1.16%)
Turkey 23 (1.16%)
Poland 22 (1.10%)
Belgium 16 (0.80%)
Bangladesh 15 (0.75%)
Hungary 14 (0.70%)
Lithuania 13 (0.65%)
Bulgaria 12 (0.60%)
Norway 11 (0.55%)
Brazil 10 (0.50%)
Switzerland 10 (0.50%)
Iran, Islamic Republic of 9 (0.45%)
Indonesia 9 (0.45%)
Singapore 9 (0.45%)
Egypt 9 (0.45%)
Korea, Republic of 8 (0.40%)
Finland 8 (0.40%)
Ireland 7 (0.35%)
Saudi Arabia 7 (0.35%)
Slovakia 7 (0.35%)
United Arab Emirates 6 (0.30%)
New Zealand 6 (0.30%)
Philippines 6 (0.30%)
Thailand 6 (0.30%)
Japan 6 (0.30%)
Russian Federation 5 (0.25%)
Portugal 5 (0.25%)
Vietnam 5 (0.25%)
Mexico 5 (0.25%)
Romania 5 (0.25%)
Colombia 5 (0.25%)
Czech Republic 5 (0.25%)
Pakistan 4 (0.20%)
Greece 4 (0.20%)
Israel 4 (0.20%)
Macedonia 4 (0.20%)
Croatia 4 (0.20%)
Argentina 4 (0.20%)
Slovenia 3 (0.15%)
Austria 3 (0.15%)
Algeria 3 (0.15%)
Kuwait 3 (0.15%)
South Africa 3 (0.15%)
Cyprus 3 (0.15%)
Venezuela 2 (0.10%)
Taiwan, Province of China 2 (0.10%)
Aruba 2 (0.10%)
Costa Rica 2 (0.10%)
Somalia 2 (0.10%)
Luxembourg 2 (0.10%)
Kenya 2 (0.10%)
Malta 2 (0.10%)
Lebanon 2 (0.10%)
Chile 1 (0.05%)
Jordan 1 (0.05%)
Jamaica 1 (0.05%)
Malaysia 1 (0.05%)
Ecuador 1 (0.05%)
Georgia 1 (0.05%)
Iceland 1 (0.05%)
Uganda 1 (0.05%)
Azerbaijan 1 (0.05%)
Hong Kong 1 (0.05%)
Kyrgyzstan 1 (0.05%)
Latvia 1 (0.05%)
Cuba 1 (0.05%)
Panama 1 (0.05%)
Qatar 1 (0.05%)

Apart from Statcounter statistics, from today on there are also GoStats statistics on this blog.

I’ll see what are the strong points of both visitor counters.

Since I installed StatCounter statistics on this blog on 29 May this spring, there have been over 500,000 visits to this blog, StatCounter says.

According to StatCounter, visit #500,000 to this blog came today from the central Netherlands, visiting this page on torture in Iraq.

There will be fewer (maybe even no) messages for a few days on this blog; as I will have then few, if any, computer access.

But, my readers, don’t worry; things are very different from the situation depicted in the cartoon here. They will be back to normal soon.