Tuesday, May 31, 2005

is this you?


do you recognize yourself through the eyes of my computer? This is a simplified version of what you look like as you browse around the web, leaving trace evidence of yourself on every page you hit.
If you also have your own webpage or blog, perhaps your curiosity has caused you to wonder who is visiting. You learn to take a glance and notice patterns and referrals and comments and IPs, and to match them all up and eventually you can tell who hits your page and when.
All this ramble comes because early this afternoon, this lucky bloghopper became the 20,000th visitor to the cyberdeck. Virtual bells and whistles sounded and digital confetti fell and a crowd of cyber employees gathered 'round to sing a ridiculous song that I'll spare you from having to listen to now.
A tot board popped up and displayed the number, 20,000 and then listed a number of prizes to be awarded to the lucky person behind this IP.
Speak up, identify yourself, and claim your prize of a gift certificate of: 1)unlimited free visits to the cyberdeck, 2) 20,000 cyberdeckbucks to be spent in the cyberdeck cyberstore, 3) all you can drink Sumatra Coffee to be consumed in a visit to the physical deck upon which the cyberdeck is published.

In related news: the abbott will receive an assortment of cyberdeck prizes for being the referrer of the 20,000th cyberdeck visitor. Thanks for the assist, gdwill.

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