Hi everyone, happy Friday. As you know, Fridays are the weekend here in Dubai, so I'm just doing some catching up on administrative stuff this morning.
So we're just shy of 3,000 page views since January 23rd. Wow. About a thousand a month. That's insane.
And with the counter on the site, I can see where people are coming from, and if they googled to get here, what they were googling.
Yesterday we had quite a bit of traffic from the U.S. Pentagon, of all places. That's a little scary to me. Of course, I have never said anything bad about President Bush here, have I?
I did?
Oops. Well, did I mention that we're not American? That we're ... um, British? Blimey, are we Brits. One hundred percent. We love us some Tony Blair, fish n' chips, the Queen and Prince Charles and Not-Diana. Yup. All we watch on the 'telly' is the BBC, and all we listen to the Spice Girls and Robby Williams.
Liz even has a David Beckham tattoo.
Yup. Liz was born in Itchington, around the bend from Berwick Upon Tweed, while I grew up in Poppleton, near Yorkshire.
One hundred percent British.
Naw, just kidding.
We're Canadian.
Anyway, besides our military friends, we also had some visitors from Disney, my former employer, and our friends and family in Maine.
As for the googlers, well, we had a few beauties this week.
In no particular order they were looking for:
painkiller jail dubai
philadelphia cheese products available in dubai
ski dubai accident
pitcher of dubai airport (yes, "pitcher")
fresh mangoes in dubai
corn flakes and the brain cancer (all I can 'pitcher' is Keanan Thompson doing Bill Cosby on this one)
how to get a deaf cat to sleep at night
who much macaroni does uae produce? (yes, "who")
jokes, three thing a pilot does not do while packing for a trip?
issue schedule of the slovak collector coins for the year 2007 (not kidding, could I make that up?)
and lastly, someone from the U.S. Navy was looking for "taco bell dubai".
Sorry sailor, no such place here.
Lastly, the other day before my folks went to Florida (because that's where Mainers go when you get two snowstorms that leave a foot of snow ... in April) my dad was googling the Portland International Jetport's park and fly, and somehow, with whichever words he used, this website came up. He was so amazed he sent an email.
That being said, I have no information about the PWM park and fly. Or really, for most of the other above queries (although this slovak coin collecting thing has my interest piqued, I must say). But somehow with the magic of google, these folks found my website.
So I got to thinking, let's help the next generation of keyword searchers find no answers at all on this page. Here's a paragraph of random words that might, in fact, help people find us:
Photos of Bill Gates drunk in airport bar ... Jenna Elfman car accident carnage ... Posh Spice Victoria Beckham really an alien spy ... George W. Bush surpasses Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln as the best President ever ... David Farragut was not the first Hispanic U.S. Navy Admiral ... Nintendo Wii raised my S.A.T. scores 300 points ... and monkeys monkeys monkeys. |
