Category: Statistics

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Milner Stats Plugin

I’ve been having some major problems with the site over the past few days. Three nights ago I discovered that all the posts newer than January 15th were being wiped each day1.

The errors started after I updated the Jetpack plugin and while that doesn’t prove anything, I was never happy with Jetpack anyway so I decided to see if Claude.ai was up to the task of rolling a fresh stats plugin and to my surprise and delight: I can now present Milner-Stats, a lightweight post view tracking plugin with day, week, month, year, and multi-year breakdowns. No external services; no bloat; and after disabling Jetpack: no more missing posts.

Jetpack has been disabled but the issues continue.

  1. this happened two three times, I believe each time between 6 and 11pm[↩]
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Top 10 Posts of 2025

Happy new year! Here are my most view posts of 2025:1

Stairway to Heaven Backwards Full Lyrics: 8,297
Secret Hitler – Print and Play: 6,210
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang: 4,120
Home page / Archives: 2,960
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang: 891
Apple Photos – How to view all unnamed faces – Solved: 887
About Me: 399
Backmasking Info: 395
Frequently Asked Questions: 231
Tab Cola Commercial: 225

  1. Previous year-end statistics for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2010.[↩]
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Top 10 Posts of 2024

Here’s a quick table of my most view posts in 20241

Stairway to Heaven Backwards Full Lyrics: 8,139
Secret Hitler – Print and Play: 5,616
Home page / Archives: 4,147
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang: 1,833
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang: 578
The Face of Dr. Claw Revealed!: 427
Tab Cola Commercial: 269
Edmonton Spelling Test on Google Forms: 266
Backmasking Info: 247
More Backmasking Songs: 234

  1. Previous year-end stats for 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020[↩]
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2010 Visitor Statistics

These are my Google Analytics stats for 2010.
visitor stats line graph
Here’s how the visitors got here:
visitor stats pie chart
Of those that got here via referring links, here are the top ten sites that brought them here most often:

  1. stumbleupon.com
  2. facebook.com
  3. www3.telus.net
  4. google.com
  5. de.wikipedia.org
  6. en.wikipedia.org
  7. fxp.co.il
  8. images.google.com
  9. digg.com
  10. desgraciashumanas.blogcindario.com

Almost all of the top 50 search results were related to backmasking. Here are the top ten:

  1. stairway to heaven backwards
  2. backmasking
  3. songs played backwards
  4. stairway to heaven
  5. jeff milner
  6. backmasking songs
  7. jeff milner backmasking
  8. backmasked songs
  9. stairway to heaven backwards lyrics
  10. back masking
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Wrong Tomorrow

Wrong Tomorrow is a site that tracks significant predictions by pundits of politics, finance and information technology, over a maximum 5 year time span.

Thomas Friedman: “Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months. But it won’t be won with high rhetoric. It will be won on the ground in a war over the last mile.” 2004-11-11

Jim Cramer: “Google goes down every day and that’s wrong. I don’t believe it’ll stay here long at all. It’ll be back to $500 in no time.” 2008-08-08

Bill Gates: “Two years from now, spam will be solved.” 2004-01-24

It turns out, the trend is that most experts’ predictions are worse than chance.