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mushroom, Sony A7 III with Minolta 200mm f\\4 Macro lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a program called Google Analytics.\u00a0 By virtue of the largest internet surveillance system imaginable it keeps track of every link click on the world wide web.\u00a0 It must be a truly massive system of mainframes buried under the Rocky Mountains and probably uses up enough electricity to power the Eastern Seaboard.\u00a0 And by virtue of this horrific gathering of information, I can glean which of my posts and which of my links are most interesting to the general public.\u00a0 It even tells me whether the links were based on search engine inquiry or direct input or referral from a third-party site.\u00a0 And all of this information is somewhat interesting.\u00a0 For instance, some days I get a link on an aggregation site and the majority of my traffic that day will be from this referral link.\u00a0 In fact, on days like that my overall traffic might be ten times the normal site traffic.\u00a0 And this is good because some of this new traffic might become regular viewers and show up every day.\u00a0 So, the Google Analytics (GA) is valuable to more than just the FBI in their never-ending search for Americans who don\u2019t love Big Brother.<\/p>\n

But I digress.\u00a0 So anyway, about a year and half ago Google started announcing that GA3 would be superseded by GA4 on July 1st<\/sup> 2023.\u00a0 But a year and a half is such along time.\u00a0 It might as well be never.\u00a0 And so, sure enough, I ignored this warning for \u2026 a year and a half.\u00a0 And who knew?\u00a0 Eventually, July 1st<\/sup> 2023 turns out to actually exist.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s 15 hours, 27 minutes, 47.33 seconds<\/strong> away!<\/p>\n

As is my way last night at around 1 am, I managed to get the new GA4 link set up on my site dashboard.\u00a0 Of course, the link isn\u2019t really producing any data but that could take as much as 48 hours according to the helpful scolding I receive from Google whenever I look at the output.\u00a0 So probably for the next few days (and probably much longer) I won\u2019t have GA4 telling me that anybody is out there.\u00a0 Of course, the website dashboard has an access log of the clicks but it doesn\u2019t provide a trendline and totals so it\u2019s not as useful or convenient.\u00a0 What it means is I will be forced to understand yet another new system because of the unstoppable march of PROGRESS<\/strong>.\u00a0 Ah well.<\/p>\n

So, the good news is that you\u2019re all still out there even if Google\u2019s \u201cEye of Sauron\u201d isn\u2019t hooked up to my local palantir.\u00a0 The bad news is that I wasted and am still wasting precious time messing around with these absurd systems that inevitably become less useful and less convenient every time they roll out a new edition.\u00a0 But the upside is that even if the whole system crashes and burns at midnight tonight, it will still be the first day of July and that is cause for celebration in and of itself.\u00a0 For the last ten days it has been cloudy and raining almost every day.\u00a0 But yesterday it cleared up, and the forecast for today and tomorrow is sun.\u00a0 So, I\u2019ll let Silicon Valley\u2019s minions have their way with my analytics and instead concentrate on more promising phenomena like some macro shots of the mushrooms that all that rain has engendered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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