Every so often I look at my webserver logs to see by what means people happen to find pages on my web server. It's particularly interesting to look at the web searches that bring people to random blog pages and the like, and it can sometimes be quite amusing just to see the variety.

As one might expect, many of the searches that bring people here are related to my book (since the book's web site is also on this server). There are also a fair number of searches on my name, which are probably book-related as well.

The amusing ones, though, are generally related to a blog post, since I've written about such a variety of random topics over the last year. Here are a few of the searches I see in the log over the last day or so, and the pages they ended up on:

There are plenty more, but you get the idea. It's a whole potpourri of random stuff. As I mentioned, there are also plenty of searches on my name. I often wonder why someone's searching for me, but, alas, the reasons behind someone's search is not in my log files.

Anyway, I saw a search today that brought a smile to my face. Here's the search text:

Ah, it's nice to be rememberd. 🙂

The story about this is the subject of my next post.