Catching Up...

Well, that's the biggest break in blogging for a while, probably because there's not been much to report. A bit of a recap is in order though.
Mum's been here for a week now, which has been wonderful. She's been able to give me and Nabila a lot of help with Julian as well as cooking up lots of gorgeous food.
Band practice last night was great - we're just polishing up the six tracks we'll be taking into the studio in early September.
I was up a tad early for me today, due to an early meeting which is why I guess I'm so knackered now. So much to do, so little time - especially as we're trying to close down a milestone at work.
This evening was spent at Deb's for a very nice meal, though Julian started getting fussy, so off home we go around 8.30pm.
On the side projects front, I've been getting a tad annoyed with the third party site counter utilities (even though they are free), so I've been writing my own, to be hosted locally (keeping up with my effort to host everything useful on my own site rather than linking out, which can cause page load times to get way too long). This is also driven by my wish to be able to analyse the data in any way that I want. So, I wrote a little perl and all the CGI environment variables that are interesting (like DOCUMENT_URI, HTTP_REFERER, REMOTE_HOST, etc... are being collected and stored via the perl dbi into various tables in a sql database that the hosting company provides. For now, the only analysis I'm running is a simple dump of the stats.
Anyhow, it's been an interesting exercise so far (it's been too long since I wrote any perl code in earnest). Next step is to do some useful mining of the data. Once I'm done I'll probaly make all the code available to anyone interested.