Caught by the torrent of life

A trecut un an (si vreo doua zile) de cand imi conduc masina proprie.
Intr-un an am reusit sa consum 947 de litri de benzina care m-au costat cam 5000RON, adica aproximativ 5.3RON/l.
Am parcurs 12.333km, ma asteptam sa trec de 10.000, eram sigur ca nu voi ajunge la 15.000.
Aproximativ 7,68 l/100km, aproximativ 1000 km/luna. Undeva la 40RON/100km.

O fi bine?

Pe langa asta, ar mai fi cheltuieli "auxiliare".
Luat cauciucuri de iarna, 4 bucati la 1140RON. Presupunand ca ma tin 5 ani (5 ierni), asta ar insemna 228 RON/an in fiecare an. Evident, in primul an o sa simt impactul cel mai mare, dar pentru calcule o sa impart suma in mod egal.
Inlocuire cauciucuri iarna/vara: 2x65RON adica 130RON pe an.
Prima revizie 524RON - 65RON (am schimbat si cauciucurile, dar aceasta a treia schimbare ar trebui sa intre in al doilea an de folosinta) inseamna 459RON.
Asigurari: CASCO 2400RON (aprox), RCA 500RON (aprox), rovinieta 120RON (aprox)
Asta ar insemna 3837RON cheltuieli sa zicem indirecte. Adica... putin peste 30RON/100km.


Wow. 70RON la suta de kilometri. la o medie de 1000 km/luna, asta inseamna 700 RON cheltuiti in fiecare luna. Ba e putin mai rau, pentru ca nu cheltui 700RON in fiecare luna, ci mare parte din toate cheltuielile enumerate mai sus le platesc intr-o singura luna. Oricum, aproape jumatate din suma asta se duce numai pe lucruri... as spune inutile, dar vorba aia, daca nu le ai, e de rau... (asigurari, cauciucuri)

Eh, acum parca mi se pare ok costul ala de 40RON/100km pentru combustibil... :D

So, I’ve been thinking about this kind of post for quite some time now, and I guess it’s a good idea to write it now, since the logs are getting full.
The stats that I’m about to show refer to web traffic on the blog and I will only point out some of the general stats and some of the interesting facts about this low-traffic-count blog of mine :D

Ok, first things first, the Statistics Tool I use can be installed (the code, I mean) from here, and you can see the tool on the main page if you scroll a loooong way down (on the right, where it says “statcounter” – just above the country flags).

The code was installed January 2009, that means approximately 2 months ago, and since then:

- I’ve had 304 total pageloads

- 274 unique visitors (based on IP addresses, which means if you’ve got a DHCP assigned address that has changed since then, you have been counted more than once), of which 166 were first time visitors and 108 were returning visitors.

- since the posts can be seen on the main page, the most popular page is dorinp.blogspot.com (235 entries) or www.dorinp.blogspot.com (34 entries); second place goes to this page (12 views), while this page is the third most viewed (10 views)

- first entry pages (first page to be viewed – url followed by visitors) are:
1. main blog page, of course (108 + 23 counts)
2. this post (9 counts)
3. March09 archive (7 counts)

- So, how do people find out about my blog?
1. most of them (119) don’t have a referring link, which means they came straight to the blog
2. 60 found me via The Creatrix
3. 23 found me via a Facebook personal page (thank you Canada!)
4. the rest found me either through search engines, e-mail notifications or other blogs

- Search engine wars: can hardly be called wars, all people who found me via a search engine have been using Google:


- 54% of the visitors were using Firefox 3.0 (+ 5% for Firefox 2.0), while only 11% were using IE 7.0 (+ 24% for IE 6.0). Heeey, someone’s accessed the blog using a Blackberry!!!

- as for screen resolution most visitors are using either 1024x768 or 1280x1024, which is both good and bad, since it was designed on 1152x864…


- Win XP rulez. At least 80% of the visitors are using it :). Yet, I’ve got visits from Mac, Linux, even iPhone and Symbian. Niiiceee….



- Interesting visitor activity:
11.3.09: ip 86.121.19.236 reads the blog (13 recorded visits throughout the day), and probably lets IP 89.34.15.43 know about it, because the second IP returns 8 times on the same day and reads all the archives :)


So, a big thank you goes out to TheCreatrix, for getting me so much traffic!
Another big thank you goes to Quick Silver for adding me to her blogroll and commenting from time to time :)
A big thank you also goes to Dei-Dei for watching me (yet you never comment... ntz ntz ntz... you should be ashamed :P and should restart posting stuff on your blog...)
Of course, quite a great thank you goes out to all of you who keep coming back to the blog but never comment, or comment without providing a link (which I could put here, for others to see...), and...
Last but not least, a big thank you for those who just stumble across this webpage!