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Saturday Mornin' Update

Well, I was gonna read a few blogs so as to try to find a winner of the stupidest person of the day for today, but my dialup connection decided to be a bit uncooperative. However, I noticed somethin' that I thought might be of interest to certain number of you.

I usually load several blogs at one time, because with the slow load up time over the dialup, some load faster than others, and I am usually lucky enough to fine a new one loaded up by the time I am ready to read another one. This mornin' I started loadin' blogs in the followin' order:

1. Dean's World
2. Mudville Gazette
3. i am always right
4. Little Tiny Lies aka Hog on Ice
5. Wizbang!
6. suburban blight
7. A small Victory
8. The Introverted Exhibitionist
9. Dog Snot Diaries
10. Outside the Beltway
11. Country Store
12. Ravenwood's Universe
13. Flitting Here and There
14. CrabAppleBlog
15. Burnt Fuse
16. Insults Unpublished and
17. CaughtintheXfire

I had read the first post on Mudville Gazette while the other blogs were continuing to load, but the connection died while attemptin' to load whatever was under Greyhawk's first link on that top post. From the evidence I saw by scannin' the remainder of the blogs I had attempted to load, I was of the opinion the connection had been open long enough to have loaded them all. However, such was not the case, and here are my observations:

• Although it had the longest time to load, havin' been the first link pressed, Dean's World loaded nothin' but the masthead.
• Mudville Gazette's blog was fully loaded except for the masthead which was only about half loaded
• Little Tiny Lies aka Hog on Ice was nothin' but an empty white page
• Wizbang!'s side column had not loaded but entries were readable
• suburban blight's entries were readable but side column loaded only partially, stopped short of calendar
• Outside the Beltway loaded nothin' but the masthead
• Country Store was nothin' but an empty white page
• Only the masthead area on Ravenwood's Universe was not completely loaded
• The blog posts had loaded on Flitting Here and There but the side column was not loaded
• The light bulb masthead did not load on Burnt Fuse but otherwise was fully loaded and last but not least
• CaughtintheXfire was fully loaded except for the masthead

Any blog not mentioned in the preceding observations had fully and completely loaded.

Now except for Dean's World, Tiny Little Lies aka Hog on Ice, Outside the Beltway and Country Store, even those blogs that had not fully loaded were readable. Country Store is on blog*spot, so that is hit and miss at best anyway. For some reason, I recollect that I have found the other three to be especially slow loadin' in the past, as well.

So, take these observations for what they are worth and do with them what you want. I just thought I would share this bit of information for those who might like to have some idea about what effect a slow dailup has on their blog loadin' time.

Speakin' of time, my early day bloggin' time has expired and I still don't have a Stupidest Person of the Day to post --- so I am gonna open the floor for nominations. Leave your nominations in the comments and I will make my decision from among such when I return.

Now let's see if I can get my dead connection to disconnect, so I can reconnect it long enough to post this. ;) Nope, looks like we gotta reboot. George, I hate dialup.

Posted by notGeorge at May 15, 2004 11:33 AM