Brainiac

Reece has been getting loads of visitors to his site by mentioning the Channel 10 tv show Brainiac on his blog. Thought I would name drop and test if it works for me, prolly not but ho hum testing is the way to learn/improve. And now I have an excellent way to see if by writing about the Channel Ten show Brainiac will bring visitors to my blog/site. I signed up with Google Analystics.... oooooohhhhh man it is grrreeeeeeaaat!!! It gives you so many stats about your website/blog. All you have to do is include a few lines of code into the head of your page/pages and then Google Analystics will do the rest. Just a few of the nice things it tells you, is keywords searched for in search engines to find your page, location of people visiting your site, if visitors are new visitors or returning, how long they stayed, how many pages they viewed, most popular page etc. In short if you have a website then you must get this.. its FREEEEEEE!! Get it/Find out more here: http://www.google.com/analytics/

Here's the "Marketing Summary" results for my site, www.nathankowald.com

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Top 5 Sources Visits
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yahoo 7
google 4
adelaideindex.com 2
images.google.com 2

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Top 5 Keywords
chilloutzone.de/files/05062803
Who is Nathan Luno
"spot on" music
chilloutzone files 05062803
www.chilloutzone.de/files/05062803

Most people find my site through this blog which is pretty kool.

I have found a pretty good London band which I really like at the moment. They are called "Test Icicles" for about 3 hours I could not get my brain to pronounce it, testicles no no testicilails damn .. then i told my sister about them and it just came out "test.eye.si.kels" yay... So yeah i "acquired" the new album by them last night the new album is called "For Screening Purposes Only" and its pretty alright. My favourite songs on it are "Circle Square Triangle", "What's Your Damage" and "Dancing on Pegs". How I came to find them is through my 3rd closest Last.FM neighbour, Gem_CutOff I was checking her stats, then visited her myspace page and on her myspace page she had a Test Icicles song playing and I heard it and instantly liked it. For more info about Test Icicles visit these sites:
Test Icicles - MySpace
Test Icicles - Official Website
Oh and the song, "Maintain the Focus" is good, listening to it now.

Hmm wat else wat else, i watched disc 2 of Little Britain dvd tonight, the documentary, its really good. Man I love Little Britain soooo much, i would love to do a sketch show like this. Today Ive been feeling pretty down and negative and as Is the case when I get like this I have been getting pissed off at myself for various things which i shall list to get off my chest/initiate seed of change?

1. Never having any money - not saving
I am currently pretty bad with my money. I pay my bills on time and all. I just don't really save my money and when I do I end up spending my savings :( I keep telling myself, Im 22 now going on 23 in less than a month, I need to be saving for a house instead of just wasting my money away on cd's, dvd's, clothes, FOOD. I really need to work on this but feel helpless as to what to do. I know its as simple as just don't spend my money but I do anyway. My sister Kate is really good with her money, she loves saving.

2. Not getting enough sleep
This comes from my living very much in the present and doing what feels good NOW. The result of this is late nights up on the computer, not caring about how I will feel say the next morning because for NOW Its all good. But being tired at work kanes me, I get really fidgety, angry, moody etc and this is not a good state to be in when all I want to be is productive and helpful etc. So need to go to bed earlier.

3. Myself
I piss myself off a bit. I think negatively too much especially when tired, sometimes when people ask me questions I answer the question directly and not see their good intention of "taking an interest". Things like this, especially when at family events I get negative for whatever reason :(. Anyway no good will come from going into these things in detail, will only make me focus on this stuff more which is not how to deal with it.

Anyway now that vent is over with i reckon i will go rent "24 hour party people". My friend Churchie who i went to school with just told about it on msn and to "go out now and get it". So you know what, I think I will. Adios Amigos!

Posted by Nathan Kowald @ 8:37 PM