Life Less Literary

I dunno what’s going on here - a while back I added a JavaScript to this web page which tracks referrers, for no good reason other than I wanted to see once in a while where people are coming to my site from (I know I can get that from my logs as well, but they’re a lot harder to get at and analyse, and the software pre-installed on my web server is shite). So anyway, the JavaScript stuff has sat there in my links bar, churning out the odd link, nothing much of interest until the day I got metafied, which was a bit exciting. And then today it started slowing matters down inordinately, because the JavaScript loads off somebody else’s server which is obviously choking. So I moved it to the bottom of the page where it can’t do any harm (at least, can’t stop the rest of the page from downloading in the meantime).

So I’ve just looked at it again for the first time in weeks - and I see that people have, apparently, clicked here from Peep Show Stories and Daily Kos. But I went to those sites and couldn’t find where they link to sumption.org. Grepped my logs and didn’t find them as referrers. So… I’m baffled. I’m particularly interested in discovering what it is on my site that they link to, and in what context. OK, I’ll come clean (hmm, interesting choice of phrase), I’m particularly interested in discovering what it is on my site that Peep Show Stories links to, and in what context. I’m also wondering whether this links thing actually works, or whether they’re just confuzzing me with somebody else.

Whatever. I’ll probably never find out. But if anyone reading this does happen to have arrived via Peep Show Stories (or the Daily Kos), please could you take a moment to tell me a little more about how you got here (in fact, I wanna know that whoever you are and however you got here… please leave comments:)