1. Zend_Config
2. Zend_Db
3. Zend_Session_Namespace
4. Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
5. The fact that the Bootstrap has a Bootstrap
6. Zend_Forms
7. Action name CamelCase management

So what does all this non-sense mean? If you happen to have a conforming RSS reader (like, say, Google Reader is now), or a service that understands this stuff (like, say, FriendFeed) then when a PubHubHubbub using website or feed updates, you can find out about it instantly, instead of having to poll for it. This means less network traffic and less work, with instantaneous updates. All the benefits of Twitter, LiveJournal, and Facebook, from the comfort of your own decentralized blogging engine.

Assuming I have all the bits in place. This should update my FriendFeed almost instantaneously. Let’s see.

Update: It works!

First of all, TokBox requires no installation. You can simply visit the TokBox website and it will log you in, alert you to calls, show you a list of your friends, and allow you to leave public and private video messages. However, if you’d prefer to have an installed client, TokBox offers an Adobe Air based install that sits in your task tray and acts just like you’d expect it to.

Secondly, for calling existing users of the service, TokBox does not require an account. For instance, I have an account. If you visit my TokBox page you will see the option to call me or leave me a video message even if you don’t have a ToxBox account. Go ahead. Try it. I’ll even put a shirt on for you, just in case. This makes it very easy to include a link on your website, or send one via email to your mom or grandmother. They don’t have to jump through signup hoops, or do anything more than click the big fat button that says “VIDEO CALL”. And, if you’re not available, it’ll let them leave a message. No install. No signup. No nothing.

It supports video conferencing. This is fairly unique to TokBok. Stickam allows for multiple users to talk and view each other, but it’s done under the pretense of video chatting in the room of a particular user. Other services like UStream and Justin.TV allow you to broadcast to whoever is willing to watch which can be manipulated to act like video conferencing if you’re that dedicated, but it’s not quite the same. TokBox does it easy and simply. It’ll even let you invite non-TokBox users to the conference. You’re provided a URL that, when used, will bring participants right into the group, no account required.

Finally, because it’s just a URL that you visit in a web browser, it works anywhere. Paste the link to your buddy on MSN or Google Talk. Email it to someone. Twitter it. Put it on your blog. Whatever.

There is one subset of Video Chatting that TokBox doesn’t work well for. If you’re into broadcasting live video to many viewers who will not be actively participating in conversation and providing a video stream, you probably want UStream, Stickam, or Justin.TV. This is true even if some of them will be sharing video back or will be participating in typed conversation but you desire the conversation to be one-on-one.

So check it out. Visit TokBox and sign up for an account or visit my TokBox page and see how it works before you commit.

Earlier this year I looked at both Disqus and Intense Debate. I weighed each of their merits and drawbacks. I even had phone conversations with then CEO of Intense Debate, Tom Keller, in hopes of coming to an agreement about the future of Intense Debate. In the end, I finally decided on Disqus.

And now I’m changing my mind.

Comparison

Both services get the core right. You can leave comments on various blogs. Your reputation and comments are stored centrally (view my profile) and go with you from site to site. Threading is supported as is advanced comment moderation and spam control. The devil is in the details.

In the past 9 months, Disqus has added OpenID support. However, it was hacked on in such a poor fashion that it’s not even worth mentioning. Despite my complaints and the complaints of many others, this has not been fixed. Intense Debate already had working OpenID support that behaves as you’d expect, and that hasn’t changed.

Both Disqus and Intense Debate upped their plugin technology to allow moving from system to system that much easier. This shows great pride in their work on both sides and is commendable.

Intense Debate has added Reply By Email functionality. And, in fact, has done so in a lightly better way than Disqus because of the additional moderation options available directly from email. Disqus already had Reply By Email.

Intense Debate still looks nicer. Of course this is subjective. However, I feel that not only is the interface more attractive, it’s easier to use and easier to find what I’m looking for. Disqus has made some small improvements in this arena over the last 9 months, but it’s nothing drastic.

Intense Debate offers integration with Twitter and some really cool integration features with FriendFeed. The appear to have more integration ideas on the horizon. I notice little tiny things all the time. For instance, if I am logged into my blog but not logged into Intense Debate, some magic happens (is it OpenID based? or just plugin based?) and it automatically logs me in. That’s just smart.

Intense Debate was also recently brought into the Automattic family, the fine folks behind WordPress. This leads me to believe that Intense Debate will be the innovator of the two. Features and flexibility are what make tools like this successful and useful.

Intense Debate allows unregistered users to, not only comment, but receive notification of replies. Disqus claims they are adding this, but I haven’t seen it. Even though registration is a piece of cake and has lots of benefits, users are reluctant to fill out another signup sheet. I get that. So, with Intense Debate, they can still get notification of replies.

Disqus wins in only two areas.

First of all, Disqus has a “claim comments” feature. This is nice for those who have been leaving comments on Intense Debate enabled sites without registering and then finally decide to take the plunge. I’d like to see Intenese Debate enable this using both URLs and EMail addresses (both confirmed first, of course). Then as new sites bring their old comments into Intense Debate, I can claim the comments I’ve left there as well.

Secondly, Disqus seems to have a better uptime record. I’ve seen Disqus go down once. I’ve seen Intense Debate fail several times and, considering that I wasn’t using their service, I would imagine that means it probably happened even more often than I saw. However, their move to Automattic should certainly help this. And everyone has growing pains, I’m certainly not going to spend too much time harping on this unless it becomes a real problem.

So, with all of this considered, Intense Debate is the right tool for me right now. And I think it’s the right tool for you too.

Installation

If you have WordPress, installation could not be easier. You install a plugin, you answer a few questions, you sign up for an Intense Debate account, and you’re done. It automatically syncs all of your old comments into Intense Debate and keeps them synced just in case you decide to stop using it in the future.

Of course, my writing this is coming at a bad time. Because of their move to Automattic, Intense Debate is currently closed for adding new blogs to invite only. You can still sign up for an account, but you can’t install it on your blog without an invite code. I managed to get one from my friend Joel (who happens to run a very funny online comic called Hijinks Ensue) but I don’t think they are all that easy to come by. Worry not. Sign up for an account now and let me know your interest and, as soon as I can find some codes I’ll let you know. UPDATE (2008-11-12): IntenseDebate no longer requires an invite code. GO WILD!

Commenters, read this!

(Those of you reading this in LiveJournal, Facebook, or any of the other millions of places this gets syndicated to, you will of course, have to visit my actual site to see and use these features.)

Intense Debate works for you as much as it does for me. If you like a comment (or don’t) use the up (or down) arrows next to each one to promote them. Additionally, take a few seconds and sign up, or just use your OpenID (any Google, Yahoo, MSN, or LiveJournal account is an OpenID, among many others) and you can sign in to Intense Debate like that. The features is provides are well worth it and it only takes a few seconds. At the very least, be sure to supply your email address when you comment so you can get replies sent to you.

There are hundreds of sites begging people to put their cool links into them (delicious.com and the like). But none of them really let you customize the site and make it your own. On top of that, almost every piece of social networking software has some form of link sharing built in (like FaceBook) but most of them are exclusive to the members of that site and require a bunch of hoops to make things start flowing. There’s StumbleUpon which is awesome for finding new content and sharing it but not so good at keeping that content organized or sharing it in a customizable fashion. I find myself sharing lots of things with lots of people in lots of ways, but each of them locked up to a subset of users in it’s own less than desirable way.

And then there is Tumblr.

They are smart enough to not link a single account to a single site. So, any account can post to multiple sites, create sites of its own, or not have any associated sites. They also allow multiple contributors to sites and even allow private posting (though you have to be a member to view).

They offer complete customization even allowing the use of sites like Google Analytics for traffic analysis and Disqus to enable comments.

Their approach to content is intriguing. From short blurbs, to chats, to text posts, to photos, to videos, to audio, to reblogging… the site is based around the concept of formatting differently for different media types and excels at displaying whatever it is you put into it.

It can be used to share links, photos, thoughts, or just about anything else on the web. While most of it’s users tend to focus on sharing found content, it is certainly suited to hosting original content as well.

So, with all that, I’m going to begin using it to share the interesting things I find online. Should I find the content becomming to heavy in anyone topic, starting a new Tumblr specifically for that topic is a piece of cake.

The good news to you is that, you don’t have to sign up for anything to follow along. Just visit my Tumblr and bookmark, subscribe in the RSS reader of your choice, add to LiveJournal (Try LJUser: revjim_tumblr), follow in FriendFeed, ignore it all together or, really, whatever makes you happiest.

I will more than likely start a second Tumblr for the interesting links and photos of a … less than pure nature. Drop me an email if you’re interested in a link.

This Saturday, November 1st, I’m heading out to Eisenhower State Park for some sunrise photography on the lake followed by a nice hike on some of the park’s outstanding trails. The plan is to arrive there around 6:15am.

If you’re interested in photographing, being in photographs, hiking, or just watching the sunrise, let me know.

Yes, this is the morning after Skwid’s Halloween party. That makes it a no-go for many of you.

At the same time, while a lot of what is written there is an ongoing conversation with people you may or may not care about, a lot of important stuff is said too, since the platform is so readily available throughout the day. So I’m going to try something new. Once a day, week, month, year, whatever works out in the end, I’m going to collect the important bits and use them as jumping off points for more thought and clarification.

Please, let me know what you think of this. As I’ve said many times before, while I write these words for me, if you’re not reading them they are pointless. Let me know if you like these all in one big post like this, or if I should spread them out into tinier posts throughout the day, or if I should just not do it at all.

# – We have been Wiifitted. Wee! Or rather, Wii!

It started out as a silly idea. I thought the WiiFit was an absurd idea for a “game” and at the same time, an absurd way to “work out”. In my mind, it didn’t fit either role very well. In practice, I was 100% right. However, it does have it’s own sense of charm. It takes all of the instruction, timing, counting and tracking out of exercise. While it doesn’t make certain you are doing the exercises correctly, it at least tries to make sure you stay balanced while you do them. That plus everything else, and it’s about 50% as good as a personal trainer that comes to your house whenever you want her to. And cheaper too.

I particularly like the strength exercises, the yoga practice, and the step aerobics. But, like others, # I find myself wishing the step aerobics were more varied. There are only two “courses” after which comes “free step” which is quite boring. A couple of people think that there will eventually be a Wii Step Aerobics game that will capitalize on this wish of mine. They’re probably right. So release the damn thing already.

# – I’m VERY sick to my stomach. Too much coffee, not enough food. Email me distractions for the next few hours until I can get lunch. Please!

As I get older I’m starting to realize that food can affect me quite a bit more than it used to. Too much of one thing or not enough of another and it can really throw me off. However, I haven’t quite figured out what’s good and what’s bad, what can be tolerated and what should be avoided at all costs.

Yesterday I had 6 “cups” (per the lines on my coffee pot) of coffee in the morning. By 10am I was spinning like crazy and very sick to my stomach. At almost 1pm I got something heavy to eat. Within an hour I felt 75% better. It wasn’t until a had a little down time and another meal that I felt 100%. But, by the end of the day, I felt okay enough to get on the Wii Fit again.

A special thanks to those who sent distractions. I find that, for many of my ailments, keeping me from thinking about them is the easiest way to get around them.

# – Time to build up my harem. Apps are being accepted! Especially if you like stairwells. Maybe this is a good time to use Craigslist. :)

This is a case of “ha ha only serious“. It’s clearly a joke. I don’t have a harem and therefore, don’t have a harem to build up. At the same time, the group of friends and special people that I share physical closeness with is dwindling for various reasons. I certainly don’t require a large group by any means, but, those that remain are largely unavailable. Physical closeness is one of those things that I crave and yet, at the same time, can be absolutely petrified of. It’s a need I don’t fully understand and yet feel very strongly about. It’s comforting. It’s safe. It’s sexy. It’s silly. It’s warm. It’s freeing. And, sometimes, it’s dangerous. All good things.

So, while I don’t actually have a harem, if physical closeness is something your situation allows and something you desire, then, please, really, “applications are being accepted! Especially if you like stairwells.”

Should I use CraigsList for such a purpose. Probably not. I’m better at being close with friends than I am with strangers. But, at the same time, it seems to be well suited to finding such new friends.

# – wanted list: friends: skype, stumble; wishes; harem members; photo: subjects, partners; dreams; dinner friends; progress; peace.

This doesn’t require too much explanation, really. It’s a list of things that I currently desire. Not matieral things. Emotional things. Mental things.

Skype Friends. Check out Skype. It’s the best cross-platform Video/Audio Chatting application I can find. You don’t have to have a camera or a headset to enjoy it either. Sure, it’s more fun if you do, but not required.

Stumble Friends. Check out StumbleUpon. It’s a way of browsing new, interesting websites, as well as sharing new websites that you like with your friends. It’s very easy to use and quite addictive. I’m looking for people to share their interests with me, for people interested in sharing my interests, and hopeful that people will Favorite my photographs so that others will be introduced to them through the world of Stumble.

Harem Members. See above.

Photo Subjects. It’s been ages since I’ve done a portrait session. My studio has been torn down, which makes this harder. But that doesn’t reduce my desire to create and to use the human body as a subject and muse. If you’re interested in being photographed, I’d love to hear from you. I’m specifically looking for people who have free time on weekends to go out to interesting places and be photographed in nature. Additionally, I’m looking for someone who would like to be photographed in the rain. I’d like to set up all the details and logistics so that the next time it’s raining, all it’ll take is a quick phone call and we’ll both be ready to go.

Photo Partners. This is similar to the above, except instead of being in front of my camera, you have your own to stand behind, or, at least, enjoy walking around in various places and stopping for lots of photos. It can get fairly boring to be out alone all the time. I’m looking for someone to share these times with. Someone to lean on for encouragement, to share the waiting with, and to get excited with.

Dinner Friends. See my post from yesterday — you’re invited to dinner — for more information.

Wishes. Dreams. Progress. Peace. These are all self-explanitory.

I can’t seem to get my iPod to recognize under Vista. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled. I’ve tried Media Monkey, USB Mass Storage Drivers, and even resorted to installing the real deal — iTunes *gasp*. All to not avail. It simply doesn’t work.

To make matters worse, my frustration in using VMWare under Vista is growing as well. Despite all the other troubles I’m having, it seems that the “NAT connection” available under Vista does allow my Contivity VPN client to function properly. Other people are reporting success on other host OSes, so it must be a Vista thing. I even jumped over to VirtualBox and the Workstation version of VMWare just to see if either would make a difference. Nope. In most cases, I use a Bridged connection. But in one very specific and important circumstance, I need a NAT connection. And it just isn’t working.

When I return from California on Friday my every effort will be focused on finding XP drivers and getting rid of this abomination of an operating system.

Microsoft: You’ve some how taken the world’s most popular operating system (regardless of whether that popularity was earned) and turned it into a festering pile of rubbish. In terms of software and hardware compatibility, Vista has very little Edge of Linux and is surpassed by Mac OS. Hello foot! Sorry about the bullet hole!

My employer — heretofore known as the Great White Devil (as coined by Joel Watson of HijinksEnsue) or GWD for short — was giving me some after my request for a RAM upgrade to the impossibly small 512kb that I have now due to the new Encrypted status of my laptop and it’s inability to cope with said Encryption given its resources. So, I just went out and bought a laptop. Of course, GWB requires that any machine on its network be a company asset so using a personal laptop is not permitted and is enforced through the use of a managed desktop suite. Unwilling to give them access to the entire machine (since it is, after all, mine), I decided a virtual machine was the next best option.

I installed VMWare Server and, after 3 long hours of a Windows XP installation, driver installation, software installation, and laptop encryption, I had a VMWare image that mostly worked. There were, of course, a few problems.

First of all, when using VIsta (yeah, cringe) as a Host OS with VMServer or VMWare Player, the clock in the guest OS has a tendency to be inaccurate. I was showing up at meetings early and finding my days a lot shorter than they should be until I realized this little bug.

These few lines of code in C:\ProgramData\WMWare\VMWare Server\config.ini seemed to solve that problem. Of course, you’ll want to algter tje cpuKhz to reflect the actual speed of your processor.

host.cpukHz = “2000000″
host.noTSC = “TRUE”
ptsc.noTSC = “TRUE”
processor0.use = “FALSE”
processor1.use = “TRUE”

The second annoying problem is that, when starting the first VM after a reboot, Vista would hang for 3-5 minutes solid. It would hang so hard that the mouse would even stop moving. In the same config.ini file, I beleive the following lines corrected this, but switched to VMWare Player shortly there after so I can’t be sure.

host.TSC.noForceSync = “TRUE”

The final problem with VMWare Server, for which I have been unable to find a fix, is that Wireless Network cards simply will not bridge properly. I read a couple of people having the same trouble and suggesting various fixes including reconfiguing the Network Interfaces as Administrator and such. No matter what I tried, it didn’t work.

So, I switched to VMWare Player. Of course you can’t have Player and Server installed at the same time, so I had to uninstall Server first. And Player wont alter the VM settings in anyway so, if I want to change anything, I have to go back to installing Server first, which is annoying. But, aside from that Player does not have the same problems with the Wireless Network Bridge that I had with Server. It did however have the “clock too fast” issue mentioned above, so those config lines were still needed.

It’s working pretty solid now. Of course, with the crippled nature of VMWare Player, I’d really like to switch to something else. VirtualBox looks promising. I played with it a bit and rather liked it. Unfortunately, when it reads my prepared VMWare image and boots into Windows, it is unable to find a driver for the Network Interface it sees. So, while it boots just fine, without a working network adapter it’s pretty useless. I’ll play around with it some more in the future and see if I can make some more progress.

I’m almost certain I didn’t have a kernel upgrade or software install in between the last time it worked and now because I remember upgrading all of my packages and doing a reboot afterwards. lspci shows my card in the list. However the bcm43xx driver doesn’t seem to operate it any more.

There’s no message in kern.log when I plug it in or take it out, which I expected there would be. One thing I didn’t try, now that I think about it, is pulling the card out and then doing an lspci to see if the card was still listed. But that wouldn’t have solved the problem, it would have only provided more information. I tried reloading the PCMCIA modules, but that didn’t help. I tried booting with it inserted and with it not inserted, but that made no difference. I considered upgrading all my packages again but I have no wired access here so there’s no way I can do that at this time.

If this were my only operating system I’d be sitting dead in the water. I’d have no personal computer and, if I used it for work, I wouldn’t be able to do my job. Thankfully, I have other options. The card still seems to be working just fine in Windows XP. Of course, my current use of Windows XP has other problems. But that’s due to my employer, not due to the software I’m running.

I’ll play with it a bit more when I get home and have some free time to waste (*choirs of angels laugh down from the heavens*). But, if I can’t figure it out fairly quickly, I’ll just continue using XP. It’s a shame. I really love Linux I just can’t deal with these kind of interruptions. I can’t tolerate wasting this much time just to get things to “normal”.

Skype Me: jimreverend

ln -s / /cow

It seems as though one of the installation scripts has this path hardcoded in it, and, without it, these scripts fail.

I hope this helps you if you should even encounter the same problem.

I assumed that, in the end, I’d boot a real Linux partition with a real Linux boot loader. However, this is not the case. It seems that my laptop, and apparently many others, favor booting only the USB drives that contain certain partition types. Fat16 is one of them.

Booting the long way ’round (not to be confused with the wrong way ’round)
So instead of actually installing Linux, I ended up making a copy of the Ubuntu Live CD into a 750MB Fat16 partition. Then I used SYSLINUX to make that partition bootable. Then I included some Kernel options to overlay an 8GB ext3 partition on top of it at boot time in order to allow for real changes to be made to the working file system. This gives a two layered approach where the initial boot is done from Fat16, and at some point, the files in the ext3 partition are dropped on top of it and, from that point, all changes are reflected on the ext3 partition only. Then I formatted the remainder of the drive as Fat32 in order to allow it to be used as a data partition for multiple operating systems. And viola!

This has a few disadvantages. First, a 5400 Bus Powered USB drive is already pretty slow. This whole shuffle from one to the other makes it even slower. On my aging laptop I’m looking at about 4 to 5 minutes from power up to usable desktop. However, once booted, performance is as expected.

Secondly, upgrading the kernel is no longer an easy operation. Or, rather, I don’t think it will be. I haven’t actually tried it. Since the initial kernel is held on the Fat16 partition and the working system is held in the overlaid ext3 partition, I’m thinking that upgrading the kernel using standard tools would only upgrade files that couldn’t be reached at boot time. I think that, instead, if I need a kernel upgrade, I’ll have to update the kernel in the Fat16 partition, then update the support files on it and the ext3 partition. Probably a very manual process. Or, possibly, I could just recreate my Fat16 partition with a newer Live CD. I’m not sure. Anyone done this before?

Post Installation
The good news is, it’s working! Everything else is standard Linux massage, with which I’m sorely out of practice.

My Wireless PCMCIA card (Linksys WCP54G) was not immediately available. I had to use ndiswrapper and find a Windows XP driver in order to make it work. Not awesome, but it works. It’s nice that this is even an option.

Despite many people telling me otherwise, Java and Debian/Ubuntu have never been an easy thing for me to manage. The JVM that comes with Ubuntu 7.10 is a 1.5 JVM. For a specific application, I need JVM 1.6 or higher. I’m still struggling on how to upgrade this. I seem to be at the latest version available in the default repositories, but that’s using gij. Maybe I need another Java packaging or possibly another repository? Any advice?

I’m also in need of a photograph manager — tagging, sorting, thumbnails, resizing, etc. I’m hoping for something that will actually update the metadata in the file and that will read Nikon RAW (D300 NEFs). This way I can easily resynchronize in Lightroom to pick up these changes. At least that’s why my fingers are crossed. I’m looking at Google’s Picasa2 as well as GPhoto. Any other recommendations?

All in all, despite the migration pains, slow booting, and the search for new applications to fill in some gaps, I’m pleased with the results. Thanks to those who threw in their $0.02.

I popped out the laptop hard drive, plugged in the portable USB drive and ran through the Ubuntu install with everything at the default.

I had some trouble with the Disk Partitioner despite the fact that I was letting it have the entire disk. I think the cable I was using to power the drive wasn’t up to par. So, I switched to a different cable but ended up partitioning it manually because I’d already tried it 5 times the other way and just wanted it to work. I’m pretty damn familiar with disk partitioning and none of the options I selected or buttons I pressed had anything to do with which partitions would be made bootable or where the boot loader would be installed. Therefore, I’m fairly certain that I didn’t mess anything up this way.

After manually partitioning the install went right through. It said it was done, I hit enter, popped out the CD and rebooted.

At which point it told me it couldn’t find any bootable devices.

At least when I did it my way the BiOS considered it bootable and just couldn’t boot it.

So what’s wrong now?

Is it really my partitioning? I mean, really?

Or is it the drive? Well, two drives, cause the flash card install I tried didn’t work either. And when I hook it to a running linux box it looks fine. So does the flash card. But I’m sure they could be messed up in some way. Maybe the manufacturers of both of these devices have deliberately disabled USB booting?

Or maybe it’s my BiOS? These two machines are nothing alike and bought at very different times with very different feature sets. Both BiOSes claim to support this, but I’m sure it’s possible that they are both broken, right?

Maybe this Ubuntu disk has a faulty install method? I mean 7.10 is widely used and certainly widely tested, but maybe I’ve found a bug that no one has ever seen before. Maybe I should go buy a regular hard drive and put it in a machine and install Ubuntu normally just to see if that works?

Or maybe… just maybe… possibly… the boot loader just isn’t installing correctly. Yeah. I think I’ll go with that one.

I’m not a grub/lilo expert… I know just enough to get by. If any of you have any suggestions as to why that part of this isn’t working, I’m all ears. Thanks in advance.

Maybe Ubuntu really does have some lot of undocumented Grub magic that ONLY happens when you don’t manually partition a disk. In the mean time, I’ll reinstall that way.

Google Analytics claims I got 16 hits to my entire Photoblog yesterday. This is typical for the number of hits it claims I get on most days that I post a less popular photo. It kinda make me tilt my head sideways a bit to think that I don’t have enough friends combined with people searching for photos of scantily clad women to get more than 16 hits total, but ok. Whatever.

WordPress.com Stats claims I got 14 hits on the same day. I’m sure there are some timezone overlaps, which might account for some. Additionally, I’m not sure that WordPress Stats counts hits to the Archive pages, of which Google Analytics claims I got 2. So that makes sense. The two jive with each other in that regard.

However, the photos that each stats program claims were viewed is quite different. Google only shows 4 hits to yesterday’s photo. WordPress only shows 2. WordPress shows lots of different photos that were viewed. Google shows 6 hits to the photoblog front page that aren’t indicated in WordPress.

As if that wasn’t all misleading and very skewed, the page itself has a view counter on it (visible below the photo). It’s presented there by a plugin that, supposedly, doesn’t count *MY* traffic (which WordPress.com stats claims to filter out as well). It shows 46 views for that particular photo.

To get one last point of comparison the web server stats show 53 hits on that particular image page. Now, this will count all of my traffic as well, and isn’t limited to just yesterday. With that in mind, 53 hits and the 46 views claimed by the view plug in seem to jive.

I can understand some discrepancy in the Google numbers, as some browsers don’t allow Javascript. But 4 vs 46?! That’s a 90% loss.

Even if I accept that 90% of all hits are on browsers that don’t support javascript or have javascript turned off, why aren’t the WordPress.com Stats correct? Can someone please explain this to me? Because it’s driving me crazy! Do I just have bad tech karma or are other people seeing this too?