UM Browser Statistics.
| IE 7.0 | 138,920 | 58.55% |
| FireFox 3 | 55,149 | 23.24% |
| IE 6.0 | 21,070 | 8.88% |
| IE 8.0 | 19,965 | 8.41% |
| FireFox 2 | 2,141 | 0.90% |
I’m not entirely sure why i like browser statistics so much but i do, so you’re going to hear about them. In April i posted about UM’s Browser Stats, and this is an update with some fancy graphs from OpenOffice.org Calc.
| March | April | May | June | |
| IE 7.0 | 66.87% | 64.06% | 60.21% | 58.56% |
| FireFox 3 | 22.03% | 23.04% | 26.71% | 23.25% |
| IE 6.0 | 8.59% | 7.76% | 7.67% | 8.88% |
| IE 8.0 | 0.96% | 3.80% | 3.87% | 8.42% |
| FireFox 2 | 1.54% | 1.34% | 1.55% | 0.90% |
I see the trend away from IE7 (blue line) and towards IE8 (green line), but why… WHY is IE6 (yellow line) usage going up? WHY? the rise very suttle and was actually declining between March and June. One thing to take into consideration is, of course, the user base. Our semester ended in the middle of may, and all of the students living in the dorms with thier new back to school laptops left campus, but the stuborn faculty, who are unwilling to move away from Windows 200 & IE6 stuck around. The number of hits our site gets drops dramatically when school is out (March: 398,585 to June: 237,245).
Kettle House – A Missoula Place
Yesterday some friends and I headed down to the Kettle House. The Kettle house is the sort of place where anyone can go and feel at home, even my four year old. There is such a wide variety of folks that frequent the K-Hole among the usual good-beer-seeking drinking crowd, there are always a couple of young kids, there are folks reading (below). I sampled the Honey Hefeweizen, the Amber, and the Eddy Out Pale Ale. Jessica and Collin both enjoyed the Root Beer, which may be the best I’ve ever tasted. I have to say the the Eddy Out was probably my favorite (it was also my third…). I took a few photos with my BlackBerry, so the quality is lacking.
Everyone in Missoula Must have these shoes.
Recently I broke down and bought a pair of Chocos, and now I can look just like every other Missoulian. I’m surprised at how comfortable they are, I was a bit sceptical at first.
This fellow looked very eloquent sipping his beer and reading.
Aspirations
For a while i’ve been following Montana Outdoors a photo blog that is updated nearly everyday with amazing photos. While i was trying to decide weather to buy a point and shoot or a DSLR, i was inspired by the photos in this blog, and decided that some day i too may be able to take photos like this.
I’m a long way from being able to take photos like Montucky, and i’m learning a lot as i go. Some of the photos i find most interesting are his photos showing the movement of water.
I took this photo with the Canon XT & Kit lens
Montucky took this photo with the Nikon D80
