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Dashalytics, the dashboard widget for the Google Analytics Service came out a couple days ago. Looks and functions a lot better.

One big issue I had with the previous version was that the height was variable based on the data you would open up. For example, if you wanted to see the data for the past 24 hours, you would be met with a drop down menu that would stretch for half the screen describing the visitor stats per hour. Yeah, it’s kinda hard without a visual, but just trust me, it wasn’t pretty.

Now, it’s a little bit clearer, but… it’s less granular. I can only get data for the last three months; no more, no less.

Give Them What They Want!

If you look closely at the screenshot… you’ll notice something. And no, not that “josh kim” search on technorati. I do it from time to time to see what’s going on with the rankings and so forth.

I didn’t know that How to Hack Xanga, Kinda was such a visited link. I guess I should write a follow-up. Seems like plenty of people want something like it.

Which brings me to another realization about this blog: I need to reach a balance. In the early days of… whatever blogging platform I was on (be it my own, Xanga, or WordPress)… I used my “journal” to write a lot of personal things. Back in those days, I was learning more and more about web development, so it would have been a perfect time to bring about a more technical blog. But I decided exploring more deeply the inner workings of Josh Kim was more important.

To this day, I feel like I want to keep writing about thing that interest me, and somehow apply it to the general field of computing. From relational issues to philosophical debates to oddly-misshapen clouds… I want to write it all down and share it. Heck, I want to write about why I haven’t posted in the past two weeks. I want to write about what I’m doing. But you see, all this… isn’t very useful to the whole lot of you. So instead, I’ll try to make my daily posts worthwhile. And no, it won’t just be all nerdy.

Why do I make this point again? It’s because I lost sight of some things again.

Difficulty of Writing on a Blog

It’s quite difficult, if you think about it… to set aside at least an hour of writing and editing per post (if it’s a good lengthy one), or even multiple short bursts of writing. TextMate Blogging Bundle does make the overhead cost less, but it’s still amazingly painful to actually think about the structure and the flow of a post.

As with a lot of things I trivialized, writing on my blog is another. Of course, saying it’s the hardest thing ever and never doing it again… that’s wrong, too.

Ah, balance, why do you elude me?

I’m going to try and go back to my daily posting schedule starting tomorrow. Hopefully, with pictures… need to go find a good stock photograph site. Wait, that could be a post all in itself.