I get to meet many online portal/website sales reps in my day job. Before committing into taking up ad space on their sites, it's a norm to ask for their site stats. Usually, on the stats, there will be monthly result of the site's visit, page view, hits, etc. like the below screenshot.

On a closer look of the above stats, some of you might be thinking what's the difference "Pages" and "Hits"? Many often refer "Hits" as "Page Views". You're not entirely wrong because there are two types of "Hits". The hits that are stated on the above stats result are the hits recorded by log files, and interpreted by log analysis. A second type of "Hits" are counted and displayed by a simple hit counter. Hit counters record one hit for every time a webpage is viewed and it does not distinguish unique visitors. Therefore, stats result "Hits" are referring to the former.

Each file sent to a browser by a web server is an individual hit. Whereas, a pageview is each time a visitor views a page on your website, regardless of how many hits are generated. Pages are comprised of files. Every image in a page is a separate file. When a visitor looks at a page (a pageview), they may see numerous images, graphics, pictures etc. and generate multiple hits. For example, if you have a page with 10 pictures, then a request to a server to view that page generates 11 hits (10 for the pictures, and one for the html file). A page view can contain hundreds of hits.

So, don't get mislead into thinking that the site got ten of thousands visits a day when a portal/website sales rep boast about his/her site popularity by referring the "Hits" figure on the stats to you.

Here's music for those who used to hang out at Zouk's MTV Bar in the mid-90s.
Have a good weekend!!!

Just the other day, I read about a Singaporean businessman paid S$1.3 million to take his wife and two children, becoming the first Asian family, to tour the space on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two in 2013 if everything goes smoothly. While most of us can only dream of travel around the world. Well, with this mesmerizing time-lapse video features sequences of photographs taken with a low-light camera by the space crew that occupied the International Space Station from August to October 2011, we don't have to be a millionaire to get an astronaut view of the Earth.

Legendary street artist and OBEY Clothing owner/designer Shepard Fairey has always been one of my favourite artist. I own a few of his musician themed artworks before he became so successful that all his pieces will be snapped up online within minutes whenever he released a new piece. This is a 4-part video series documenting his most recent art exhibition, which took place in Copenhagen this past summer. Have a look and you will know what's a 'real' reality show should be.

The result for the annual award, which is the highest accolade conferred to an individual or organisation in the field of design in Singapore, was announced on 10 November.

Two individuals and 10 designs have been conferred the respective awards this year. The two Designer of the Year recipients are Chan Sau Yan Sonny of Chan Sau Yan Associates and Tang Guan Bee of Tangguanbee Architects.

The 10 Design of the Year recipients are:
26 Cable Road
ip:li architects
Yip Yuen Hong

1000 Singapores – A Model of the Compact City
Khoo Peng Beng
Belinda Huang Wan Jing Agnes
Assistant Professor Erik G. L’Heureux
Assistant Professor Florian Schaetz (and Team)

Dyson Digital Motor
Dyson, Singapore
Low Yee Cheok (and Team)

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
CPG Consultants Pte Ltd
Lee Soo Khoong (and Team)

Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Singapore
Moshe Safdie International LLC, Boston, Massachusetts
Moshe Safdie (and Team)
In collaboration with Aedas Pte Ltd
Tony Ang (and Team)

Pryde Group Bicycle Design Development
BMW Group DesignworksUSA
Magnus Aspegren (and Team)

School of the Arts
WOHA Architects Pte Ltd
Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell (and Team)

State Theatre Centre of Western Australia
Kerry Hill Architects Pte Ltd
Kerry Hill (and Team)

Streetwave Swaveboard
Streetwave Pte Ltd
Imran Othman

Underscore Magazine
Hjgher
Justin Long (and Team)

The main exhibition of the President’s Design Award 2011 will be held at ION Orchard from 12 November to 27 November 2011.  Following that, the exhibition will travel to the URA Centre and exhibit from 1 December 2011 to 10 February 2012.  A specially-curated exhibition will also be presented as part of the SPACE Asia Hub’s opening programme from 12 November to 11 December 2011.

Happen once-in-a-century. Yes, and it's today date. 11 November 2011 (11/11/11).

Don't panic! Nothing is gonna happen. Except that the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt will be closed for tourists visit. Life still goes on ...

Cheers!

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I'm Roy Ong. I shall not go into self-introduction here as I will be doing so over here.

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