GeologyRocks

I'm in a bit of a creative mood (it happens every now and again - I get periods where I get lots of ideas, then nothing for a while) and have thought of a list of tutorials I would like to see on this site in the near future. My aim is that I could write them, but I'm sure folk who've been around here a while know that whilst I aim to do a lot of good things, I don't seem to always get around to them...So, I thought I'd list them here, so other people could have a go first, if I don't get there!

The graph shows visitor numbers on the site over the last month. Note that it's lower than the 10,000/month peak we had earlier this year (it's at ~7,500/month), but look at the increase in the last few weeks. Do you think the Universities are back ?

I've been pondering something lately. It's been evoked from a number of things; Dawkins' recent C4 programme, a discussion on SciForums and a meandering around the web for climate change denialist sites.

This article on the Guardian (about Dawkin's new programme) has made my day:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/aug/02/television.television

Those wacky creationsits are at it again. This time it's a film Expelled: no intellignece allowed. This film is a documentary that looks at the "Intelligent Design". Cue lot's of shots designed to make scientists (i.e. those that don't agree with ID) look bad, silly, stupid, evil, etc, etc and those who believe in ID reasonable, intelligent, open, etc, etc.

Well thanks a lot to all of you - you've cost me money . I've had to upgrade the hosting package for GeologyRocks because we were running out of disk space (250Mb fills up quickly!). This is, of course, a good thing and I hope in the near future I'll have to upgrade again!

This is more a note to myself to remind me to do some things (but here is a good place to keep it so I don't lose it!).

Bugs to fix:

Just checked the visitor log I keep and wanted to share this moment:

In the last month (14/1 - 14/2) we've had *drum roll* >10,000 unique visits on GeologyRocks If this keeps on we should easily hit >125,000 this year!

I've attached a PDF of the report summary.

Katie and I are just back from honeymoon in Antigua, and sticking with geological stuff, we saw some amazing things such as Montserrat (from a helicoptor), reefs, and of course, some Antiguan geology. I'll be uploading photos over the next few weeks (we managed to take >2500!!!!).

...Katie and I got married last Friday. Thought a few folk here might like to know