Just a few weeks ago, I dedicated some time to updating and upgrading my bolivian soccer news site which I'd neglected since March. Well, back in March i decided to start scraping the news section from some fo the online, Bolivian newspapers and linking to the stories on the right. After my redesign, I checked the site's traffic and was quite surprised by what I found. I was expecting to see a huge dropoff in traffic since I hadn't updated the site but I found that there hand't been a noticeable change in traffic since then. I think the automated headlines grab served as life support for the site since visitors could expect those to be updated daily.

Interesting summary of what to look for in a linux NIC beyond the price is here. I wish I'd looked at that earlier. I'm currently installing Mandrake 9.1 on my sister's PC. Because her CD drive wouldn't read the Mandrake iso's I'd burned, I ended up having to do a net install from my PC to hers. So far, its taken 10 hours to do the install.