Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Statcounter, that popular web statistics and usage tracking site, threw me some of their SQL code last night:

# 66.98.208.5#Resource id #17 account:
select pk_user_id, username, firstname, lastname, companyname, country, email, code, name, date_type, clock_type, timezone, show_results from user,user_type where fk_user_type_id=pk_user_type_id and fk_account_id='305813' AND user_type.code <> 'admin' AND user_type.code <> 'site_admin' AND user_type.code <> 'site_support'

#66.98.208.5#Resource id #17 account:
SELECT timezone FROM timezone WHERE country='United States'

Of course, the code is relatively boring, and we can’t learn much about their internals from it.

The one thing I love about Battlestar Galactica is that it’s so heroic!

Unlike other TV shows, its characters actually care about each other enough to do crazy things, like jump their battleships inside a planet’s atmosphere to deploy air cover. Which results in massively impressive visuals of the Battlestar Galactica herself falling and burning up in atmosphere–where a spaceship probably should never go–in order to rescue her people. Wow.

Apparently nerds around the country found it good enough to digg this movie clip of it on YouTube:

If I captained those ships, I’d have done it a Season and a half ago out of sheer craziness.

I don’t know why you called me today, but next time leave a message, ok?

I’m actually not actually sure why anyone from HSBC would call me, since I don’t think that I know anyone there, am clearly employed for a rival, and have never written about them on my blog. Perhaps they meant to call another student at Cornell University and got my number by accident?