Suffering from a strange sense of curiosity, I check out how people find this humble little web site. Most frequently, people type it or click on a bookmark. However, some people do a web search on google or yahoo and find their way here. The following is a list of search terms people used to find my site.

1. 20.53% palm repair
2. 11.26% porsche carrera 4
3. 8.61% lake vermillion
4. 7.28% palm pilot repair
5. 3.97% linux t-shirt
6. 3.31% carrera 4
7. 1.99% evil penguin
8. 1.99% timbu
9. 1.32% 2003 email addresses of institute of atomic energy in america
10. 1.32% cnn in iraq
11. 1.32% lake superior sailing
12. 1.32% perl stripping blank lines text file
13. 0.66% 2000 911 carrera
14. 0.66% 2000 porsche carrera
15. 0.66% 80′s mobs facts
16. 0.66% amnicon falls
17. 0.66% baby after birth
18. 0.66% big ford
19. 0.66% big ford truck
20. 0.66% big sword fish pictures

Some I understand, for instance the Porsche related searches are going to find my brother-in-laws interesting comparision of an MR2 and a Porsche. Other’s like “80′s mobs facts”, I have no idea.

I just hope I don’t disenchant eager netizens too much.

If you look back through the archives there are numerous entries concerning the war in Irag, GWII, I guess it’s being called.

I haven’t written much about it lately. It seems like the worst of it is over for now. That’s easy for me to say since I am not there.

Although, I didn’t really believe that WMD were the key reason we were going to war, I am surprised none have been found. I know it’s a big country, but if they were there, wouldn’t someone want to step forward and point them out. I believe there would be significant financial incentive to do just that. Even if they were spirited out of the country you would think there would still be supply chain kind of evidence.

Now if WMD are never found, someone has to answer. I wonder if this will turn up as an election year question for 2004?

At this point it looks more the the Defense folks took the word of Iraqi dissidents too seriously. The question is did the U.S. ignore credible evidence to the contrary? Did we cook the books because some nation had to pay and Iraq was the simplest choice. I hope not.

I wonder if the phenomena of blogging will quiet down as a result of warbloggers having less to blog about?

The $64K question is where is Saddam? Will we hear from him again, or is he gone like Dr. Evil?

I spent last weekend up at the Lake. The extended entry has photos.

I have really grown to love Lake Vermillion. It has an amazing sense of place and connection for me. Oddly enough it’s my wife’s family connection and not mine, yet I have spent so many happy days there I fell the same sort of bond.

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thought I would list a few links to trail info, just as an archive from my bookmarks.

• Pacific Crest Trail Association
• Superior Hiking Trail Association
• Kekekabic Trail Club
• Minnesota Rovers Outing Club
• North Country Trail Association
• Brian Robinson’s Triple Crown Logs
• Tahoe Rim Trail(suggested by jennie (Tahoe Rim Trail site gets useless use of Flash award, but nice looking trail))

I don’t frequent libraries much. I spent a fair amount of time there in college, but now I just don’t seem to make the time. I also don’t like their practice of fining people who bring back their books. I mean, I brought the book back are you sure someone else wanted it?

Tonight, as my in-laws have arrived in Minnesota for a visit, I went to the library to get visiting privileges for Ramsey County. Jim, Barb’s husband, likes to watch old movies and borrows 10 at a time while he is at my house. While I was at the library I was amazed. It was jam packed with really interesting books. Book I have meant to buy but have been too cheap. I borrowed four. As luck would have it you can even renew over the web now. If I can get these boooks back in time, this may become a habit.

I got the following books.

• “Hero of Everest, Tenzing”, Ed Douglas
• “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt”, Edmund Morris
• “Forever Peace”, Joe Haldeman
• “The Emporor of Ocean Park”, Stephen Carter

I’ll let you know what I think.