The other day I got an email sent from my contact form on my website. It was from a comedian known as Jack Handey who has been featured on Saturday Night Live dozens of times, and who has written several books. Now it wasn't a good email but interesting nonetheless:
You have to take my Deep Thoughts off your site right away.
It's copyrighted material. You giving away my property for free hurts my book sales. Is that concept difficult for you to understand?
If you'd like, I'll have my attorney contact you. But then that'll cost me money, and he'll have to get that money from you.
Again, please remove the Deep Thoughts immediately.
Sincerely,
Jack Handey
While I hoped I would hear from Jack Handey in another fashion it's still cool that some famous person visited my website. I of course removed all of the quotes I had of his, on my website. Being the Google Analytics freak that I am I wondered, what sort of computer setup does Mr. Handey have. Using GA's sweet new segmentation feature I can find this out pretty easily.
Mr. Handey did a Google search for the phrase "message president jack handey outside" which really doesn't make any sense as is, but he ended up on my site where he proceeded to view 9 of my pages. That's sort of the fun thing about web analytics is I can make assumptions, and find out what people are doing on websites that I have analytics on (at work or at home). People generally assume that what they do online is private but it really isn't and crazy people like me can figure those things out assuming we have the data to do so. I always laugh when some idiot gets caught using a proxy to do something illegal online (like hacking Sarah Palin's Yahoo! account).
Anyway's here's Mr. Handey's computer setup:
- ISP: Comcast
- City & State: Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Browser: Safari 523.12
- Operating System: Macintosh
- Screen Resolution: 1680 x 1050
- Flash Version: 9.0 r19
- Java Installed: Yes
- Screen Colors: 24 bit
- Visited My Website: 2 PM, November 9th for about 8 minutes and 48 seconds
I'd like to apologize to Mr. Handey who I admire and find very funny. I essentially just copied a bunch of his quotes from some other website that probably did the same thing. It seems that too often people search Google for one of his quotes and ended up on my website (which they can't do via his books because books are not searchable). Either way I didn't profit from this other than answering some random person's question.
And now deep thoughts...by Jack Handey...
