Comments on: What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:21:22 +0000

Interesting questions…

Dave logs in and starts writing some sql code…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:15:07 +0000

gee, that narrows it down
Completely understand the privacy thing.

Here’s one for you: Has there ever been a user that’s posted every hour during the same 24 hour period? (an all nighter if you would).

I’m guessing not, so the followup would be what’s the record for consecutive hourly posts?

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:56:36 +0000

Hi, Chris… I hope you will understand but I don’t plan to name names. I have an extremely high regard for privacy issues, and as a result the only time I will ever use my private access to the BOB database to post public information is when I can do so without exposing individual information. For example I posted a few statistics about the top level domains used to register on BOB a few years ago.

I will give you a clue… they are users with at least 24 posts.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:27:31 +0000

names, we want names … who are the other gluttons for punishment?

By: Anita Craig

Anita Craig — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:13:48 +0000

Dave, you know that we all appreciate your hard work. BOB is your baby, and you’re a great Dad (in many ways, it seems)!

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:08:58 +0000

Josh, of course it was Excel. I don’t have any Business Objects products set up to query the BOB database online. I capture the numbers and download them to Excel and work from there. Sorry to disappoint you…

By: Josh Fletcher

Josh Fletcher — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:02:24 +0000

I hoped you used a BO product to build that graph, tho it doesn’t look like it!

Good job on BOB v3, it looks pretty good.

And yes, some people are just like that, you have a problem to solve and time is irrelevant – I can definitely relate!

- Josh