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It's not the steering that's the problem.
It's slowing down... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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If the A Team can steer a falling tank by firing it... 
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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That's the A-Team.
They are professionals.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I would have thought you unloaded the ammunition if it was going in a cargo plane...
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Slowing down is merely a matter of hitting something far more massive than yourself.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Which leave the minor problems of
0) Not bouncing right back off again
1) Surviving the impact
Neither of which movie makers ever seem to consider!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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exactement - which is where the realism loses out to the story telling.
Still a damnably fine movie though.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Yes, well that is equally implausible.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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As some of you have probably noticed, in my sig below, 2 of the links are Bit.ly shortened (Web/Twitter) and by appending a '+' to the link you can get the statistics of the link clicks.
This morning I thought I would check out both of the links to see how often they get clicked and where was clicking them. I wasn't surprised to see the USA as #1, but was very surprised to see Iran as #2.
I had a look at my Google Analytics for the same period since the Link was created (i.e. 24th Jan 2011), which would obviously cover all visits to the site and not just via the link and Iran is #71.
Any clues as to why Iran would have such a high interest? Does CodeProject have a high visitor rate from Iran, the stats suggest it does? @Chris-Maunder
Web Link (897 Clicks since 24th Jan 2011)
United States: 23%, 203
Iran, Islamic Republic of: 13%, 114
India: 8%, 68
China: 7%, 61
United Kingdom: 6%, 54
Chile: 3%, 25
Japan: 3%, 23
Germany: 2%, 19
Brazil: 2%, 14
Canada: 1%, 13
(+56 More countries)
Twitter Link (629 Clicks since 24th Jan 2011)
United States: 22%, 137
Iran, Islamic Republic of: 18%, 111
India: 7%, 47
China: 6%, 40
Chile: 5%, 29
Japan: 4%, 23
United Kingdom: 3%, 19
Canada: 2%, 13
Russian Federation: 2%, 11
France: 2%, 10
(+38 More countries)
You can see the full stats for both of these by clicking these two stat links;
http://bit.ly/DMAweb+[^]
http://bit.ly/DMAtwt+[^]
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I wouldn't read anything into it. I often get weird stats for my sites; it usually turns out that it's because the site's been mentioned on some bulletin board or in the introductory/supplementary material for a university course.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There is nothing wrong with it, it is just unsual for Iran to appear so high up the demographic statistics versus other countries.
As I said also in the post, my website as a whole, Iran is #71 on the visitor rankings.
I would have thought that maybe the UK or or some other european countries might have been higher up.
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Would it be possible that bit.ly links are easier to pass around in Iran compared to normal links (bypass censors)?
I'd rather be phishing!
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@Maximilien: URL shorteners are always easier to pass and it has nothing to do with the censoring..
@DaveAuld: Not sure what may cause that, but I think Mark_Wallace might be right...
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Face it Dave - you're kind of a big thing in Iran.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I will make it clear now that I have nothing to do with their nuclear program...
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Of course you don't.
And of course that's exactly what we'd all expect you to say.
We're watching you, Mr Auld.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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We are done for now, with the words "Iran" and "Nuclear" and "Program" being mentioned, the site will be ranked high on the NSA watch list. Expect all traffic latency to increase slightly as it passes through the extra man-in-the-middle filtering proxies...
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I know this is a coincidence, but we just received a fairly massive spike in traffic that caused 2 webservers to backup for a couple of minutes.
I'm sure it was coincidence. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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But I'm don't get that excited by Kestrels...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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It makes for an interesting hobby.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Feeling better now?
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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A lot better than the man whose funeral I was at yesterday.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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