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Main Menu => BETTY PEARL'S PUB FOR SISSIES => Topic started by: Betty on December 31, 2017, 07:08:09 AM
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It just turned 2018 for our many loyal visitors from New Zealand!
In less than an hour, it will be 2018 for our visitors in eastern Australia & Asia. Australia covers several time zones, so it will take a few hours for all of it to got through the new year.
6 hours to 2018 in India.
We've got more legitimate users from India, & S.E. Asia than we had since the turn of the century. Thanks to our new servers, & my custom double firewalls, we're still safer than ever though while allowing more odd ISPs in.
We've had some record-breaking hits of 18,000 hits in a single day during the past week, with an unheard of 19,000 hits one day!
We won't break 5,000,000 hits in a single year like we did in 2015. That was our busiest year ever! But we just surpassed hits for 2016, coming very close to as many hits in 2007... our previous busiest year. We've had years from 1994 to 2004 over 4.5 milion hits, but I don't have exact figures, records, or memory on them. I can say in all confidence though, that we never had 5 million hits in a single year before 2015. I would have remembered 5 million. Indeed, in the past if we got close to 4 million a year, it was to much for me or the servers to handle, or more than I could pay to handle that kind of traffic, so would have to cut back traffic.
Welcome India, & Taiwan! It's great to have you back with us, & have a Happy New Year!
Of course, in many parts of Asia, they don't celebrate the new year for a month yet... in China it's almost a month long holiday as big as Christmas. If you're ordering anything from China or nearby countries near the end of January, expect almost a month delay before they ship anything, because so many are away on vacation, holiday, or celebrating. There's a huge work slow-down, scale-back, or many places close for almost a month in the region for those holidays.
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It's now 2018 in Asia, & India too.
Happy New Year!
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The New year in the east (a few hours ago now)
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New Year's 2018 celebrations in the east.
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Wonderful pictures Betty and I wish you and all our friends a very Happy and prosperous New Year.
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Thanks.
Here are some of the clips I put together of the celebrations there. With 2F with -15F wind chills expected in my area, it might be better to watch the fireworks inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8OueMuPLCw
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Happy New Year eastern Americas, & Canada! The Balls have dropped.
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to betty and members ,have a happy new year
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Thank you.
I made another compilation video of New year's celebrations from around the world. These are only DVD quality, so they probably won't look good sitting just a couple feet from a 26" to 60" screen. I find they look fine sitting back 5 or 6 feet from a 32" screen or on small laptop, tablet, & phone screens... a 14.5" laptop screen just 15" from my eyes, looks bigger than the 32" TV sitting 6 feet away.
In recent tests they found people couldn't tell the difference between good quality 720p & 1080p material when viewed on a 48" TV 6' away. They also discovered that people couldn't tell the difference between good 480-525p DVD material & HD 720p material sitting 10' away from a 48" TV.
The quality of the material being played, the hardware or software playing it, the scalers (they have to be scaled to fit your screen), & the TV/monitor panel you're viewing it on are much more important than the highest resolution possible. The stuff with the biggest numbers & price tags at the highest resolution does not always mean the best picture.
You can get the best, newest HD camera out there, but if you put on the wrong lens, crappy lens, dirty lens, or defective lens, or don't know how to use the camera, you might get a better picture with an old 1980s decent quality VHS camcorder.
Anywho, most of my online streaming video is highly compressed or only SVCD to DVD resolution. They'll look fine sitting back a few feet from most big screens, or watching on smaller monitors & portable devices. More than half our users & readers are on portable devices with screens only 3.5" to 14.5".
It's probably not very good for your eyes to be sitting just a couple feet from a 26" or more screen anyway.
Enjoy the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSas6mYn7zQ
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Here's some more pictures of the New year's celebrations from around the world.
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The reason I'm delivering these in higher resolutions & file sizes, or are much wider than our regular sissy stuff, is that I can afford more bandwidth if it's only stuff that will get a few dozen clicks rather than a few hundred or thousand over a year. Also because it's not sissy related stuff, they can be deleted when they get old. These are also highly compressed, so I'm getting more resolution, or wider pictures at less file size & bandwidth. I find people & dresses look bad at this compression rate, but buildings & fireworks still look OK at the higher compression.
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It sure looks warm down there while we're currently experiencing arctic, windy -8F (-22C) wind chills here. But 90-100F summers there would be pretty unbearable for me.
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I was reading the news where they mentioned people in London "braved" the rain to watch the fireworks & celebrate. Braved??? Who thinks up these words? It rains all the time in London... not quite as much as in Seattle, but they do get a lot of rain. So rain is not a big deal.
It's like if people in Virginia, Washington DC, or Florida get a couple of inches of snow, they close everything down & cars are crashing into each other. Up here we don't close anything until we get around a yard (close to a meter) of snow... and we don't crash into each other.
But even in the Nevada or Arizona desert, if it rains, people aren't brave to go out in it, they just get a little wet.
What was brave was the locals here going to see the fireworks & celebrate outside at a windy 0F to -2F with -15F (-26C) wind chills outside. Across the state in NYC & Time Square, it was only 10 degrees warmer too. That was brave... or maybe F'n crazy!
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Thanks Betty, I love all the pics of the celebrations in other lands and some of them I watched on New Years Eve. I have been under the weather quite a bit the last few month's now and undergoing several tests and bloodwork to help figure it out. I will be 70 next year and it seems as I race to face father time my body is reluctant to try and keep up. We know we will age and we look forward to milestone birthdays and retirement but until we reach them the reality of getting old sets in with our limited abilities. Still we are still on this side of the grass (well snow right now) and able to enjoy our visit's here with like minded friends. After experiencing some deaths of friends and family the past few months I wish a HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all and a healthy, prosperous 2018.