As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I have been working on a project to migrate my Breaksian travel blog to the Node platform where I'm running my applications. I already finished the main blog, but a couple more pieces are still pending. Today I finished one of them: a small map showing the itinerary I followed while I was travelling in Asia and Oceania. I also took the opportunity to update it with the missing data points.

I hadn't checked the global search engine market share in a while because Google clearly dominates in almost every country, but yesterday I heard an interesting podcast on the BBC about the power of Google, and I was curious about the position of the 2nd and 3rd players. The chart above is generated with data from StatCounter.

My old LAMP hosting is about to expire, and I’m using that account only to host a travel blog of my career break two years ago, called Breaksian. This weekend I migrated the contents to a Node platform, and I took the opportunity to review and publish a post about a week I spent in Ko Lanta, Thailand. Quite a special place.

Alexa and SimilarWeb rank Wikipedia as the 7th and 9th most visited site on the web, so the visit statistics produced by the foundation are a good proxy for getting data on the most popular platforms on the web. The chart above shows the visits by OS family. As you can see, Windows 7 is the most popular desktop OS, but mobile operating systems (Android and iOS) are responsible for almost 40% of the visits to those sites.

According to an article published in The Guardian, the Earth is warming at a pace unprecedented in 1,000 years. I have already discussed this point three times on this blog, but I think it's worth bringing it up again, because some people are still not convinced this is a real phenomenon.

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