I’m not a superstitious person but this observation has got me thinking about triangles again. DIASER, as you may know, is a long-term archive system, disaster recovery, in beta-2 phase. Does this bar chart say anything to you?
No, not much. See the whole picture here. From the news you will know that on Tuesday 12th January 2010 a massive earthquake hit Haiti. On 20th April 2010 the BP oil rig explosion occurred. Both locations of these disasters are near, or within, the Bermuda triangle region. The exact location of the Bermuda triangle is open to interpretation. Take a look at the Wikipedia page. Statistics are just statistics and open to misinterpretation; however the graphs above display distinct rise in user activity by March 2010 and now the BP oil disaster has occurred there is a massive drop. Furthermore there was a huge drop in activity in September 2009 shortly after a significant vulnerability in the Linux kernel was discovered on the 13th September 2009. Am I seeing what is not there? Of course, there are many more variables to take into account, so quite possibly. However, it is very possible that the world news affects how different types of software are consumed at any given time. The main point of this is the mind bending, reality law breaking, thought that my life may well have been affected, indirectly, by the Bermuda triangle without even leaving my cosy rural UK based office. The Franco-Bulgarian philosopher; Tzvetan Todorov, states how the breach of our laws of reality might be described in literature, I like it.
– Damian