Office cleanout: finding these stickers brought back good memories. I truly loved Urchin — it was the best analytics system I’d ever seen, crunched your http logs and gave you great web stats.

It became Google Analytics.

Ever wonder why URLs today sometimes have the letters ?utm in them… it stands for Urchin Tracking Module!

@cabel The whole story of my resume can basically be summarized as “I did X before it became Y.” I was in charge of the Urchin implementation at the data center where I worked and we basically browbeat them into writing license management code so we didn’t have to track how many licenses we needed to pay for at any one time. I also wrote a lot of automation tools around re-fetching missing logs and rerunning the processing app after that happened.