About Me

Last edited March 3, 2026

Hi. I’m Bob Page, data/analytics graybeard, networking guy, security d00d, dad, and probably a lot of other stuff, too. Originally from the Boston area, I moved to the SF Bay Area to be a SWE for Sun Microsystems (RIP). I am married and live in coastal California.

For my professional bio, see LinkedIn.

About This Site

Initially, bobpage.net was a vehicle for topics related to Yahoo! and web analytics. It went into hibernation in the fall of 2005 when my life became too crazy. After several tries at restarts, it went mostly dormant. In 2026 I decided to dust it off.

The blog is powered by the WordPress software, using a local variant of the Minnow theme. The site is hosted at Digital Ocean on one of their droplets. There are cheaper VPS offerings but I’m pretty happy with DO.

All original content on this site is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Please give me credit/blame if you use anything here. Note that I do not claim copyright over any of the comments posted by others; contact the poster directly.

Due to the age of some of the posts and a hosting provider meltdown in 2014 without adequate backups, some links and/or images are broken. I’ll fix or remove them as I come across them.

About Site Statistics

I have a web server log file running, but I only use it for debugging, not for analysis. I have Cloudflare Insights installed, but haven’t spent any time with it.

My Privacy Policy

The web server at bobpage.net may serve you cookies, but feel free to delete them from your browser. The cookies are only useful if you post comments and don’t want to type your contact info each time.

I may use analytics to see which posts are popular, or which search keywords or incoming links drove traffic to the site, but it’ll be in aggregate form. I do not use the data to profile you or market to you, and I don’t ship the raw usage data anywhere.

If you post a comment, I get an email with the info you entered in the form, as well as your IP address, because I manually approve new replies from people the blog hasn’t seen before. I don’t keep the email after I approve/reject the blog comment.

Regarding data retention – the raw log files on the server go back four (4) months. I ignore them unless I am debugging.

Other Representations

This is my personal site – note the domain name. I do not speak for any employers, other people, or organizations, just myself. Any original content here is my opinion, and not necessarily anyone else’s.

Contacting Me

I welcome your questions, comments, and feedback. You can comment on a posting for 14 days (subject to moderation for spam control), or post to your own blog / social media account and link to this one. If you prefer email, send to my last name at neato.org.

Thanks for reading.