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How do you write yours?

Every day I write hundreds if not thousands of words. Some in e-mails, some on social networks, most in articles and many in blog posts.

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They like me, they really like me

It’s not often I get an e-mail that gives me a real buzz, it’s also not often people tell me they really like what I do – unless they’re spamming me and trying to get me to link to them – but they don’t count.

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Would you subscribe?

The headline should really read ‘Would you subscribe by e-mail?’ but I prefer to keep headlines relatively short for various asthetic reasons.

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Shameless self promotion

My site was nominated for Best Geek Blog! I never said I was a proud man, in fact I’d almost go as far as to say the opposite. I’ve written more than once about how I spend hours looking at what other people say about me or my blog.

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Notable comment

From the Times story on the baptism of a mulsim in Rome.


So an intellectual weakling has changed his favourite brand of superstition for a different one & an old man in a silly hat has poured water over him. Yawn.
Roger Angove, Truro,


I’ll let you in to a little secret – I prefer to read comments and the responses to comments on news articles than the articles themselves most of the time.

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Lunchtime ‘Window Shop’ Challenge

A while ago I wrote a post called ‘ten things to do on a rainy lunchbreak‘ and one of the ideas I suggested was the Lunchtime Challenge.

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Under the fold

I’ve got a few advert links on my blog – there’s good old fashioned Google adsense, there’s ShoppingAds from Text-Link-Ads and there are Google referers.

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What you want from me

I’ve recently installed the Wordpress.com Blog Stats plugin and it’s very good – it gives me pretty detailed stats from within my Wordpress Dashboard and much more reliable stats for the blog than I get from the stats system my host provides.

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Constant Capture Culture

I carry a camera with me everywhere I go – either in the form of a Nikon D40 thats kept in my bag or, if I haven’t got my bag, the camera attached to my mobile phone.

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