Ever heard of copyright, mister?
Posted: May 14, 2009 Filed under: My blog 5 Comments »These people have stolen my words and put them on their website.
http://caribbean.dailynewsabout.com/archives/134
Is this some sort of automatically generated blog? Anyone know?
Boring search terms
Posted: February 17, 2009 Filed under: My blog 1 Comment »Since I started this blog in September 2008, I’ve only had 13 people arriving here via a search engine. I can’t believe it’s so few, as I still get around 10 hits from search engines PER DAY on my old blog (which I haven’t written since June last year, incidentally!)
In case anyone is interested, here are the search terms that have lead unsuspecting punters to my door …
Nothing salacious or exciting, I’m afraid.
Failure
Posted: January 24, 2009 Filed under: My blog 4 Comments »By the way, I realise that I’ve failed miserably at my attempt to blog everyday for a month. Just been so busy in the last few weeks – no time to write. Oh well! Maybe it will be easier to Twitter …
Bleurghgh
Posted: January 5, 2009 Filed under: Blether, My blog 4 Comments »I’ve got six minutes to write a post so that I don’t fail my month long challenge to write a post a day for a month. But I have nothing to write and I’m also really tired so I’m off to bed.
Technically, I have now written a post and therefore not failed my challenge, even though I have written absolutely nothing of any interest to anyone.
I think I may give up on this silly challenge, as I don’t have time at the moment, and I’m finding it difficult to know what to write. I really should be spending my time sorting my life/ finding a new job instead of blogging, anyway. So the challenge is off. Probably. Unless I can think of anything quick, interesting and worthwhile to write tomorrow.
Blog challenge, day 2
Posted: January 2, 2009 Filed under: Blether, Christmas, My blog 2 Comments »Here I am, day 2 of my challenge to write everyday for a month. The wonderful Brennig Jones has kindly offered to provide me with exercises to help improve my writing style. I’ve no idea what that involves, but it may be that’s what I end up publishing here (if they are suitable or if I can’t think of anything else to write!)
I am back at work today … and actually writing this from my cosy little SLT room. When I woke up at 7.30 this morning (and pressed the snooze button for another half hour’s kip), I regretted my decision to come into work. I mean, 2nd Jan is technically still Christmas, isn’t it?
I’m limiting myself to ten minutes to write this post as I have lots of reports to do today, and some appointment letters to send out. Plus a couple of irate mothers to call back (can’t wait!).
I’m meeting up with E. again tomorrow plus the other member of our little trio (A.) for exchange of Christmas gifts. Only problem is that I haven’t actually bought the bloody things yet (or thought about what I am going to get). A. also has two young children so I need to get them pressies, too. I’m not looking forward to hitting the shops this evening, I must say, although at least the sales are in full swing, which means I may be able to grab a bargain or two.
Anyway, dear readers, I will love you and leave you now. Think of me here slogging away for the rest of the day as you lounge in front of the TV stuffing your faces with the last of the chocolate covered Brazil nuts and mince pies. I’ll be back (with more drivel, no doubt) tomorrow!
Resolution no. 1
Posted: January 1, 2009 Filed under: My blog, Writing 5 Comments »Well, here’s my first New Year’s resolution – write a blog post a day for a month! Not sure if I’ll be able to stick to it when I get back to work, but I’m going to try!
My aim is to improve my writing skills (?!). I am not sure if this is something that can be learnt (e.g. from a book) or whether I just need to practise to improve. Things I find difficult/ problem areas:
1. not being able to say what I want in a succinct way and ending up writing loads of waffle (which I then can’t be bothered to edit);
2. reverting to lists as a way of getting round the above (this post being a case in point!);
3. spending way too long editing and revising a post, so that blog writing becomes a chore and not something enjoyable;
4. not always having anything to write about 
5. not sounding like myself in my blog posts. (In particular, I feel my posts lack in humour sometimes and can sound clinical … like I’m writing a SLT report!)
Anyway, the challenge starts now, so we’ll see how it goes. Any writing tips would be appreciated!
Feeds – a question
Posted: November 19, 2008 Filed under: My blog 4 Comments »Bear with me. I am new to feeds and RSS.
I have subscribed to reader to help manage the growing number of blogs that I read. I added my own blog to the list, and worryingly, it turns out that two posts that I published then deleted have appeared on the feed. (Actually I decided to change the original post to anonymise it, and then republished it).
So, my question is … does everything published on a blog automatically show up in feeds even if it is deleted at a later date?
Yikes, if that is the case.
Hello! I’m back
Posted: September 14, 2008 Filed under: My blog 11 Comments »I have a new blog – finally! It’s taken me ages to settle on a name/ web address etc. Many of the addresses I wanted were taken BY PEOPLE WHO WROTE ONLY ONE OR TWO POSTS AND THEN GAVE UP. Grr.
I may import some of my better (in my opinion) posts from my previous blog, cos it seems a shame that it’s all just sitting there slowly decaying in cyber space. On the other hand I may not – new beginnings and all that. And I’m probably going to tell people about this blog – unlike the other one where only a selected few friends were party to my secret. On verra.
Normal blogging service, i.e. drivel, rants, ramblings, talking shite, has resumed. Hooray!
