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2011 in review

31 December, 2011 by Stonehead 1 Comment

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 260,000 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it would take about 3 sold-out events for that many people to see it. Click here [...]

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Annual report, Blogging, postaweek2011, WordPress

Postie brings a surprise

22 December, 2011 by Stonehead 2 Comments

I met the postie as I was coming back from photographing the Stonehead Circle this morning. He handed over a couple of parcels for the Other Half, plus half a dozen letters. I plonked them all down on the lid of the chest freezer and forgot about them until I was making my lunch. Among [...]

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Blogging, Christmas

Tag! You’re it!

19 October, 2011 by Stonehead 1 Comment

WordPress provides a recommended list of tags that might be of use when contextualising a blog post. It’s a useful feature. I usually adopt most of the suggestions before adding a few of my own tags to cover omissions or provide better contextulisation. Sometimes, though, the WordPress suggestions provoke hilarity because of their logical incongruence.

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Blogging, David Cameron, Humour, Liam Fox, Ministerial Code, postaweek2011, tags, WordPress

Spam, spam, spam

15 June, 2011 by Stonehead 6 Comments

In five days the blog filter has stopped 1,006 spam comments. In five days my email filter has stopped 643 spam emails. I can’t be bothered looking through them for genuine ones. If you haven’t heard from me, that’s probably why. Otherwise, I’m just being a lazy git and shifting the blame to spammers.

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Blogging, Email, postaweek2011, spam

Hopefully brief hiatus

20 March, 2011 by Stonehead 8 Comments

I’ve had a virus for a couple of days and it’s tough enough doing the day jobs without blogging in the evenings as well. Especially when I have stonking great headaches. Hopefully, things will improve soon. On the positive side, we had four customers collect their boxed Berkshire pork today. And all of them were [...]

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