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Looking back through some of my old blog posts recently, I realised something -- I started my blog in May 2004. By my calculations, that makes over 10 years of blogging! I find it hard to believe. It happened almost by accident.


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Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm a bit of a Statistics Geek. Ten months ago, when I decided to re-name and re-vitalise my blog, I was determined to write 3 posts a week. The other day I was wondering how that was going, so I decided to do a bit of analysis ( Read more... )

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I was going to treat you-all to another installment of ApartmentCat in Europe: The Blog, but I can't tonight. I don't have the text I wrote because I emailed it to myself and Hotmail thinks the attachment is suspicious and it won't let me unblock it.

I emailed it to Myself!
Grrghghhg!

In the meantime, here's a random picture from We Heart It. I' ( Read more... )

I read an interesting article at this site recently about improving your blog. Optimisation, content provision, stopping readers from getting bored - it all sounds so boring! I just do what I do. This particular exercise sounds a bit more fun though - it involves noting the content of your last 15 posts and analysing them. I thought I'd give it a ( Read more... )

I've decided to change the name of my blog. I've had my blog since 26th May 2004, which is quite an extraordinarily long time on the Intertubes! I've changed a lot in the last 6 years, and I've been unhappy with the old name for a while now. "The Barely Competent Knitter" just doesn't suit me anymore. Negative Nancy ruled the roost back then. It ( Read more... )

Last night I made a few changes to my blog sidebar ( Read more... )

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I'm going to try and keep this short today as I want to get back to crafting! After the doctors' appointment, and doing some dishes and laundry, etc etc. I'm home sick from work today (or should that be 'sick'...?) but I haven't had much of a chance to do anything crafty. Here are the photos I promised last time though:


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