I’m only publishing this to get something set up on the blog that requires ownership authorisation via publication of a randomly generated statement. Think of this as an unexpected fortune cookie, if you like: “This chopped board joins with the poke under the concluded fountain.” And there you have it. Moving on: would you like to see the naked ladies or read about food or toddlers instead?
Mar 012012
Well, that was painless. I got an email when Hew started moving stuff over, another when he was done, and Lo! it’s all here. My theme is still here, in its free-for-WP.org version, my sidebar and footer widgets are still basically the same, and they’ve added some plugins to replicate some of the features of WordPress.com that I was used to. Visitors probably don’t notice the minor differences on the site from yesterday to today. Slick! I’m sure I could have done it myself, but by the time I’d looked up how to do everything found and installed the right [...]
Feb 282012
So it’s all been arranged – a “Happiness Engineer” called Hew at the WordPress.com guided transfer service is going to take all of this stuff and move it over to a WordPress.org installation hosted by HostGator. That’ll happen between 02:00 UTC Wednesday and 02:00 UTC Thursday this week. [That's the wee small hours in the UK, evening in the US, and lunchtime in Australia.] When I wake up in the morning, I’ll have to wait up to a day before I can see the new site. So it may look weird at first, but I’ll get things all how I like them [...]
I just bought a “Guided Transfer” service from WordPress.com to move all the stuff on this site to, essentially, another site that looks roughly the same and has the same web address but is delivered to your screen from a web host that I pay, rather than from WordPress.com. If that meant nothing to you and your eyes have glazed over, feel free to wander off. There are some naked girlie photos here, or a few recipes. Anyway, what it means is that if you come back in a couple of weeks’ time, this blog may look slightly different. No [...]
Jan 262012
January 26, 2012
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One of my pet hates is redundant language; I reserve the right to “really truly” for emphasis if I want to, but all that “05-hundred AM in the morning” stuff is for cock jockeys. Here’s a little visual celebration of redundancy in action:
Like I said the other day, I had this organic search traffic spike. Lots of people looking for Mike Crawley showed up, the majority of them from Google image search. About 20 hours later, I saw the news that Mike Crawley has been named as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada…. What this essentially means is that a whole lot of people were doing a quick spot of internet research on Mike Crawley, maybe looking for a picture of him to include with their blog post or news story, when they crashed into a couple of my [...]
Jan 162012
I just had one of those mad traffic spikes: not a StumbleUpon flashmob, not a run of Facebook click-throughs, but a burst of activity that comes mainly from organic search. Look: As it turns out, I had a lot of hits from people searching for Mike Crawley. Which isn’t surprising, because he’s a superstar and because he does nudie photos. There were a couple of hours there when it was all just busy, busy, busy – for this place, at least. I’m used to pootling along at no more than a hundred or so views a day most of the time, so this [...]
Aug 102011
I wouldn’t say “oh, I’ll only ever use free sex toys because they’re just for fun,” or decide that my walking shoes have to be free because I’ll only use them to explore. So why was I focused on getting my test on for free?
This is how I see myself and my business in a few years’ time. Especially the chart. Seriously though, how are you going to get from here to there? My plan involves working bloody hard (but,like I said,not too hard) and training the Animal to make money from blogging too. That way I can just put in a regular few hours a week working for other people, a few more working on my own side projects, and spend the rest playing ball and reading books with Mini-MI while the Animal plays househusband. In the park. With ice cream. Cos that’s how good it will [...]
This is a guest post by Caitlin Kelly of Broadside blog. If you told me to jump out of an airplane or try rock-climbing or bungee-jumping or riding a motorbike, I’d say no thanks. I hate heights. Most physical risks leave me cold. But when I was 25, I left behind my apartment, dog, freelance writing clients and live-in boyfriend eager to marry me – and moved alone to France for eight months for a journalism fellowship. I was desperate for a break and a change, but I knew getting on that plane would – as it did – forever [...]
