Category: Blogging
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New blogs
Reader Ferdia has started a new blog over here. Uncle Anthony has started a personal blog over there. Welcome!
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New toys
On Kathryn‘s advice I’ve been playing with some new tools. I added Apture via a plugin, and I must say I do like it. It makes it easy to add extra media to text-driven blog posts. I’ll keep it on for a while and see how it goes. Next to test is Thomson-Reuters’ OpenCalais. It…
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Hi Stumbleupon..
I seem to be getting deluged with people visiting from StumbleUpon… I’m not sure why though? Welcome to the blog and feel free to browse around. 🙂
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Travel plans
I’ve been working hard to prepare for a significant amount of traveling in the coming months. I have pretty much finalised my timelines, with all flights booked and accommodation sorted. Blogging, in a variety of forms, will be as regular as circumstances allow. I should warn everyone that I will be playing with and testing…
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Bloggin and links
Big thanks to Niall Paterson in Sky News for the link, praise indeed from a much appreciated longtime reader. Eamonn has also been kind enough to offer advice and link up. I have also been in touch with Michael Totten, who I have exchanged emails and tips with, but unfortunately we won’t be in Georgia…
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Did Mr McWilliams drop by?
This has led to a class division in the financial affairs of the nation. There are now two monetary classes in Ireland: the ‘investor class’ and the ‘lotto class’ (see Barbara Defoe Whitehead, ‘A Nation in Debt’; www.theamericaninterest.com). A Nation in Debt, July 1. Or maybe we just read the same stuff.
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Blogiversary
Well it’s that time of year again. I started blogging on July 19, 2002, making this blog six years old today. Coincidentally my visitor numbers will pass 1,400,000 today too. A rather cool coincidence. Of course the blog didn’t start out in its current form. I started in pure HTML, and later moved on to…
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On death
Besides the coincidence of 1.4m visits on my sixth blogiversary, it is also the birthday of an old and dear friend, who I only met after my blogging started. And today the coincidences grew. My paternal grandmother died at 7.30 this morning, after a long illness. My abiding memory of my grandmother is the best…
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Leaked documents
I always find Wikileaks a source of amazement. The latest leaks included: UK Counter Insurgency Operations Doctrine 2007 Secret Ritual of Sigma Phi Epison 1984 US Special Forces counterinsurgency manual FM 31-20-3 UK Tactics for Iraq and Afghanistan 2007 US Suppression of Enemy Air Defense chapter 2 Venezuela buying millions in spy equipment from US…
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test
Test Update: Sorry, posted with an iPhone 3G. Maybe I will get one.