Excellent news, EIM.

I have spent most of the last week or so fiddling around with the new blog, and it looks as if this new, "commercial" edge that I was going for is going down the pan already. I've already ripped out a big gap that was reserved for adverts and replaced it with a free advert for Supporters Direct.

I'm going to work in an office doing stuff that I hate forever.

This is why you should always leave design to someone else, and concentrate on content.

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it looks as if this new, "commercial" edge that I was going for is going down the pan already

Your writing is excellent and a worthy addition to anyone's feed reader. Don't necessarily give up on trying to make some money out of it.

At least you might be able to get your hosting paid for out of it.

Someone found my site using the search term 'rotting corpse'. I assume they left disappointed.

"funeral valedictions" is the oddest search term used by someone to find my site in the past month (there was also a "billy turley cocaine" search, which is nice). On Saturday my site had 162 page views, which is the lowest since records began (about three years ago, or so). I blame close-season apathy.

EIM, has there been any traffic from my blog to your Wrong Terrence one after I bigged you up on Friday?

Ah, that explains why there was a spike in interest. How the devil did you find out I'd updated it after a year?

Blimey. Just read your blog. How humbling.

You're using the same URL as you did for the aborted Wrong Terrence blog. So I've been checking periodically to see whether you've done anything with it.

Really, please do keep that one going. I think there ought to be a repository for some of your musings on OTF, so I'd suggest that you post some of your better posts of random reflections on your blog. Hmmm, thread idea coming up.......

Just noticed that someone found my blog by searching on Google Italy for the seemingly unlikely term "Milton Keynes dialect". Following in the same footsteps, I notice, also throws up this interesting blog, entitled What i think?, by one spunkyspider.

Unfortunately, as is is so often the case with a new blog, it proved difficult for spunkyspider to keep up the momentum and What i think? lasted for a mere three posts, all of them back in January 2006. But they're all worth a look. This, for instance, is entitled IM LATE FOR MY MEETING:

WHY do c**ts/modern day cavemen or Neanderthal decicde to over take at F**KING stupid places on the road. We all know they think about them selves that why the cars they drive usually coincide off BMW vaxvaull ASTRA(well that's the ones ive encounter any way)oh and wanky BOY racers(I empathasize that because they are,look at them ugly spoty cant speak (UG UG)is the normall termanollgoy given when asking some,thing but what gets me and most of the other pepole i kow is how the f**k did they get that stunning ladie it not looks or a big dick thats why they have t**t mobiles that bolt together)DO these people have a mcro chip implanted in threr verry thick skull that activates when the drive across a layline and puts them into C**T mode(must do to over take on a blind corner for one exsample)IF these people just thougt about what else is happening on the road and not in there imaganarry world there would be less road accidends and for the C**TS that use MOBILE PHONES AND DRINK DRIVERS YOU LOT CAN GO BAG PIPE YOUR SELF AND START STRAYING YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO BE ON THE ROADS.

spunkyspider dropped his blog when carcass resurrected his Mr Agreeable persona on The Quietus.

I've won an award for my 'The Perfect Bacon Sandwich' post. http://www.postoftheweek.com

That's brilliant. Congratulations. Did you ever find put who nominated you?

My figures have, as expected, plummeted through the floor since the change-over. I've been offered a gig writing weekly elsewhere, and I'm thinking of taking it up.

Wouldn't the plummet in figures be due to the end of the season? I check our podcast's stats once a week, just to make sure everything's ticking over but other than that, I'm enjoying the break and trying not to think about it until August.