Effect of going private on readership

Not an attention whore (I don't think) bust this is what going private does to your stats.

BTW, if you get a chance, go and see "Beautiful Kate"

Started posting family stuff over at the new blog.

Deleting family stuff out of this blog today. New family posts are over at protection from chaos.
email me if you want the password to the more private posts.

600 posts

Now just like Carolina it's time to split this blog in two.

http://protectionfromchaos.wordpress.com/ will be the safe for work and mum blog


Emunctory will descend into a miasma of innuendo and tripe.

A story you will never know more about

Have a friend who is, well, can't say much, but found himself in a funny predicament a few days ago.
He sent the following SMS before it hit the fan.
Unfortunately for you all he didn't die

Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated ...etc.

Sorry for the break in transmission.

I am alive an all is well.

The end of last year got hectic both at work and at home and I've been on a nice long holiday. What blogging time I have had I've put into splitting this blog into two.

It's too smartarsed for a family blog and too family for a smartarsed blog.

The family stuff I'll password protect post by post on a WP blog and the informal stuff will live here, for all the world to see.

Thanks for all the love btw - Now.... If anyone can suggest a glue to help whith kitty's fur...

Going Private

My wife and I had a chat about how much of our life is out there and mainly because if the kids she has asked that I restrict to blog to family and friends and people on line that I 'know'.

I'll see how it goes or I may split it into two - a place where I can continue to be a smart arse and a private one where I put anything about the kids or more personal stuff.

She grew up in Colombia where as a kid her classmates were kidnapped and their parents gunned down so it's understandable if she wants me to have a lower online profile.

Oh - and Josh is back

And here I was thinking he has gone into retirement. Go read

Steph

Steph is hanging up her keyboard.
The blogverse will be porer for her leaving but I understand why. She has been struggling with it for a while and has outgrown the girl she was. As much as I like to read about her misadventures and vicariously live the life of a self assured 20 something Sydney girl she doesn't have to pressure herself to post so that I have something to laugh at over coffee.

But what a girl - Carry and the clowns from Sex and the city are a fiction. This girl is the real deal. Smart, sassy and in control of her own destiny. But, I guess because of her outrageous, funny and at time appallingly lewd posts and commentary she reached a dizzying level of internet fame - with all the hatters and hangeroners and chattel that goes with that. The fact that she was writing about her own life and getting so much (de/con-structive) feedback would wear anyone down.

Nothing is forever. Over the years many of my fave bloggers have hung up their keyboards but this is a particularly acute parting for me.

I will miss you.

Good luck in whatever you do in life Steph - I have no doubt that you will wring as much fun and joy from this world as you can and will continue to touch the people around you with your humor.

Bye

Busy much

the students arrive on monday stop IT problem prevents them being enrolled on their on-line courses stop wife has conference stuff on and is in and out of the state at all odd hours stop To busy to post stop

Mum commented on my blog !!!

It's taken two years, several show and tells during visits, a edit to the blog saying [mum click here to comment] and a click by click phone tutorial whilst she submitted it but she finally did it.
Ok, so she commented in the wrong post but hay - WAY TO GO MUM !!

A wee bit of housekeeping

A wee bit of housekeeping.
Just applied and updated to a new template.

Actual conversation with a blogger

[snip]

... yeah but I can't blog about whats going at my house,

[pause/]

because it's illegal...

[/snip]

I'm sitting here at work in the morning having just sat down ...

I'm sitting here at work in the morning having just sat down and turned my machine on. Looking at nothing in particular I'm blowing across the top of my coffee to cool it.
The machine fires up.

sip

I'm a nerd so it's a linux laptop, ubuntu if you must know, and Iv'e a few Gdesklets bringing my RSS feeds through onto the desktop. The desktop on the machine is a photo I took out the back of Mount Blue Cow.

Up pops Laura's post about her dream.

I laugh so much I snort, blow coffee across the screen and down my shirt.

There is now coffee froth running down the ridge line between Mt Kosciusko and Blue Lake.

Whats so unique about me

Alternate title, so why am I called Unique_Stephen and not Mr Wambenger

It's all kind of a non event really. I used to work as a code monkey for a software dev firm that opened an office down in rainy, cultured Melbourne. Because Alex was moving down there from Sydney for work for a few months I took up the opportunity to work in a slightly more senior role and drink Melbourne coffee. Being an IT firm we, of course, couldn't sort out our own IT and our internal mail kept falling over. The firm had the name "unique" in it's title so we all got hotmail accounts in the form unique_[Your Name Here] etc. to use for work.
And that's it really. After they retrenched my arse and closed the office I used the account for anything online that might attract spam in preference to my 'real' account.
No flash of creative inspiration, no searching through Latin dictionaries for fascinating unusual words (that was for the blog title) or geeky 'phiber optik' handle. Now it's like an old hat that fits to well and I can no longer tell if I've changed to fit the name or the name has changed to fit me.
if the hat fits ...
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p.s. anybody called Wambenger deserves to die after a year of mating

I know a secret

Ner ne ner ne ner ner

I just got drunk dialled

It's been so long since I posted that Jen rang me to see if I was still on the planet !!!!! Fantastic to hear your voice. Funny accent tho'.

Got a crying baby - got to go. I'll post on the trip down to the south coast soon, no really I will.

Another Adventurer

I've been watching Matthew Watton's blog updated daily as he is paddling around the cost of Tasmania. Apart from some sore wrists and a bit of a vomie one night he's really doing rather well.

Good luck Matt!!!

In other news we don't have an internet connection at home so you'll just have to wait until the technicians come to fix the cable before I can post the picks of Annalise swimming and the massive ferry ride + aquarium + train ride day we had on Sunday.

A post post

I did a post about a year ago that I think was one of my best.

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nobody commented on it.


So I'm drawing attention to it here so you can all go and read it and tell me how wonderfully eclectic and clever I am or possibly just ask me who Eric Banner is.

Accidental search result

I am sure that none of these people wanted to know about my holiday.


rainforest "endangered plants " -species
Ecl%C3%A2mpsia
saddam half brother in vidio
sitting+watching+a+game
Puerto+Rico+Kids
andreas scholl
mango jam port douglas
it's life Jim but not as we know it

The last one is my fav

Library Thing

So I was having a little play around with librarything after seeing it on Jen's blog and I decided that I like it. I've seen it there and a few other places I just never bothered to click through.
I normally wouldn't have time to be playing with blogging toys like that at home but I've been building a PC for mum and dad - setting up skyp etc which leaves plenty of time to either watch little blue bars to grow across the screen or pick the eyes out of our bookshelf. I just put the newer books up or the ones that will make me look more intelligent, leaving out all the IT and Uni books and the numerous little paperbacks and most of the Spanish books and all the pulp Sci Fi. Still, it's a good start. Presently I'm reading "the book that nobody read".