A new look for a new year
This is my fifth New Year as a resident of Berneray and the Outer Hebrides.
It’s January 1st, and as I was getting a bit fed up of my cluttered website and blog, I’ve changed the theme. It’s now the Nice Wee Sites theme, running on an installation of Wordpress 2.7.
The adverts for Berneray calendars et al have gone, as the clutter was getting a bit daft. These items are still for sale (I get back a few pounds for each one which goes towards the costs of hosting the Berneray website), and can be viewed and purchased on the Isle of Berneray e-shop on Cafepress.
I’ve been blogging now for 3 years and 2 months, though of late this has diminished somewhat due to work divergence, and also returning to Twitter (microblogging). Various bits of software pump out irrelevant statistics, and they show that during that time I’ve:
- Written 512 blog entries.
- … comprising of 119,386 words.
- Gotten 957 (approved) comments back.
- … and over 70,000 spam comments, most automatically generated.
Heck, that is a lot of words; in fact it’s about a book and a half in size.
On the picture front, my Flickr account now has 1,235 pictures in it. Considering the variable speed at which I write, and the fact that the vast majority (easily 90%+) of pictures I take I delete without putting on line, it’s suddenly easy to see how the last few years have flown past.
I like the new minimalist look – and am working on cleaning mine up too. Happy new year for 2009. I’m determined to make it a great year.
70,000 spam comments!!! That’s scary! I’ve become a little involved in the new Island Blogging site (www.island-blogging.co.uk) set up after the BBC decided to pull the plug on the original site. So far there have been few, if any, spam comments, partly I believe due to me encouraging everyone to activate Akismet on their blogs. The site has however been plagued by spammers signing up for blogs although between the guy running the site and myself we have managed to keep them at bay with no spam content being posted. Look like it’s going to be an ongoing struggle though!