Darling, you shouldn’t have …

Well This Is What I Think has very kindly been nominated for the Liebster Blog Award – Liebster meaning “my love” or “darling” – for a blog that is actually worth the paper it isn’t written on. We are a bit blown away. When we have gathered our breath we will thank Kay properly at [...]

Did My Post Suck Today?

Great article about the never-ending pain that is blogging, or writing generally. Do yourself a favour and have a great laugh. Go here: Did My Post Suck Today? Well done, Sweet Mother. Anyhow, it’s just the perfect post for one of these days … we all have them.

Blogging gives you cancer – true

You know the famous line about “if you want to get rich, invent a better mousetrap”? Well I reckon if you want to get rich, invent bread that miraculously toasts only golden brown and then stops. Yes, that’s right, people. The toast knows how it’s getting on, and turns off its capacity to be burnt [...]

On newspaper delivering and first love

The girl in the window, Salvador Dali, mid-1920s Some of the writing on WordPress is utterly charming. Emily Hauser’s work at In My Head often attains a flow of such effortlessly fluid competence that it leaves me, as a fellow professional, gasping. I have her to thank for many a heart-warming or thought-provoking start to [...]

A really great pair of tits

I do love the internet. Well, I’m fascinated by it, anyhow. One of the great things about WordPress is it lets you see which Google searches (or other search engines) have led to people dropping in on your blog. I always give it a glance, to see whether my tagging of the 100 articles I [...]

I know what will happen with the housing market

And there we have it. One outrageous claim in the headline and suddenly my blog hits go up from a hundred or so a day to un-countable thousands or more. Only “New Paris Hilton Tape Surfaces” would get me more hits, I reckon. Or maybe not; she is 30 now, when all’s said and done. [...]