Blogthings

  • The things you learn from Statcounter

    Despite once having owned a Norfolk Pine, I had no idea of the existence of Norfolk Island until I had a hit from there this evening, and one of its 1,800 residents visited.  I should have known of its existence, people from Pitcairn Island emigrated there.  Hello out there in Norfolk.

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  • Worldwide

    Statcounter has a feature that shows a map of the world with the location of your hits on it. I look at it from time to time and think it would be pretty cool to have hits from the six populated continents. (Not sure if I’ve ever had a hit from Antarctica since the Simon

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  • The look of TBOABN

    I’ve sort of settled on a look for The Birds of Arctic Bay, Nunavut (TBOABN) after fiddling with the design during the weekend.  Once I add some content and put it up it should look something like this…

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  • Heat, and the germ of an idea.

    I just got in from enjoying a coffee on our deck. It has been a lazy day so far, and I’m actually the only one awake right now.  But it is a typically bright sunny day and I headed out to the corner of the deck between the living room and Hilary’s room to enjoy

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  • Thoughts on the Sidebar

    I’ve grown frustrated with my collections of links on the sidebar.  I need to do a bit of spring cleaning, and remove the dead links and inactive blogs I know, but that’s not it.  It is the growing length of the links I put up there. I have to admit I’m conflicted. On one hand

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  • Best NWT Blogs

    Megan, she of the fantastic, occasionally scary (in a David Hasselhoff stalking sort of way), Reflections in the snow-covered hills has created the NWT equivalent of the Nunies – Best NWT Blogs.  The nominations are now open so head on over there and contribute darn it. 

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  • Google queries. You’re looking for what?

    I really should keep a list of the the things people are searching for on Google, that bring them to the House. There are some queries that I get all the time, like Purple Saxifrage. Every day I get hits for Purple Saxifrage and I still don’t understand how there can be that much interest

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  • Raised By Ravens

    I’ve settled on a design for my moleskines.  Not ideally what I envisioned (and I’m using stolen graphics – sorry), but I just couldn’t wait. I’ve not much patience when it comes to consumerism.  Unfortunately I seem to need to buy things I desire post haste. Here’s what the cover will look like.

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  • Stats

    I’m an inveterate Stat checker.  I can’t help myself.  In fact I’m pretty sure I’d get a lot more done during the course of a day if I didn’t take "just one more look" to see who’s coming for a visit.  I no longer fret about them.  I’m happy when people are visiting, I’m still

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  • Ennui

    It’s been a struggle to want to write anything on the blog these days and I’m not sure why.  Perhaps its the flu that has been lingering. Perhaps its the warm weather that leaves me gazing out of the window instead of the computer screen. Perhaps its a pile of other work that I’m also

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