Some catchup with those fries….

So! I’m finally here in my new home… for whatever reason I feel cosy about the blog too!

Firstly, I want to thank everyone who has given feedback on the blog – it helps me keep things simple and user friendly! Although the layout was not my first choice, I am growing to love it; I like dark colours with bright trims, so this one is fulfilling its purpose!

For those who haven’t noticed – I have updated the blogroll; if you don’t find yourself on there, then I obviously don’t follow your blog – drop me a comment, and I will add you to my reader and blogroll!

I have also added a twitter plugin (I really don’t know why!), but I love the concept of tweeting! It’s such a simple idea of “thinking out loud”. I have also made some good friends via twitter, and it goes to prove that it isn’t all that an addiction…. no matter what Mr Tweet, Marwa, and Digital Niqabi say!

I setup google analytics for the blog because unlike wordpress.com, the hosted site requires add-ins to display the stats. I found some of the statistical breakdown amazing, and a touch scary! The amount of data, and the capability which google have to collect this data is just phenomenal. Here is a snapshot of where visitors came from, to this blog yesterday.

Ok, so it’s easy to figure out the locations of each reader (IP addresses), but google analytics actually records the amount of time spent on individual pages – now that I think is an interesting and impressive amount of useless information!

As part of the blog move, I also quietly mentioned that I will be opening the blog to guest posts again. This time, I am looking for you guys to blog about “memories” – these can be good/bad, and all go hand in hand with the blog move. I have my own post lined up, so look out for that! Those of you who have already told me that you would like to participate, drop me a post in a Word Document by email, and I will put it up during the course of the month. For all new readers, do make sure you catch up with 7Pi7D to see how we collaborate on this blog!

Ok… enough rambling for one night… real blogging (after quite a few days) from tomorrow!

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