Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

RIP WordPress Blogs?

The FT reports the stunning growth of "tumblr." Blogs, which enjoyed 55 million uniques last month, & more page views than all the WordPress Blogs combined.

Can anyone tell me about "tumblr."?

I'm keen to take a look at it for business purposes, but it must have good SEO, & not be behind any sort of paywalls.

OK, gotta go, Orford is tapping his toes. He might be a great guy, but he's a shocking diva.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1bSB3gCMo

Source?

I guess you're referring to hosted wordpress accounts, rather than including self-hosted wordpress blogs?  Even so, yes tumblr has grown rapidly.

No idea if your assumption is correct, it is all a bit complicated to me. Amazing how fast the pecking order changes in the world of Online-ness.

So, perhaps you could decode this for me.....

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2e28758-11e2-11e0-92d0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz19by6gciA

[tikay]

How does he do it? Last night's £220 Tourney next door was scooped by none other than.....

DrMarbles 250000 1 £3000 

MBN to be Andrew T.

Well done Mr T.

[AndrewT]

It's all down to the tips and tuition you provide next door.

I make sure I carefully avoid watching any of it and it's an easy game.

[kinboshi]

RIP WordPress Blogs?

The FT reports the stunning growth of "tumblr." Blogs, which enjoyed 55 million uniques last month, & more page views than all the WordPress Blogs combined.

Can anyone tell me about "tumblr."?

I'm keen to take a look at it for business purposes, but it must have good SEO, & not be behind any sort of paywalls.

OK, gotta go, Orford is tapping his toes. He might be a great guy, but he's a shocking diva.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1bSB3gCMo

Source?

I guess you're referring to hosted wordpress accounts, rather than including self-hosted wordpress blogs?  Even so, yes tumblr has grown rapidly.

No idea if your assumption is correct, it is all a bit complicated to me. Amazing how fast the pecking order changes in the world of Online-ness.

So, perhaps you could decode this for me.....

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2e28758-11e2-11e0-92d0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz19by6gciA

More on it here:

http://www.blogherald.com/2010/12/18/tumblr-catching-up-to-wordpress-com/

Looks like wordpress is still comfortably number one for bloggs, but tumblr has certainly come out of the blue and has firmly placed itself up there.

[Claw75]

well done Mr T!

[tikay]

Last night - NYE - I was a little unwell, & fearing the worst with the Sky Poker Deal about to be announced.

Today, I'm fit & well again, in mind & body, & happy.

Off to Luton for the NYD £150 jobbie now. I found an old Diary at home yesterday during the ongoing salvage operation, & it noted that I won this Comp for £1,800 - in 2001!

Gonna meet Tom down there, too, which I'm delighted about - not played Poker with him in ages, & I have a book to show him, which I know he'll love.

I lost a bit of my discipline (patience) during my last 2 or 3 Luton Tourneys earlier this week, even though I chopped one of them, so I'm gonna try to rectify that tonight. 2010 was perhaps my most enjoyable poker year ever, I played a lot less Live, due to work, but enjoyed it more as a result. Overall, Live, Online, & a bit of ad-hoc staking I did, (at which I was outrageously fortunate) I came out a shade under £15,000 ahead, so a free hobby, & spending money as a bonus, can't be bad.

Life is good, if only I were a shade younger, life as I know it cannot continue much longer, I'm convinced.

OK, the M1 awaits, & then, tomorrow, I am doing the Show, so it's back to work. Which is good.

[AndrewT]

I know you're a coffee man but I thought you should read this by Christopher Hitchens - the most important article ever published.

http://www.slate.com/id/2279601/

[boldie]

I know you're a coffee man but I thought you should read this by Christopher Hitchens - the most important article ever published.

http://www.slate.com/id/2279601/

If you use a pot at all, make sure it is pre-warmed. (I would add that you should do the same thing even if you are only using a cup or a mug.

Soo true, those who don't should be shot.

[AndrewT]

I made myself a bit unpopular by opting out of the tea round in the office because I just couldn't bear to drink tea made by anyone else.

[MereNovice]

I know you're a coffee man but I thought you should read this by Christopher Hitchens - the most important article ever published.

http://www.slate.com/id/2279601/

If you use a pot at all, make sure it is pre-warmed. (I would add that you should do the same thing even if you are only using a cup or a mug.

Soo true, those who don't should be shot.

Does swishing a bit of boiling water around a mug to remove the worst of the gunge and, hopefully, kill a few germs count as warming the mug?

[RED-DOG]

I made myself a bit unpopular by opting out of the tea round in the office because I just couldn't bear to drink tea made by anyone else.

Myself and two of my brothers like to make our own tea. My dad was the same.

It's OK for a family member who knows our little idiosyncrasies to do it, but we prefer strangers to let us do our own.

A girl in the office was making a brew the other day and asked me how I like my tea. I told her to just put the tea bag in and I would do the rest.

After giving it some time to brew properly, I went to get my tea and found a tea bag in the cup, but no water.

[boldie]

I made myself a bit unpopular by opting out of the tea round in the office because I just couldn't bear to drink tea made by anyone else.

I do the same, can't even remember someone else in the office making me a cuppa. MrsB makes a good cuppa though

[gatso]

it maddens me how many english people are incapable of making a decent cuppa. and as for letting yanks, aussies, kiwis do it, well you can forget that, what they produce is barely fit to flush straight down the loo

[kinboshi]

I made myself a bit unpopular by opting out of the tea round in the office because I just couldn't bear to drink tea made by anyone else.

Myself and two of my brothers like to make our own tea. My dad was the same.

It's OK for a family member who knows our little idiosyncrasies to do it, but we prefer strangers to let us do our own.

A girl in the office was making a brew the other day and asked me how I like my tea. I told her to just put the tea bag in and I would do the rest.

After giving it some time to brew properly, I went to get my tea and found a tea bag in the cup, but no water.

To be fair, she'd followed your directions perfectly.  I bet you giggled.

[tikay]

Respect to Mondy, who updates his Diary so frequently. Every single day I plan to update, & I never seem to get there. I really need to organise myself better, though in mitigation, I do have quite a bit on these days.

Anyways, for starters, it would help if I was fitter, physically & mentally, but before I lay out the plan to solve that, I need to put this tea-making nonsense to bed.....