Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Analytics, Stories, and the Dark Side of Earth

First and foremost, I'd like to give a friendly shoutout to all my readers. I was checking my google analytics this morning and I'm amazed at how many of you there are, (and how many of you are craftily avoiding the commenting system) it was a pleasant surprise, and I'm glad I decided to return to a regular blogging regime and that people are enjoying my tales.

Secondly - once more, those of you that haven't delved into the deep dark dinosaur-like depths of my sidebar, please feel welcome! I must in particular draw your attention to Ashton X, which may soon begin drawing to a close. If you haven't jumped on the proverbial large wooden literary bandwagon, I encourage you to hop over and spend a good half hour perusing the entries, start at the beginning mind you, I'd hate you to spoil things for yourself.
I mention this in particular now because Luke Van Troubadier III (the author) has said he feels himself that things may soon tie up, (if I'm wrong on that I guess I'll find out soon enough) but it's been quite a ride so far, and like so many addictive weekly installments of a certain TV series, I find the anticipation waiting for the next is almost as much fun as reading the entries themselves.

Finally, (and admittedly this is a short entry because once again I'm rather busy with... things.) tomorrow night something rather spectacular will take place around the globe. Yes, at 7:00pm we'll witness the first of four celestial eclipses to take place in 2008. This time it's a lunar eclipse, admittedly not as spectacular in my opinion as a solar eclipse, but who's complaining - it's still just darn cool. Apparently people in Canada, East Asia, the Pacific, North and Central America and Alaska will see this occurrence, so perhaps my claim of 'global' is a little excessive. Nevertheless if you're in a region you think will be able to catch a glimpse of the moon itself sliding into Earth's Umbral shadow, check out what time each phase is scheduled & get the lowdown on the whole shebang here.
Yes I'm a geek, I also have numerous granola bars in my cupboard...

Until next week, stay funky-fresh people!

Jimzip :D

5 thoughts are now mine:

Luke said...

Ohh Google analytics - I didn't know such a thing existed. Must investigate...

A short blog entry but seeing as it was pretty much an ad for my blog (not to mention my work in organising the lunar eclipse) I liked! I'm very flattered.

And yep, story should be wrapped up by May - but there's still quite a few things left to happen. Hell, I haven't even introduced the talking dragon yet...

Jimzip said...

Oh haha, I meant to add a quote by you in Edwardian language thus tying your new name together in an attempt at humour.. dang it.
I'll also send you an email explaining the aforementioned analytics software. Hark, to the West, my email arrives! That's all I got...

Jimzip :D

lissy said...

ah ha ha! you re going to kill me!

check the wall posts for the ashton X thing. God I hope I did it right!

xox

Jimzip said...

lol You did you did.
A+ for effort there.

Jimzip :D

Dale said...

It's not easy to stay freshly funkified... You're making things quite difficult you know. :P

And Luke - is it selfish that I want you to just keep writing Ashton for the rest of eternity? I shall employ you if it comes to that. :)



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