Up with the lark: 5.50am and blogging

I'm still getting used to this internet thing. Don't get me wrong. I love it. I love that I can be sitting in my kitchen all on my ownio, using pre-historic phrases in a letter to the world. But this blogspot for now is part of the great experiment that is getting used to the internet's reach. I like blogspot because the designers have chosen an elegant format for people like me. The font for the banner, the white space and the very cute, squat and chubby B it has for its logo. I'll discover the rest of its charms as this gets filled with more interesting content. See? I have faith.
I've no idea yet of the importance or otherwise of backlinking, or how it fits into the concept of getting traffic, which seems a crude and ugly term for inviting people to like and enjoy your essays. I understand that linking is probably best if done with the reader's convenience in mind, but I've found so far from writing on Hubpages that I usually only add links to people I've found enriching.

Irish handbag makers

If anyone I know gets this as an email or a personal notification, can you mail me and let me know so I can see where it's distributed. Sorry if it's peeving people, but this is part of the web course I'm doing

Irish handbag makers

gung ho fat choi

Happy New Year to everyone subscribing to the Chinese calendar. Having written off the whole month of January 2010 as being a false start to the year, the start of the Year of the Tiger is now officially the moment when the year starts here.

Irish handbag makers

Irish handbag makers

Turning Japanese

Seeing as the month of January was something of a black hole between the snowfest and consequent hibernation, I'm going to take the Chinese new year - Feb 14 - as being my new year. It's the year of the tiger afterall and as a water tiger I just know it's going to be a good one. I can feel it in my water.