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Feb 27 08

At approximately 1.00 am this morning Upstart Blogger HQ was hit by an earthquake which according the the news this morning measured 5.2 on the Richter scale.
Earthquakes of that size are so rare that my first thought was that we had a poltergeist zooming around the house. Either that or some sort of skydiving […]

Earthquake

Feb 22 08

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Despite the blogosphere’s rocket like growth over the last few years I’m convinced that we are still at the beginning of it’s development. My reasoning for this is based on the amount of people that I know in the offline world who are bloggers.
I know five bloggers in the real world.
Five. And that […]

How many bloggers do you know in the offline world?

Feb 17 08

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As weeks go the last seven days have been terrible. Viruses have attacked our health and miscreants have attacked our website. Thankfully, eight days later, things are a lot calmer.
I’ve got a lot of email to catch up on and plenty of comments that need approving and replying to. If you’ve sent […]

That was the week that was

Feb 16 08

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The astonishing work of art you see above is a hand made fully functional computer keyboard, turned out by Richard Nagy and proudly displayed on his website Data Mancer. Each keyboard is custom made for it’s owner and every one is absolutely unique. The one in the photograph is called Von Slatt, others […]

Become a truly decadent blogger with this amazing piece of kit

Feb 13 08

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Upstart Blogger is currently all over the place, little bits scattered here and there. Things could get a little shaky around here until everything is fixed and nailed down. It’s going to be tricky but thankfully the hosting super heroes at AN Hosting are on the case. More news when I get […]

Upstart Blogger is under attack

Feb 10 08

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This post was written on Monday lunchtime and posted with a date stamp of the previous day. It relates to what happened on Sunday and is also explains why Sunday’s post is being written today.
On Friday our house was attacked by the Norovirus. If you are not aware of this nasty bug here […]

The attack of the Norovirus

Feb 02 08

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It seems like only yesterday that I unveiled the 2008 plan for Upstart Blogger. After 31 days I’m pleased to report that traffic is up. Unique visitors are up 11%, page views are up 32%, RSS subscribers are up 27% and Upstart Blogger’s Technorati rank has jumped from 344 to 264 making the […]

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