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Daily Life
First thing sorry about this being my first post in nearly 2 months.
Life has being very busy with work and doing a lot of overtime, and a trip up to Sydney for the weekend to go to the AFA Sydney get together and catch up with some friends, Also went to Port Macquarie for the day, Was a great weekend but came home so tired.
Went and checked out Shrek Forever after and cinemas the other week,
The movie was better than I expected, My main complaint was it took to long to get into the movie kind of a fast overview of the first 3 movies which I don’t believe was really needed.
Holiday Plans
Also being busy organizing my trip over to the US where I am visiting Washington DC and Los Angles (Disneyland) I will be away about 12 days I leave for the trip on Wednesday. Very exciting.
I will try and make a couple of Blog entries while I am away if I can get access to the computer.
Tech Update
When I get back from US and I am planning on purchasing an iPad and new Mackbook laptop and also looking a getting iPhone 4 in a couple of months once they are available in Australia.
Web Projects
Still working away on a few on my web sites have a bit more work to do before it will go live, However I will keep everyone updated as things progress,
In Project news I have now updated my Blog to run on WordPress 3.0 have not noticed many major changes yet however am hoping to have a bit of look through over the next couple of days and will try and get a reivew up before I leave to go overseas on Wednesday.
Today
Today I am off to see Toy Story 3 in the movies with Kat.
I will post a short review of the movie later today or tomorow.
I am sure there is plenty more I could write, but I have to run and get organsied to head out soon, So until next time hope every one is well.
Today I thought I would I give an update on a few of my different web site projects,
So last week I look at reasons to get rid of my Facebook account this week I have decided to look at reasons to keep my Facebook account, I thought I would make a list of reasons so here it goes:
Wow that was a short list of reasons to keep my account, As this stage I have to admit deleting my account is winning, I never would have thought, But being me I will not rush into it and delete my account, I will think about it over the next few weeks, If you can come with any more reasons to Keep or Delete a Facebook account feel free to add them as a comment.
Of recent weeks, I have be evaluating whether or not I want to keep my Facebook account, With different privacy concerns appearing nearly every week and the ever changing and confusing Privacy Policy it leaves me to wonder do I really Trust Facebook any more or I would be happier without it.
To help me answer this question I have being doing some research on Facebook privacy and Reasons to Delete a Facebook account, Below are a links to a few of the articles I have read and am using to help me decide what to do with my facebook account.
Crikey Australia – 10 Reasons to Delete your facebook account.
Gizmodo – Reasons you should quit facebook
Facebook Group – Why would you want to Delete your account
The Net Is Dead – 5 Reasons I hate facebook
There are of course thousands of articles out there on Why you should delete your facebook account.
Ok Before anyone comments I will also be posting a Blog Entry on reasons to keep a facebook account in the next week.
Ok I know it is a bit sad but I thought I would share the stats for my site for the last 10 months, So here the are:
| Month | Number of requests | Number of page requests | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | August 2009 | 3,466 | 417 |
| 2. | September 2009 | 1,771 | 288 |
| 3. | October 2009 | 2,148 | 427 |
| 4. | November 2009 | 5,330 | 1,071 |
| 5. | December 2009 | 3,064 | 771 |
| 6. | January 2010 | 2,570 | 477 |
| 7. | February 2010 | 3,372 | 701 |
| 8. | March 2010 | 3,523 | 1,033 |
| 9. | April 2010 | 4,284 | 1,566 |
| 10. | May 2010 | 1,171 | 335 |
Most active month April 2010 : 1,566 pages sent. 5,330 requests handled.
Monthly average: 708 pages sent. 3,069 requests handled.
As most people have probably herd in the last week a NASA Balloon crashed in Australia when they attempted to launch it, No one was hurt or injured which is good news, But it does make we wonder how can they launch a rocket a simple thing like a Balloon can go so wrong.
Below are few links to some of my favorite News articles on the crash:
Gather.com – NASA Balloon Crash VIDEO
Bigpond.com NEWS – NASA balloon crashes in outback NT
National Geographic – NASA balloon crashes in Australia
You can find thousands more articles on this by Searching Google News.
Today being April 1 or April Fools Day I thought I would share a few random things I have found net
Apple iTable – Apple iTable – http://www.cnet.com.au/apple-announces-the-itable-339302183.htm
Channel 7 Sunrise Aussie Rules the World – http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/soapbox/article/-/article/7009815/afls-new-round-ball-plan/
I found this video a great inspiration.
Happy Easter and Have a Great Weekend Everyone.
Well this weekend is the Easter Long weekend, Hope everyone has a nice relaxing long weekend, and eats lots of choclate LOL, I know I will be 
Well my time the last 2 weeks has being consumed by Work and different web projects I am working on,
The first Web Project I have being working on an online forum for a charity I am working with, This project has being a particular challenge as the site needs to meet very strict accessibility guidelines and be highly customizable by the users who log in.
The Second project is an online guide to making a web site for beginners, This site is going to be based around weekly entries exploring different topics.
The Third project is my Easy Web Site Accessibility Blog, I have being busy writing different articles to post none of them have being posted yet as they are with my editor getting checked and any changes being made.
The Fourth project is a online charity portal which is going to contain information on different charities kind of like a directory.
I will post links to the different web site as times goes and sites are out of testing stage.
Today entry has being a challenge to write so far I sat here for 10 minutes and not written a thing.
I have decided to start this post off I will post the visitor stats for 2010 if anyone is interested
| Month | Number of requests | Number of page requests | |
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| 1. | January 2010 | 2,570 | 477 |
| 2. | February 2010 | 1,754 | 362 |
Top search terms on my site for all time:
1. bracegirdle
2. glen
3. misty’s
4. diner
5. @words.txt
6. christmas
I will make a real post in the next couple of days.
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