I realize to some readers, it may appear I am stooping to an all time low, resorting to using a title like this.
(for those looking for the 10 sure fire ways, keep reading, I won't let you down)
For the rest of you who are rolling your eyes at my new and brilliant scheme, this may appear to be an act of desperation but I will have you know that I am performing an experiment of great value.
A few days ago, as you know, I installed Google Analytics.
It has come to my attention that a large percentage of visitors stay less than ten seconds, which means they are either stupendously fast readers or illiterate.
There is a slight possibility that it is due to a deficiency in my cool batrachian graphics or dazzlingly entertaining content.
However slight the possibility, I must address it.
Now, you understand the necessity of the title.
Experiment: observe the effects that different titling has on the stats and modify my content to suit.
For those of you hoping for ten sure fire ways, who are at this point feeling a rising sense of disappointed and disillusionment do not despair! I really am working on it. Wracking my brain. I realize, being a woman myself it should be an easy one for me to figure this out. The illegal ones are easy, it's the legal ones that are giving me some trouble.
The good news though is that if it really is a sure fire way, you wont need ten will you, you will only need one.
It's just that ten sounded so much more exciting.
That makes the job one tenth as difficult as it sounds.
If this title has no effect on my readership, I shall have to resort to imitating famous people from Star Trek.
Again.
Now on to the journal bit. Here is a brief run down of the past month:
Enki and I finally got married. On November 30th.
We left for our honeymoon to Jamaica on December 1st.
I am sure you all can't wait to hear all about how great our vacation was while you were all stuck at home in a snow storm. Well you wont have to wait long, but you will have to wait. We are putting our usual vacation website together with shocking photos and scandalous stories and it is almost ready. I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise.
Real estate prices are finally starting to drop in Vancouver. So hopefully we wont have to pay sixty million dollars for a garden shed.
Emma caught a Skunk. Tasty tasty skunk. I have not the words.
I think 2007 is going to be an interesting year. That sounds like an ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." I am hoping for good interesting not plague of frogs interesting (despite the graphics).
It started off well, Smokie came to visit and to the Rant Radio meetup which went very well I might add.
Also, I ran into a friend that I haven't seen in 17 years. Very cool. He's the kind of friend that is a pleasure to run into after 17 years, not the kind that makes you panic, run in the opposite direction, commandeer the nearest vehicle which happens to have a blue handicapped sticker in the window, hurl the occupant out onto the sidewalk and drive home in an evasive manner to be sure you weren't tailed.
Oh, come on, give me a break, that happens!
sometimes.
Got homemade beer in the mail from our friends Heather and Dave. You really don't have friends until you have friends that send you homemade beer in the mail.
On a side note, regarding the Google analytics:
There has been a noticeable lack of visitors from England. Being that I am from England originally and my whole traitorous and uncaring family still live there, it really makes no sense. Has anyone heard about England being cut off from civilization for the past week? Countrywide blackouts? Alien invasions? Anything? Hmmm. I may have to write some nasty letters.