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Why do you keep coming back?

Quite a few of you are regular readers. You either subscribe for email or RSS updates, or you’ve bookmarked this site and it interests you enough to keep coming back. What is it that keeps you coming back? What particular … Read more …

Alan Seeks A Boss

I found some websites yesterday talking about finding a boss that you’d love to work for instead of simply finding a job. I fell in love with the idea! Everyone out there looking for work is doing it the same … Read more …

Simple is good

One of the things that’s been important to me is simplicity, and even though I’ve tried to use images in my website designs, I’ve always tried to find some kind of balance between simplicity and including imagery. I know that … Read more …

The top 5 searches that bring people here

Search engines are probably the most popular resource on the internet. Any question that a person has, or a problem they have in their life, the search engine is the tool of choice to help them find the answers they’re … Read more …

I have a new commenting system

I  have a new commenting system set up now because DISQUS has been a mighty pain in the ass. I’ve noticed some significant problems with it recently, which I haven’t been able to resolve, and I’ve also had some users … Read more …

Let’s build The Journey Network

Many years ago, back when blogging became popular, bloggers created blogging networks and blog rolls, where they promoted their favourite blogs on their own blog and helped build a community of like-minded blogs and bloggers. Many of us have forgotten … Read more …

It’s time to step outside the wire

I’m going to be taking the plunge over the next few days and will be establishing a premium mailing list with weekly updates planned to “help you make better choices to create a better life for yourself”. I was reading … Read more …

Writing about my journey through life

I’ve noticed – and you’ve probably noticed too – that MOST blogs and websites out there are writing about stuff they can help people with. They’re providing value, helping visitors find answers to the questions they have, which brought them … Read more …

It’s done – my new blog is now live

Ah, what a relief it is. There’s now 146 posts that have been manually imported from my old Ghost blog, with categorisation enabled, and images also manually imported and configured. Finally, we’re back to WordPress. I hope you enjoy this … Read more …

Some more changes are coming

[Disclaimer: this is a technical post. You can ignore this one if you don’t care about blog setups and DNS stuff.] Just when you thought things had settled down a bit, I up and change them again. While I’ve been … Read more …

I’ve been a bit busy

I want to apologise to my regular readers for not having written anything for a couple days. I’ve been busy doing something else. I’m going to be breaking off my online services from this personal blog and putting it all … Read more …