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Becoming a travel blogger

A few months ago, as I was returning home from a trip to Melbourne, I was thinking about how much I enjoy traveling, photography, and blogging. I was thinking about how enjoyable it would be to combine them all into … Read more …

I’ve won a new award!

Back in 2009 I won an award for 6th best blog about life and travel in Australia and New Zealand. I’ve just been notified that I’ve won it again for 2011.  That’s pretty cool. Thank you Tripbase!

I’m back on my blog

As some of you might have known, I moved across to try out Tumblr for a while, seeing how that worked for me. But it didn’t work out very well at all. The things I wanted to do with it, … Read more …

This blog needs a clean out

There’s over 1,000 posts in this blog, with the majority of them being in the ‘Pre-2006’ section.  I’ve decided that I need to clean up those posts by getting rid of what’s useless, and appropriately categorizing the rest of them. … Read more …

New domain

If you have a look up there in the address bar, you’ll notice that this site is no longer alanzeyes.blogspot.com but is instead www.alanzeyes.com That’s right, I got myself a domain name. There’ll be a few more changes coming up … Read more …

The dummy spit is over

Yesterday I had a bit of a dummy spit concerning this blog, new templates, blogger’s server problems, and accidentally deleting my old template… Well, today’s a new day and all the problems of yesterday are gone. Blogger fixed their server … Read more …

Some BIG changes!

Until further notice, this blog is being updated here: http://alanzeyes.wordpress.com Before I explain why, please take the time to visit the new location and update your bookmarks / RSS feeds / subscription options. I do apologise for any inconvenience this … Read more …

Images in posts

Some time ago I tried an experiment where I would put an image into a blog post. My rule for this was that it had to be an image I had photographed myself. It didn’t last very long before I … Read more …

Most popular posts

Continuing on with the ‘most popular’ theme, these are the most popular posts on this blog at this point: 1 Alanz Eyes2 Do you live with a passive aggressive partner?3 Use the Law of Attraction to find love4 My name … Read more …

How do you explain blogging?

I was just reading over here about how the author explained blogging to his grannie. Quite amusing, but it also reminded me of those times I’ve also had to explain blogging to old people. Everyone, regardless of age, is aware … Read more …

Subscribe via email

I’ve noticed that I get a bunch of regular visitors who keep coming back, and who don’t use RSS feeds to keep up to date with new posts. For you, I’ve implemented ‘Subscribe via email’. Enter your email address into … Read more …