Dalai lama, cards and murder

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I read some inspiring posts by Peter, a master of thought over at Necessary Skills. Peter explains how, as a younger man, he read that the secret to life is to be happy - but it seemed too simplistic. His doubts sent him on a lifetime journey to find a more substantial answer.

After years of fruitless searching, he eventually went back to the first answer and has lived happily ever after. That will teach him to ignore the Dalai Lama.

Whist and murder

Some years ago, I spent time in Nepal,

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Different styles of blog

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Communication has one purpose - to convey meaning to others - but when you blog, you need to remember a couple of points else your point is lost.

Writer guidelines say: Did you know that 79% of web users scan the page instead of reading word-for-word? That people read from computer screens 25% slower than from paper? Or that web content should have 50% of the word count of its paper equivalent?

Communication comes in many different forms in blogging

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This parrot is dead.

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A friend used to have a parrot, and it was a bastard that used to peck everyone whenever it was allowed to fly around the house. To make life somewhat bearable, they let it free in the loft, out of harm's way, then coaxed it down when it was time for bed. (btw, I would peck too if I was that intelligent and sentenced to being kept in a loft and a cage for most of my 50 years on earth.)

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MyBlogLog Sunday 4: gummi bear & review winner

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1lb of gummi bears + indepth review goes to whichever of the 10 blogs featured last week refers the most traffic to The Pisstakers up to midnight Saturday this week.

Amid drum rolls and cheering, this week's winner of gummi bears and a review is bobbarama.Yay!

Although unable, thus far, to match the monumental traffic generated by Poliwog's Pond, Bob's been featured 3 weeks running.

Bob's a born winner and he is going to add us to his blogroll. Also,if h.

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Gordon the goat

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I was laughing my head off at a documentary piece on Gordon, a billy goat held as a pet in a suburban English garden. He was big, even for a billy, and his owner was a pint-size quintissentially English woman.

Basically, until the animal behaviorist got stuck in, the goat ruled the house. The funny bits of a serious documentary were

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Meme's and stellar stumble stats

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Ain't blogging great when you stick at it and something sticks.

Stumble Upon

It should be called swamp or deluge!

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Monday morning blues

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Blimey, it's Monday already. Or more to the point, it's Monday afternoon. Ooops. That was a late start. But I have an excuse.

MyBlogLog Sunday seemed to capture the imagination and has generated more comments, feedback and spin-off articles than ever before in the history of the ~~internet,~~ Pisstakers. The 10 blogs captured at 11.04 in the MyBlogLog widget in my sidebar yesterday received a masterful one liner review from Yours truly, Ed.

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MyBlogLog Sunday 4 summary

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Update: Hello again. And on Easter day he constructed MyBlogLog Sunday part 4 at the Pisstakers.

At 11.04 Easter Day coffee time, I took a snapshot of the 10 MyBlogLog bloggers who last visited the Pisstakers. This is the gang with the homepage to themselves later on Sunday. Whether you are a super surfer or a blogger, I hope you enjoy reading my one-liner summary before visiting 10 diverse blogs.

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