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Blog end-of-month for October 2011

Tateru Nino — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:47:28 +0000

Okay, this is a little late. I’ll talk about why.


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Blog end-of-month for September 2011

Tateru Nino — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:04:27 +0000

A quieter month for me – I spent much of it being ill, and I apologise to those of you that were needlessly concerned. It wasn’t serious, but it was persistent and intrusive. All in all it has been a complicated month.

Blog end-of-month for August 2011

Tateru Nino — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:58:13 +0000

August was kind of a mixed month. Rolling health problems and other things rather limited the time I was able to spend on the blog, unfortunately. That said, it was the fifth best month on record for readership.

Blog end-of-month for July 2011

Tateru Nino — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:58:04 +0000

Well, what can I say about July?

I can say that it was the second-best month on record, and a large chunk of the responsibility for that has to go to Google.


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Stream of consciousness

Tateru Nino — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:56:54 +0000

Someone asked me recently if I would consider doing any stream-of-consciousness pieces on various topics.

I had to laugh at the suggestion.


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Blog end-of-month for June 2011

Tateru Nino — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:16:25 +0000

Another good month. Not in the top-five, but who am I to complain? After all, you folks bought me an awesome PC, for which I cannot thank you all enough.

If that’s not a good month, I don’t know what is.


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Blog end-of-month for May 2011

Tateru Nino — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:27:17 +0000

A good month overall. For readers and traffic, it was the third-best month so far.

Blog end-of-month for April 2011

Tateru Nino — Mon, 02 May 2011 05:54:08 +0000

Sorry this post was slightly delayed. You know how easy it is to get caught up in other things.

The two-second summary: A very good month, but not a record month.


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Blog end-of-month for March 2011

Tateru Nino — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:10:39 +0000

A record month for the blog indeed, for traffic, posts and profits. I must confess that I’m very pleased.


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Blog end-of-month for February 2011

Tateru Nino — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:28:45 +0000

February’s an awkward sort of a month. Just a little bit shorter than the other months of the year, and it seems to throw everything for a bit of a loop – especially cycles of bills, you’ve probably noticed. Nevertheless, amid all sorts of other scrambling, it hasn’t been a bad month.


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Blog end-of-month for January 2011

Tateru Nino — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:17:20 +0000

Well, it was a near thing this month, but the blog did even better for January than it did in December, edging December out of its position as the second-best month to-date, and almost topping October as the best month so far.

Blog end-of-month for December 2010

Tateru Nino — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:01:45 +0000

Well, December was the second-best month for the blog to-date, coming a very close second to October.


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Blog end-of-month for November

Tateru Nino — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:27:40 +0000

Not a record month this month, but then I didn’t think I’d get four record months in a row. Nevertheless it was the third best month for the blog on record.


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Blog end-of-month for October

Tateru Nino — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:03:33 +0000

Well, it’s been another record month for the blog, in terms of both readers and page-views, despite illness and infirmity getting in the way there for a while.

That’s the third month running. Thank you, everyone.

Blog end-of-month

Tateru Nino — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:52:59 +0000

Well, that month ended with a bang, what with Labbers spreading talk about buyouts. Nevertheless, even without it, it would have been a record month on the blog.


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An ending

Tateru Nino — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:03:13 +0000

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Endings, even for the things we enjoy and treasure the most, are inevitable. They’re regrettable, but they happen.

Wagner James “Hamlet” Au defecting to Blue Mars

Tateru Nino — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:16:54 +0000

Make way for “Blue World Notes” apparently. Seems our man Au is going to Avatar-Reality and Blue Mars as the in-house journo.


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Expectations and hats

Tateru Nino — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:10:55 +0000

Come Friday, Philip Rosedale and Bob Komin are going to have an inworld meeting/Q&A session in Second Life to “open up the conversation with the community about our upcoming plans around the development and future of Second Life.”


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Six words

Tateru Nino — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:38:06 +0000

So, I turned in a piece to an editor a little while back. It was 800 words that I’d slaved over and polished. I’d been in contact with multiple PR firms, done my research and hammered everything into shape.

The editor was chuffed. “I love it!” quoth he, “This is a great article!”

Why so many words?

Tateru Nino — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:01:04 +0000

It’s said that the Inuit have an unusually large number of words for snow. This is actually not true, and we’ll file it under the things that Everybody Knows but that aren’t correct. The implication is that the Inuit have been so heavily involved with snow that they’ve developed a whole bunch of specialist terms that do not exist in other languages.

Actually, English has about the same number of terms for snow as the Inuit do, because various English-speakers are just as heavily involved in snow.

So, why are there so many specialized words and terms? Not just for snow, but for pretty much everything?