My Company Blog

I recently created a blog on my company website. You can see it by clicking on the big "blog" link at the bottom or by just browsing to www.tabletopsoftware.com/blog.

Why have two blogs, I hear you say? Well, they will both serve different purposes. This one is my fun fun fun "here's what's happening in my life" kind of blog. The other one will be more work work work "here's what I'm doing with programming" kind of blog. I want potential customers to be able to see what I'm doing programming wise to build trust in my abilities. There's also some book or other called blog marketing that some guy I know wrote. It suggests blogs are a good tool to communicate with potential customers.

My blog stats from Google Analytics

I recently signed up with Google Analytics after seeing mention of it in Jeremy Wright's blog. It's pretty cool. It collects all kinds of stats regarding your visitors that I'd never even have thought about. Don't worry, it's not spyware. It's relevant information such as where in the world you're all from, what screen resolution you have, how many colours you have, what version of flash you have installed, whether or not you have JavaScript enabled and so on. All these things are really important for webmasters to know their audience and adapt the appearance of their site accordingly.

There was also a ton of marketing stuff that I've not really looked at yet but I think you can track the effectiveness of ads you've placed on other websites.

This map shows where everyone is from who's been looking at my blog recently. (Do click for a bigger image!) It's really cool to see all the nations that I've been in contact with, mostly through the School of Ministry and TACF.

Now I just need to get more potential customers to visit my company website and then I'll be in business. Wait, I am in business. I could just use a few more customers!

Chilies are cool!

I bought some chilies recently and I was fascinated by the change of colours if you leave them for long enough. It's like having your own wee autumn on the shelf!

Everyone needs a camera phone!

I was just musing to myself about some moments that would normally have to be expressed purely by word of mouth before people started carrying cameras everywhere with them. Watch in wonder and amazement as I give you the fruit of my camera phone toil and present a moment of bewilderment and repulsion captured when I discovered a glittery thong - in the men's section I might add - while shopping recently:

Don't you just love technology and how it enriches our lives on a daily basis?

Autumn

I love autumn. It's a great season. The trees in particular go through an amazing transformation as the leaves go from green to yellow, orange, red and brown. I love the fact that God's such an artist. Trees don't just die before winter. They die with style! Does anyone else think of soggy corn flakes when they see wet orange leaves in a pile at the side of the road or is that just me?

November the 6th

November the 5th has come and gone
but thoughts of it still linger.
I lit a banger with a match.
Has anyone seen my finger?

So hey, yesterday was Guy Fawkes night or "bonfire night" as it's also known. Those of you from outside the UK may not be aware of this occasion but to sum it up, there was once a conspiracy to blow up the houses of parliament and they were caught in the nick of time, with all sorts of barrels of gunpowder stacked in the basement ready to go. One guy (ho ho) called Guy Fawkes took the fall for it, quite literally. That is to say, he was executed for it. I don't know if he was hanged but probably.

Celebrations of the aversion of disaster take the form of setting off fireworks and sometimes having a bonfire, maybe even with an effigy of Guy Fawkes burned in it for good measure, or dodgy ritual as I suspect.

The picture above is a rocket I found in the street outside my flat this morning on my way to church.