New feature – email subscriptions!

WordPress.com has just released a new feature which will allow you receive email notifications of my new blog posts.   Just click on the button in my sidebar over there on the right. This may be of interest for those of you who do not use a feed reader to keep up with the blogs you read (although if you do read a few blogs and you aren’t using a reader, I suggest you check out Google Reader pronto!).

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Trying again

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I wasn’t sure whether to bother but the lure of NaBloPoMo was too great.  I tried this in September and failed spectacularly.  November was always the original month for this event, before it went to a monthly gig.  The basic idea: post every day for a month.  I signed up yesterday and considered posting without any NaBloPoMo fanfare but then I wanted to put on the pressure!

I know a lot of people are doing NaNoWriMo which is the parent to the blogging version.  I considered this for about a second and then decided that is utter madness. At least while I have my OU course to do.  Maybe one day…

Musings

Have you noticed things get a little less personal over here lately?  I am not sure why this has happened but I think the more I realise people I know In Real Life read my blog, the more shy I get about talking about myself.  It’s easy to bare my soul to the ether, to the sympathetic bloggers who live miles and miles away.  It’s a bit embarrassing to do so when you have to face the people who read it! That said, I would hate for this place to become just a sanitised place with no heart.  That would be a real shame.  Whilst my five horizons format makes it easy to share my passions, I maybe need to try a little harder to keep my journal for more introspective musings. Not too many.  Just a few musings to show I am still here, feeling and hurting and loving and laughing.