I’ve been looking at my blog stats recently to get an idea about what people read the most when they arrive here. The most read articles are around property auctions, photography rights in the UK, how to earn money and Northern Rock equity release. Now whilst these may not be the most riveting articles on this blog, they are the most visited.

Firstly a week in, Happy New Year guys, hope your holiday season was enjoyable and indulgent. I had a great time, spent a month down in sunny Jamaica, not really doing anything much more than enjoying the sunshine and the tranquility. Back in London, the snow has most of us on lockdown, cold and wishing we didn’t have to tackle the transport system, black ice and chilling winds just to get to and from work. 2010 is set to be an interesting year for all of us. In the UK we have to have a general election by the end…

Over the past few months this blog has grown in visitors and readers and the amount of money generated. Even though it’s not a niche blog, I have managed to benefit from some very sound advice offered by other bloggers. I would like to share these resources with you so that if you are also a blogger who want’s to expand the reach of your blog and attract more visitors you may also benefit from these writers good advice. Adsense Basics from BloggerUnleased The Make Money Online Niche from Make Money Online for Beginners Search Engine Optimization for Blogs from…

I’ve not been updating the site for a while because I have been caught up in lots of stuff in the offline world. Moving house, turning forty, blah blah blah, all meant I didn’t have a lot of time for Rambling procrastination. I am aiming to change that soon though and get back to both rambling and procrastinating large about many a different happenings that are going on in London, the UK and in our global village.

I was in the process of writing a post about BloggingZoom, the ‘Digg’ for bloggers when I got wind from Internet Marketing champion Courtney Tuttle that the site has been hacked. Courtney is one of the founder/owners of BloggingZoom alongside Vic of BloggerUnleashed who’s site coincidentally is also down. BloggingZoom is a fast growing site for bloggers who want to promote and publicize their sites. The team there positively encourage bloggers to submit their own content and the BloggingZoom community support this in a big way. Let’s hope the site get’s back up soon.

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I have just realised that my blog is 2 years old and like a very errant parent, I forgot it’s birthday. Doh! The first post is dated 3rd Nov 2005 and is here. I remember, now that I have glanced at that post, the blog started as a way of keep a daily journal of my thoughts and research for my studies. What’s happened since then ? Well I have posted a total of 93 posts in 25 categories over the period. In the last year I have had 1,817 visitors come to my blog and read my words. Now…