Posts for Friday, 9 May 2008

The bubble has burst, now that Louisiana Kevin has withdrawn for the time being; here are the top individual reads on New Lines from a Floating Life for the past three days:

Salam Cafe on SBS Wednesdays at 10 pm 15
More on Salam Cafe 11
On dividing the rainbow 9

But if you look at the best ever individual reads now you will see it has had an impact:

Rampant: How a City Stopped a Plague 478
On dividing the rainbow 283
Christmas poem #1 — Louis Macneice, 259
Christmas poem #2: Alfred, Lord Tennyson 233
Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam documentary on ABC 184

Today see Australian poem 2008 series #13 — Roland Robinson (1912-1992). That in turn led to Shire childhood, adolescence and early adulthood 1 on Ninglun’s Specials.

Posts for Thursday, 8 May 2008

Ninglun’s Specials today offers Closely watched planes 5 — Tiger Moth.

On New Lines from a Floating Life there are two: Burma 2 and More on Salam Cafe. And then three: Weird and wonderful — two unrelated items.

Yesterday was a new “best day ever” at 292 reads of New Lines. Here are the top three there in the past seven days:

On dividing the rainbow 274

Last night on ABC: “East of Everything” 35

Salam Cafe on SBS Wednesdays at 10 pm 32

Akismet ate Kevin from Louisiana’s last comments; I have written to tell him what happened as he feared he had been barred. Not yet, Kevin.

Posts for Wednesday, 7 May 2008

On New Lines from a Floating Life I begin with a peeve, and go on to celebrate a great bit of TV: Good morning, Windows XP users and There’s this guy who goes looking for chooks…

THAT post has now scored 236 views and the comment thread, some it becoming increasingly inane I’m afraid, was at 82 when I finally told one participant to go away, though I express it a little more forcefully than that. Nonetheless, yesterday was the best ever for New Lines with 275 views.

Later I made a find on WordPress that serves as a good counterpoint to all that: Meet a blog: Egalitaria.

And yes, I have returned to the style of the rest of the suite, Ninglun’s Specials excepted…

Posts for Tuesday, 6 May 2008

All three active blogs get a go today.

On English/ESL I was inspired by last night’s Media Watch on ABC1: Future journalism? The paper or the blog? The other blogs go local. New Lines from a Floating Life: May South Sydney Herald out today; Ninglun’s Specials: Surry Hills 6 — found images.

On dividing the rainbow has now had 150 individual views*. I hope people have taken the trouble to read the post, as the comments have veered off into the unwinnable and unbelievable, a conflict of entrenched views perhaps… It happens…

I see someone in the NSW Premier’s Department has been consoling him/herself with Friday Australian poem #4: Judith Wright from Old Lines from a Floating Life. I can understand a stress break or two over there at the moment!

* Make that 200 (not counting my own visits) by 7.30 pm, with a comment thread now on 65+!

Given the nature of that thread, I added Always sobering but also exciting… to New Lines this afternoon. Later, Burma marks this terrible natural disaster without further comment from me.

Posts for Monday, 5 May 2008

Over on New Lines for a Floating Life the discussion following On dividing the rainbow went on and on… However, there is a certain grisly fascination about it all. It did help push the total views in the past 24 hours to over 200… The new post is about two recently watched DVDs: For every history there are alternative histories…. It seemed appropriate after that gargantuan comment thread continued to plug Salam Cafe on SBS Wednesdays at 10 pm.

Posts for Sunday, 4 May 2008

At the moment Kevin from Louisiana and Arthur are slugging it out over on New Lines from a Floating Life at On dividing the rainbow. Very interesting comment on Overdue catchup for Aussie gays and lesbians by NSW National Party MLC Trevor Khan too. I have gone down another track completely: More Tartan Noir: Frank Muir “Eye for an Eye” (2007). After Sunday lunch: Sunday with Sirdan: Chinese Whisper/Brett Whiteley/The Oxford.

On Ninglun’s Specials a recent post by Jim Belshaw prompted Closely watched planes 4 — “Faithful Annie”.