One of my more esoteric efforts on New Lines from a Floating Life today: Uncertain dogma, The Shire, and related musings.

The top ten individually visited posts so far this week have been:

Australian poem: 2008 series #8 — Indigenous 25
Australian poem 2008 series #10: Peter S 22
Salam Cafe on SBS Wednesdays at 10 pm 21
Rampant: How a City Stopped a Plague 14
Annotated Blog Roll 13
More on Salam Cafe 12
And tomorrow is… 11
Christmas poem #2: Alfred, Lord Tennyson 11
Cronulla 05 11
Paradox on paradox — don’t expect solutions 10

On Ninglun’s Specials:

The Bard, a Rabbit, and Ninglun 32
Family stories 3 — About the Whitfields 17
Surry Hills 13
Family stories 1 — My mother in her own words 10
Things noted, even in Cronulla, in 1969 10
7 — a controversy — For the record: the great SBHS race debate of 2002 7
Sutherland — a memorable day trip 5
who’s who [updated April 2008] 5
About 5
Shire childhood, adolescence and early adulthood 1 4

On Old Lines from a Floating Life:

Friday Australian poem #17: Bruce Dawe, 91
Friday Australian poem #3: A D Hope, 84
On the awkwardness (and fatuity?) of discussing religion 69
About 60
Assimilation/Integration/Multiculturalism 53
John Howard: bullying expert extraordinaire 37
3 — Indigenous Australians 34
Friday Australian poem #4: Judith Wright 30
Book and DVD backlog 28
Two Australian poems of World War II 28

On English/ESL:

Studying the Gothic, or Emily Bronte? 202
How should I write up a Science experiment? 166
Physical journeys and Peter Skrzynecki’s poems 95
Literacy 47
From my personal site: The Secret River 37
ESL+ 36
Studying comic strips? Really! 35
Workshop 02 — NSW HSC: Area Study: Imaginative Journeys 34
Links 30
Indirect or reported questions 26
Scaffolding 26

At the moment, according to Sitemeter, the first three blogs combined, plus a few other bits, average 296 visits or 358 page views a day. English/ESL is averaging 217 and 281.

I sometimes wonder why I have this Entry and Index Blog, but the referrer stats from 1-16 May for New Lines seem to suggest it does serve a purpose.

ninglunprologue.wordpress.com 140

fivepublicopinions.wordpress.com 43

ninglunbooks.wordpress.com 26

wordpress.com/blog/2008/04/01/book-deals/ 23

myconfinedspace.com/2008/05/08/this-sign-makes-a-point/ 19

pinkboard.com.au/bloglist/blogs 15

sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm9ninglun 14

ninglun.wordpress.com 11

pinkboard.com.au/bloglist/frame?url=n…/bloglist 11

iainmackinnon.wordpress.com/2007/01/25 10

WordPress Dashboard 10

Oz Poetry again on New Lines from a Floating Life: Australian poem 2008 series #14 — Rosemary Dobson (1920 - ); and a reminder that 17 May has a place on the GLBT calendar: And tomorrow is…

On Ninglun’s Specials “I reviewed my Photobucket collection where bits and pieces mainly from older blogs still live, though some are still attached to living archives. I decided to revive a few of these old pics here today.”

I mentioned a couple of days ago on this blog some of what I was then thinking about. Today I deliver on some of it in Paradox on paradox — don’t expect solutions here either on New Lines from a Floating Life. The issues: Israel at 60, and the Einstein letter.

BlogExplosion: a frank account of their problems appears in their forum here. I had already deleted my neil43 profile by the time I read that, but encouraged by it I have submitted a new profile as ninglun. We shall see. I hope it works out, as BE was good and potentially may still be so.

A comment that has cheered me up no end appeared just now on English/ESL on My English teachers 3:

Antony Marsh Says:
May 15, 2008 at 10:55 am

Thanks for the kind words about Derick Marsh, former Professor of English at LaTrobe University and also my father. I am pleased to say that Derick celebrated his 80th birthday on March 26th this year and his good friend and colleague Professor John Salmond found this blog and read it at the celebration - it was most warmly appreciated by Derick and his friends and family.

That post was originally on my Blogspot blog, and is also collected in a page on Ninglun’s Specials, where there is now a new post: Things noted, even in Cronulla, in 1969. I also added a Google Earth image of my childhood home in Auburn Street to Sutherland — a memorable day trip.

On New Lines So that was Brendan I saw coming out of the Surry Hills Actors Centre then… is not an attempt to start a rumour, but rather a comment on Brendan Nelson’s sterling performance tonight.

I follow up one of the items I mentioned yesterday on New Lines from a Floating LIfe: The Lion of Zimbabwe.

Back to The Shire on Ninglun’s Specials: Shire childhood, adolescence and early adulthood 4: Cronulla 1961-1962, 1964-1969.

On Ninglun’s Specials: Towns I’ve stayed in 4 — Trundle NSW. Where? Yes, on the Bogan Way… And on New Lines from a Floating Life I take up some English Studies matters on Recycling old arguments… I give The Budget a token serve too.

Thanks to Jim Belshaw for his very complimentary remarks about my blogs on Welcome Neil (Ninglun) - visitor 30,000.

NEXT DAY

I find too, according to his Sitemeter, that I was Visitor #24,000 to Thomas’s blog(s).