Rocketing down the rankings

Mindlessly perusing my blog's stats this evening, I came across the Wikio Sources website, which apparently has been analysing this, and a multitude of other blogs for the past few years.

http://www.wikio.co.uk/sources/see-that-tattie-run.blogspot.com-pXBF

It was somewhat disheartening to discover that I have plummeted from the heady heights of 6,545 in the "General" category rankings in October ...

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Cheeky Russians

I've had a compliment of sorts for one of the photos I took whilst in Kazakhstan last summer - Russian website turj.ru has robbed my copyrighted image from Flickr and claimed it as its own here:

http://turj.ru/blog/history/1730.html

My original photo is on Flickr, here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tattie_chomper/4924300871/

They're the same feckin photo! Right down to the location of the crane in the top right, and the people walking along the pavement in the bottom left. 

Anyone know how to rant about intellectual property in Russian?

Never so happy to be buzzed at 7am...

I was shocked out of an abnormally deep sleep at 7am this morning (well, 7.03 to be exact), by the flat buzzer going off... Momentarily confused by the fact I had slept through my alarm, which was blaring in the corner, and the lack of girlfriend next to me, who I'd not even noticed getting up, my mind cleared sufficiently to establish what was going on.

A whoop of delight from the front door a ...

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Back on the jogging trail

I returned to exercising ways for the first time in nearly a year yesterday, having taken a sabbatical following the Reading Half Marathon last March and, well, forgotten to start again.

Following that race, there was so much else to focus on with regard to the Charity Rally that I was happy to put my gutties back in the cupboard until further notice.

As with everything in life, however, I found ...

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Just call me Tattie Z

Ahh, fohgeddaboudit....

This is an exact representation of me in a couple of months - after 6 years of sort-of-planning to, and 30 years of dreaming about it, I have finally booked tickets to the City That Never Sleeps.

What is it about New York that unlocks all these feelings of excitement inside me? Years of being bombarded with tv, films, music and fashion from the coolest city on earth. I am ...

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Spam-tastic

The blog has been getting bombarded with spam of late, occasionally in Chinese, sometimes in Cyrillic, but always, always, laden with links enticing readers to pass over details of their worldly possessions.

The Blogger spam filter usually does an excellent job of quarantining them before they get a chance to appear on the relevant post (I only see them via an email link), but today, ...

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Sofia, so good.

I went, I saw, I survived. And that, my friends, counts as a result. The fact I managed to have a bloody nice time into the bargain just adds to the experience.

Yes, for the second time in my life, I joined that rite of passage as a man-child becomes a, err, committed man-child and flew to Sofia for my mate Al's stag do. Have to admit I quite looked forward to Bulgaria; it's not the kind of ...

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