JK Rowling Killed My Blog, Firefox Killed My Adblocker and Welsh Blog Awards
First of all, the Welsh Blog Awards I talked about on Saturday that were due to end on Sunday now end next Friday. I think because some categories are struggling under the sheer brilliance that is my blog. Keep voting for me, and I will not spoil the end of Harry Potter 8. Yes, there is an eighth book, the last word is “bangable” (thanks to my namesake for nominating me!).
Speaking on Harry Potter: it’s official, After spending the weekend getting stats, I can confirm you lot are addicted to Harry Potter, and forsaked this blog to instead read JK Rowling’s latest offering. You were probably aware about it, you selfish bastards. As me whinging probably won’t convey the statistical raping this blog took over the weekend, allow me to present it in graph form.
It’s a lot. It usually drops down to around to 350 at weekends, but this weekend was much lower (Sunday was around 250, Monday was 600). Did anybody else in bloggerdom have their stats Avada Kedavra’d by Harry Potter? I know Jem’s were, anybody else?
Secondly, does anybody have the Adblock extension for Firefox? Reason I ask is that it hasn’t been blocking ads on sites like it should. Yes I know I’m screaming hypocracy, by having adverts on my site yet blocking ads on others. There’s a good reason for this: a lot of footballing news sites have pop up and pop under ads. I have nothing against a few adsense blocks here and there, but the pop up and unders do my head in.
Finally, something freaked me out in Morrisons whilst listening to the cheeky Scottish minx Edith Bowman (who I maintain is filthy. Ryan, as the bastion of all that’s filth, do you agree?). Basically, I managed to get an MP3 version of the clip in particular. To those of you who weren’t in “Barry Scott and the Cillit Bangers” Hope & Anchor Pub Quiz Champions 2005, here’s two facts to bring you up to speed.
- I never text/email/telephone radio shows, ever.
- Hope & Anchor Sunday Night Pub Quiz (with Spud) featured a hexagonal Blockbusters Style board, and a round where you had to get the prices of groceries, which was called the Supermarket Sweep round.
Right, ready? Listen to this.
Han thinks I’m making a big deal out of it, but it almost made me drop my plums in the supermarket. So am I being silly, or is it an odd coincidence worthy of notification?
Comments: 9 Comments
Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
#1 – I’m totally behind the Harry Potter thing… I haven’t read any of the books since the fourth. I’m into The Bourne series (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremecy, and currently reading The Bourne Ultimatum).
#2 – You had me totally confused when I followed your namesake’s link and was reading the blog of Rhys Wynne… but wait… ANOTHER Rhys Wynne… then I realised that it’s probably not actually that bizarre, I’m just retarded.
The Adblock extension is still working perfectly in Firefox. I still don’t know what I’m missing
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I still visited your site! I had to have a few internet breaks while reading potter!
Mine went from 120 to 50!
I think you’re making way too bigger deal about Harry Potter (as is the rest of the world. For all you 22 (ish) year olds out there like me and Rhys – why are you still reading kiddies books? When the first one came out, we were all too old for it. We havn’t reversed in age). Anyway, do you not think that another reason your blog may have had reduced views is that 350,000 people just in Gloucestershire had no power or water, and practically half the UK were in some way linked to the flooding
@Sibz I grew up with hp – if she hadn’t delayed the last 2 books it would have been one a year as I went through secondary school!
So I have an excuse
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What Sibley said.
Grow up.
Now I must return to save princesses on Paper Mario
My stats did exactly the same thing. I just figured that my posts sucked.
Stats down Fri to Sat night here, too. Bloody Rowling
I didn’t notice a lot of change in my blog. In any case, there was a pirated version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on The Pirate Bay where someone took pictures of it and put it up, so people don’t have to buy it. I think there’s a typed version going around too.