Forgive me if this post soothes my ego. This last week saw me achieve two massive milestones for my blog.
The first one is that I broke 300 Blogs Linking To Me On Technorati. How fabulous is that? More people link to my blog now than go to watch Colwyn Bay FC play football in Feburary. Marvellous. Also, to celebrate, Technorati rightfully listed me as the best blog in the history of the world, ever.
And do you know what really made me happy about that? The 300th blog was a review! Monkeyboy reviewed me on Saturday, and was the 300th Blog to link to me. Also, he was the first blog to submit a review for Fair Review, but wasn’t the last this weekend. If you’d like to get more readers for your blog, why not take part in Fair Review?
The other, and more important thing is this from my feedburner stats:
On Thursday, I finally broke the 100 subscribers to my RSS Feed. It had taken me 5 or so years (of which I’ve only been trying for 2 or so) to do so, but I’ve finally done it. I guess the thing that really pushed it was the fact there’s a big huge orange button in the header (the same with E-mail subscriptions and technorati favourited), so if you want to break the magic 100, my tip would be to use an ace button, and stick it right in the centre of the header.
Anyway, wonderous joy of joys aside, I have had a fairly dull weekend with few highlights. One lowlight was a weigh in, and I have put on half a stone in weight.
Shit.
This has got me thinking: I really want to join a sports club. Not just for the being active side of things but also for the social side of things. I was never very good at football, but wouldn’t mind taking up an indoor sport (was half decent at basketball in my day). Unfortunately, I don’t know where to look. If anybody has any ideas, bonus points if you live in North Wales and know where to look, please please let me know in the comments. Thank you.
Comments: 22 Comments
Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
Congrats on the 300 links and being number 1!!! WOOHOOOOOOO!
How many kgs or lbs is a stone?
I just bought a bike so I can ride and met my chubby arse moving!!! Oh and some light weights as well. I detest exercise so I hope I can get into a routine.
Always found it easier to just pop down to the local sports centre – normally have boards up with clubs and alike and a list of classes you can do!
Congrats on ur milestone… all that shameless whoring finally paid off eh… now make it 500 links
Congratulations on your mile-stone… or should that be kilometre-kilogram? I am right behind you in Technorati ranked #2… well, me or BoingBoing, I forget which.
Well done!! Very exciting indeed
Im sure there are heaps of places around you could join to do an indoor sports.
(I must have lost points for not living in North Wales and really having no idea at all!!) Does it count that I know more than one person who lives there….? Not bad for someone all way upside down! Hey I could ask for you
Guy’s got the right idea, Just get down to the leisure center in Colwyn Bay, they have notice boards up with clubs or sessions that are on.
There’s even a receptionist who is always happy to help and I’m always happy to help her be happy to help me…. which i think is more motivation to get going there.
Congrats on the rankings, that is very impressive. I don’t look at mine because I think I fall somewhere in the bottom of the Internet.
Badminton or squash are quite good indoor sports, especially squash as it is completely knackering.
I really should learn about technorati!
Was gonna suggest leisure center too! Do yoga you know you want too!
Debbie: I’m not doing squash, people hit the ball at me instead :S
Han: Unless you could promise me similar powers to Dhalsim from Street Fighter 2, I’m not doing yoga!
Janice: About 4kilos in half a stone.
“How fabulous is that?” – How camp is that… sorry for the double comment, some weird code thing happened
Also typed my web address in wrong… wow… what is wrong with me
Han – you are not American. Spell centre properly!
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Congratulations dude!! Good to hear that your love for blogging is so appreciated.
Oi I’m in need of another big guy for my mixed social basketball team. If you’re interested… although the transport costs may be a slight issue, maybe some more Google ads might subsidise the cost.
Why not get our Tuesday football going again??
Congratulations on the milestones. They are pretty bloody massive! 100 feed readers? bah, I had four which dropped to three!
Rhys, you really should play squash – I know you say people hit the ball at you… just hit the fucker back at them twice as hard. Trust me, do it enough times and they get the message
Congrats on your subscribers! Nice to have that number one ranking as well, I’ll bet.
I don’t know how many subscribers I have. I’m going to have to cave and get a WP expert to fix it.
In a moment of… well thought… why not try running your own 5-a-side leage!? or just a one off event. Im sure theres loads of people who’d be up for entering teams plus you can get the local sports centre to give you it for cheap… plaster gospelrhys.co.uk as the sponsor and improve your stats
failing that… squash is actually bloody good fun! i took great pleasure in giving Z-man a lesson or two at uni
Dude, that was just a Technorati mishap. They screwed up their code and all blogs were ranking no.1
Its time to come out from the DREAM. Check your rating now. When i saw my blog was no.1, i couldn’t believe that either but I know what i can rank for and what i am not gonna
Anyways i hope you become no.1 one day but that technorati stuff was good linkbait for you. lol
Wow. Lots of achievements in this post! Oh, and good luck with the sports angle. You should just show up on the fields for pickup games and try and get in the mix. (Unless you are horribly bad at the sport…If you try it in this case, you may end up getting banned by your neighbors)
Oh. That’s what that means. I had no idea what authority meant. LOL. Anyway I rated you on blogrator but realized I wasn’t logged in. Great job!
Wow, man, congratulations. That is quite an accomplishment. I will get to that blog review thing sometime this week.
I would believe in Feedburner more if it weren’t for the fact that some days EVERYONE apparently unsubscribes. Unless they really do, and it’s a big organised thing and you all have parties for it and everything and don’t invite me… Where’s that paranoia Facebook app again…?!