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When asked to write a guest blog post for the venerable Mr Jones my initial thought was to write something witty and succinct. However upon realisation that being neither concise nor humorous are my greatest talents the following ramblings seem appropriate.

The majority of those who read this don’t know me and never will, I like that anonymity. There’s something about writing something out for the whole world to see that’s very therapeutic. The thought that someone might read this and find the slightest interest, enlightenment or inspiration from it makes me smile.

I’m going to write about accomplishment, progress, recovery. However you deem to express it for me they all boil down to the same basic principle. That principle to me is (if you’ll excuse my French) getting the f**k on with it. I mean, obviously it’s not that simple, so, let’s give some background here.  Wait for it, here comes the big confession:

My name is Andie, I’m 24 years old, and I’m an alcoholic.

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Get a Free Postcard – Update

June 18, 2009
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Back in March 2009, I blogged how someone in the US was offering to send people free postcards. I’d signed up, but was waiting to see if anything came of it. Turns out, something did.

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Guest Post: Anne Wayman

June 12, 2009
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A guest post from Anne Wayman:
Back when the web was young and I was younger, I tried my hand at web design. It was the days before web editors and when the early web editors arrived they were often more trouble then they were worth.

I discovered my magazine work had given me a pretty good eye for how a web page should look. It was in the early ‘90s that a friend and I formed a partnership to offer web development.

Our venture didn’t last long. It wasn’t lack of customers; it was the difficulty in supporting them. The web was so new that very few really understood what it might do for a business or an individual.

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Thesis XHTML Sitemap V2

May 5, 2009
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Alternative instructions for how to add an XHTML sitemap into your WordPress Thesis theme. Allows humans and search engine spiders to find all of your content easily.

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Ask me a question

May 1, 2009
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It could be something you wanted to know about me, or a question about how to solve a problem you need help with. Go on, make it as diverse as you can. Randomness is good!

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How do you attract comments?

April 27, 2009
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Discussing ways I try to attract comments for this blog, and asking bloggers what tips and techniques they use to gain comments.

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What time do you schedule posts for?

April 24, 2009
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Discussing if there’s any benefit to setting scheduled posts in WordPress to a publish at a set local time, to attract more readers. Includes graphs of my visitors, and asks readers how they decide on their publishing times.

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How often do you publish?

April 21, 2009
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In trying to keep content fresh, without overloading any readers, I aim for every 2 or 3 days. I’ve read “good practise” articles elsewhere though that suggest you must publish at least one thing every day, while other say even once a week is fine for niche market blogs.

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Basingstoke Tweetup Article in the Basingstoke Gazette

April 16, 2009
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An image and the text content of a newspaper article in the Basingstoke Gazette, about our first Basingstoke Tweetup.

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