A Year Of Blogging
On Saturday it’ll be a year since i signed up to Myspace. I did it because my sister, Lucy, hassled me to. Before that, i’d looked at it once or twice and it didn’t look very interesting – i found out afterwards that there was something wrong with the way my web browser displayed it, and once i’d sorted that out it looked much better! Of course, there’s been plenty of myspace weirdnesses like that in the last year.
When i signed up i was living in Kabul, Afghanistan, and it was a good way to keep in touch with my family in England and friends in Australia. Eventually, i found various old friends on it and it got better and better for keeping in touch with all sorts of people from all round the world.
I posted my first blog post just a few days later – on the 15th of October. It was the story of my first trip out of Kabul, and i’d written it a little while before – in a diary i was keeping at the time. That diary gradually faded out, as i started to write about things that happened in my myspace blog instead.
And now, a year and several countries later, i’m writing my 124th blog post – and one of the last i’ll write in Maningrida. I’ve had 4746 blog views and 452 comments. So far, i’ve written over sixty thousand words in these blog posts – about two-thirds of a standard length novel!
But there’s been a lot more to myspace than just writing a blog. Reading other people’s blogs has become an important part of my life over the last year. Notable blogs have been those by Lucy, my nephew James, Ingrid (Dead Poet), Jordana, and – most prolifically – Jow (Lucy Blue / ~DarkStar~). On that last one, i must admit that when she didn’t blog for a couple of days recently, i felt like something major was missing from my life! (Hmmm… A bit of a worry, that, ey? 
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And, perhaps more important than reading those blogs, the ease of keeping in touch with people all over the world on a day to day basis has made a very big difference to my life over the last year. Specially as i seem to have spent most of that year in some kind of weird, self-imposed exile, a long way away from anyone i know! 
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