The View from Down Here

The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair

Tag: blogging

6WS

I was looking through my NetNewsWire collection of blogs and came accross this concept on C Beth’s blog. Six word Saturday.  Described more fully here, its basically to describe your life in that moment or a thing in your life in a phrase containing 6 words. During this disciplined blogging exercise I thought I’d try [...]

Blogging with Discipline

I like this idea.

I can relate to what Beth talks about. I have tended to be one of these writers;
There are times when my mind is filled with more blog posts than there are days in the week, when everything in my life can be easily put into a witty and/or meaningful bit of writing.
I [...]

In the Carnival again

Whilst assessing my statistics the other day, I noticed that after nominating myself one month to the Down Under Feminist Carnival I find I have once again been nominated for this.  I’m thrilled. Thanks Mynxii. 

I’m back

with no thanks to iinet I am back in the land of the blogging. Been an interesting few weeks and will right write more of it when my broadband box arrives.
Thanks all for your patience

Amazan’s Black Friday Sale.

Ok so this is a shameless plug. I am an Amazon Associate as demonstrated by the search bar to the right of this page. If you plan to buy products from Amazon.com (and yes they deliver most things to Australia), if you could come here first and start your shopping experience by searching here [...]

a big blue line going up

It started with early morning garbage collection this time without swearing or very loud male gossip. From bed with the laptop on the floor I checked my BlogTracker stats. I got a huge pleasant surprise: my stats and hits had gone up quite markably. This as a result of FWD/Forward picking up this post on [...]

100 posts.

In September 2005, while traveling I started this blog. That was a long time ago in both time and headspace.
I have had many hiatuses from this medium, hence the four years to get here. I have had a variety of topics, many self serving muses. But I’m still here and I enjoy it.
The choice of [...]

so, so yesterday

In a vague half hearted attempt to find blog statistic tracking tools for this blog I found this. It’s a discussion of the trends around blogging; whose doing it, whose reading them, how often people update and burn out rates. Its an interesting read which traces the rise and it believes fall of the phenomena. [...]