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The Poetry Wiki, back by popular demand

Or, to be more accurate, back in the face of overwhelming public apathy except from Julie.

Since I’ve got the spare bandwidth and everything, I’ve started a new wiki to replace The Poetry Wiki. I’ve called it ‘The Poetry Wiki‘. Original, I know. It just makes more sense to have everything in the same place.

I’ve used the Mediawiki software – i.e. the same used for Wikipedia – both because I know lots of people are somewhat familiar with it, and because Wikipedia has a lot of helpful stuff about how to use the software. You could start with the Wikipedia Help Page, for example.

At the moment it’s a blank canvas, so get in at the beginning. Have a go. Tell your friends. Jump in and make suggestions about how the site should work. Try out the editing syntax. Post some poetry.

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Search queries for December

The overwhelmingly popular search-term leading to this blog this month has been ‘darren gough’, variations of which accounted for about 20-25% of people who got here via a search engine.

Some other hits:

ideas for a narrative prose
hair on fire picture
foxy stuff
poems about doritos
is strictly come dancing racist
branding cow silhouette
quotes . the female of the species is more deadly than the mail
new teen porny 2005
long poetry entries
poems of sincerity

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Drugs, hypocrisy and baby milk

Most of the people I’ve known over the years who were keen to boycott products from Nestlé (evil baby milk) or South Africa (apartheid, at the time) or Nike (sweatshops) took drugs.

I don’t think it’s any better to give money to organised crime than to give it to Nike. Which is one reason I don’t take drugs.

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Christmas

A lot of you will have already seen this, but anyway:

Happy Christmas!

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Deodorant

I just bought some deodorant, and on the pack it says ‘Fresh Male Fragrance’. A fresh male fragrance is exactly what I was trying to avoid.

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Happy Birthday to me

I’ve got an iPod shuffle. It weighs 22g; about as much as a reasonably fat nightingale.