Well I’ve taken heed of the “your WordPress is out of date” warnings and upgraded to the latest version. I’ve also upgraded to a more recent version of the K2 theme I use as the site template. Please bear with me if if some of the sidebar items move about or vanish - normal service will be resumed shortly.
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I’ve done a bit of a review of my blogroll. For those of you new to weblogs, that’s the list of links in the left-hand column of this website. I’ve culled some of the blogs that are either defunct or have not been updated.
If you have a suggestion for a site that you think should be added to my list of links, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment on this post.
Thanks as always to everyone who has a blogroll link to my blog on their website. If I’ve linked to you a reciprocal link would be greatly appreciated!
Apologies for the lack of updates - I’ve been down in London for the weekend and only got back late on Sunday evening.
Normal service to be resumed later today!
After a bit of a sabbatical - initially caused by the same hosting problems that pole-axed this blog for a while - I have now restarted the Walkden Conservatives website.
You’ll notice it has a familiar look; I’ve opted once again for the ease-of-use of WordPress over Joomla, which was the Content Management System I used for the old Walkden Conservatives site.
Obviously the content will build up over time, but if you have any comments or suggestions about the site - or indeed this blog and the Salford Conservatives site - please do let me know!
Later today I’m off to Edinburgh for a few days.
It’ll be a lot of fun but things might be quiet on the blogging front until I get back.
Hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas!
I wish all the readers of this website, local residents in Walkden and across Salford - and indeed everyone else for that matter - a very Merry Christmas. I hope you all have a very enjoyable day.
I will try to keep this blog updated over the festive period but blogging may well be light until after New Year.
This is my usual monthly round-up of where site visitors are coming from - of course it is worth noting that the majority of visitors come straight to this blog rather than “clicking through” somewhere else. Many thanks again to all the readers of this site and to everyone who has kindly linked to me.
Here are this month’s top ten referrers:
1. Google Search (-)
2. Live Search (+3)
3. Iain Dale’s Diary (re-entry)
4. ConservativeHome (-2)
5. Chris Paul (re-entry)
6. Vote UK Discussion Forum (-2)
7. Salford Conservatives (+3)
8. Yahoo Search (-2)
9. AOL Search (re-entry)
10. Facebook (-3)
Some significant changes this month, and PoliticalBetting, MyBlogLog and Tim Roll-Pickering have all lost their places in the top ten.
I am heading back to my old University stomping ground of York for the coming weekend to attend the University of York Conservative Association’s annual dinner - I am loathe to call an event on the 24th November “Christmas Dinner” even if it is technically the last Saturday in November.
It is always a great event and a chance to meet up with old friends and new members alike, but it does mean of course that as far as this website goes blogging will be light. Have a good weekend!
I’d like to do a bit of video-blogging, but my technical knowledge doesn’t extend to digital video cameras. If anyone can advise me on purchasing an inexpensive but suitable video camera for this purpose I would be very grateful! What do you think?
Please find below the top ten referring sites for this blog for October. A big thank-you to everyone who links to this website - it is greatly appreciated.
1. Google Search (+1)
2. ConservativeHome (-1)
3. PoliticalBetting (+1)
4. Vote 2007 Discussion Forum (-1)
5. Live Search (NEW)
6. Yahoo Search UK (+3)
7. Facebook (-1)
8. MyBlogLog (+2)
9. Tim Roll-Pickering (-)
10. City of Salford Conservatives (-2)
Of last month’s top ten, only Chris Paul has failed to make the cut.
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