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And strange it is / That nature must compel us to lament / Our most persisted deeds.”
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Famous Last Words

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I should finish up the press check I’m on tomorrow and have Thursday free, or maybe I’ll just proof the cover on Thursday morning. God, I hope so. I’m about to go mad trapped in this industrial park just, frustratingly, outside the lovely city of Bruges.

But those aren’t the “famous last words” I meant by the post title. I was referring to my web page of that name, which made StumpleUpon’s “buzz” page, bringing a bunch of visitors. So this is a place where people can leave suggestions for more “deathbed bon mots and strangled prose,” or make comments à son gout.

Lately 75 percent of my non-search engine traffic has been coming from StumbleUpon. I’m not sure what to make of that, other than to say thanks to the stumblers who have bookmarked my pages.

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Posted: December 19th, 2006 under blogging, community, webwork.
Comments: 5

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Comment from annexensen
Time: December 19, 2006, 11:55 am

I hope you can get out and trek about Bruge. From your photos it looks really gorgeous there. I will check out StumbleUpon-looks like a great site.

Comment from Lori
Time: January 7, 2007, 1:12 pm

thanks! these were great! i just stumbled upon : ) your site, while looked for more info to validate who spenta productions is & their making of the “Cyrus the Great.” it sounds wonderful & wondered if i could find another source who knew about them more and could vouch for their sincerity. loved the clip & am contributing, so quick stop me if i shouldn’t .
: ) lori

Pingback from blog.rightreading.com » More about StumbleUpon — a plea for friends
Time: January 9, 2007, 7:43 pm

[...] Earlier I mentioned that I was getting a lot of incoming traffic from StumbleUpon (about 1500 visits each of the past few weeks, to be numeric). So I’ve been doing a bit of stumbling myself, and I like the diversity of topics and sites that are represented (compared, for example, to something like digg, which has an exceedingly narrow focus and is ruled with an iron first by a ruthless cabal of YTMs (young tech males). As a next step I’d like to add a few stumbling friends and see how that goes. Any takers? I’m called xensen. [...]

Comment from gregory
Time: January 10, 2007, 6:00 am

Salaam

“I’ve had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that’s the record.”
— Dylan Thomas, poet, 1914-1953

This is actually just a humorous rumor. These are not his last words.

Comment from xensen
Time: January 10, 2007, 10:51 pm

Thanks, Gregory. I don’t have time to check it out right now but later on I’ll check some DT bios and qualify the statement

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