I am at sixes and sevens to day having slept for over eight hours and then wasted a couple of hours playing chess against the computer while listening and sometimes watching the evidence of Tom Watson to Leveson Inquiry. There is blue sky outside and it feels warmer. Over the luncheon hour I went out into the back and onto the patio area and it is indeed warm in amazing to contrast to the weather since March now a distance memory which I failed to make good use of. I fear I am repeating that position again
I should be taking exercise although having just weighed the celebrations of the past three days on winning £200 on a free bet with Chelsea’s win in European Championships have so far had no adverse effect and I am ready to begin the effort required to get under sixteen and a half stone. I have already invested the £200 by securing tickets and accommodation for the final weekend of the paralympics games. I believe a record of this experience is of value to me for future reference and may be of interest to others.
Having registered an obtain ticket albeit for Football I could not apply for tickets in the subsequent first come first served opportunities. This morning I was able to seek tickets by going to those the programme of events and creating wish list. Having selected four events I then applied and to wait for availability. Two of the four requests were met. The morning swimming from 9.30 to 12.30 on the final Saturday and seats for the Marathon ending in the Mall on the Sunday morning. Both events with tickets cost £5. I then tried again to get tickets for the evening Athletics and the closing ceremony willing to pay the fill price to the maximum £45 without success.
I had previously checked that there was reasonably priced Travel accommodation but when I went to the site having had my bookings confirmed by email I discovered difficult it getting to the availability beds for the period or the special page on Internet site. I therefore went to the standard price pages and was rewarded not on to getting information for the weekend boy found there were saver rates at fewer than fifty percent of the standard price. I booked up for the Friday and Saturday leaving open a decision for the Sunday until late today,
I write always for me own benefit and interest and as a part of the 101 Artman project not anticipating that anyone else will read what I have to say. In fact the absence of recorded comment has suggested that at times no one is reading the pieces. This was reinforced with MySpace publications which until recently was the only means of establishing readership and the number has always been under ten and recently five or fewer. The position has now dramatically changed with the new framework used by Google Blogger where in addition to the main publication I publish piece under individual subjects.
For the main Blog there have been 21930 page views to date an average of 17 per published Blog but with dramatic variations which I am now in a position to record in detail. For each of 100 Blogs listed I included the three with the highest number of views
1-100
475 2258 Birthday weekend
204 2240 Russian salad and Gorky Park
87 2284 Third week of May begins
2-100
194 2156 A long weekend of riots in August178 2165 Boardwalk Empire and Roma crime
118 2187 Leveson Inquiry report 3
3-100
678 2030 Vietnam War, Treme, Boardwalk
Empire
173 2086 Five Opera Singers
101 2018 Egypt Latest
4-100
117 1641 Christianity background
94 1622 Gay Rights
85 1986 Prince Waleed bin Tatal and the Savoy
5-100
657 1572 Personal Experiences and Dr Pinney
259 1579 The Role of a Member of Parliament
99 1575 State Opening of Parliament and Damien Green
6-100
225 1475 Closing Ceremony Olympic Games
73 1513 The Conservative approach
64 1504 I predict outcome of General Election
7-100
215 1911 Foyles War and the Odessa Scandal
145 1897 Chocolate Heaven and Hell
99 1414 Elizabeth 1
8-100
111 1860 Haitian Earthquake
37 1859 Chilcot Inquiry
29 1870 Life through places visited
9-100
23 1810 The Itch, the Fixer
14 1301 A Good Woman Prospero’s Books
14 1843 Spooks Babylon 5
10-100
140 1282 The Greatest Raid of them all
30 1251 Big Brother Angelina Jolie
181271 The Good Citizen, Eric Clapton
11-100
19 1257 2008 Message
13 1701 Rufino Nicaacci Gino Barteli
10 1725 Angels and Demons in and out of
Parliament
12-100
20 1687 Robots, Dr No
14 1166 Theatre Royal Newcastle
12 1176 Howl Manchurian Candidate
13-100
20 1090 TV Watching while in Scotland
16 1095 People of Significance
11 1119 George and Diana Melly
14-100
524 1642 Political Scandals of the past
18 1014 Bergman’s Summer with Monika
16 1018 Bergman’s Through Glass Darkly
There is no immediate explanation for the results given that many have no readers or only 1. I mention that I have published sub pieces under separate Google Blog headings. The second Blog is that of Artman Films with 16561 views with an average of 25 views per item. Here there has been more of a division between the first 300 pieces and the latter 350 and with only 10 items having over 100 readers with the Greatest Raid of them All 453, 323 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 218 Sweetwater, 215 Gorky Park, 154 The best exotic Marigold Hotel, 136 Crazy Heart, 146 Oscar Triumphs, 126 Romanzo Criminale, and 120 Scenes of a sexual nature.
I have published a number of other category or individual subject pieces with again some unexpected results with the Greatest Raid of them All 453 views
2 pieces on the Swinging Sixties attracting an average of 271 views,
3 pieces on Ancient History registering an average of 110, the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry 3 average 92,
Fellini 6 average 80,
Sunderland 6 average 65.
South Tyneside 33 average 56,
the TV series 4400 11 average 51,
The Durham Cricket Club 2 average 43,
Television 170 average 41,
Princess Diana Inquest 10 average 41
In our Time 2 average 36,
Music 35 average 34,
European Travels 3 average 32,
Clumber Park 1 -30 views
Radio 3 average 26,
Sport 118 average 25,
Opera 20 average 25,
Speculations 15 average 25,
Brave New order 1 with 23
Scifi 19 average 22,
Travels in the UK 83 average 21,
Young Queen Victoria 1 with 20
Contemporary art project 35 average 18,
Literature 37 average 16,
The Theatre 20 average 14,
Novel 2 average 12,
La Strada 1 with 11
Northern Rivera 17 average 10
Lypsinch 1 with 10
Chronicles 140 average 6
Almodovar 6 average 5,
For the rest of the day I viewed the evidence of Lord Smith the former Culture Secretary and Alan Johnson, the former Home Secretary. The session finished mid afternoon in time to watch some of the House of Commons consideration of the recommendations of the Culture Committee that action should be taken against the three named individuals to-date who they said had previously lied to them during their phone hacking investigation. Although I had a good nine hours sleep I went to sleep while watching and missed a large chunk of the 90 minute session. The Procedures and Privileges Committee of the House of Commons is to investigate and will recommend to the House whether sanctions such as fines or imprisonment should be introduced in this instance and in general for future reference. The Culture Committee has said it may recommend action against other individuals presently the subject of police inquiries.
I should be taking exercise although having just weighed the celebrations of the past three days on winning £200 on a free bet with Chelsea’s win in European Championships have so far had no adverse effect and I am ready to begin the effort required to get under sixteen and a half stone. I have already invested the £200 by securing tickets and accommodation for the final weekend of the paralympics games. I believe a record of this experience is of value to me for future reference and may be of interest to others.
Having registered an obtain ticket albeit for Football I could not apply for tickets in the subsequent first come first served opportunities. This morning I was able to seek tickets by going to those the programme of events and creating wish list. Having selected four events I then applied and to wait for availability. Two of the four requests were met. The morning swimming from 9.30 to 12.30 on the final Saturday and seats for the Marathon ending in the Mall on the Sunday morning. Both events with tickets cost £5. I then tried again to get tickets for the evening Athletics and the closing ceremony willing to pay the fill price to the maximum £45 without success.
I had previously checked that there was reasonably priced Travel accommodation but when I went to the site having had my bookings confirmed by email I discovered difficult it getting to the availability beds for the period or the special page on Internet site. I therefore went to the standard price pages and was rewarded not on to getting information for the weekend boy found there were saver rates at fewer than fifty percent of the standard price. I booked up for the Friday and Saturday leaving open a decision for the Sunday until late today,
I write always for me own benefit and interest and as a part of the 101 Artman project not anticipating that anyone else will read what I have to say. In fact the absence of recorded comment has suggested that at times no one is reading the pieces. This was reinforced with MySpace publications which until recently was the only means of establishing readership and the number has always been under ten and recently five or fewer. The position has now dramatically changed with the new framework used by Google Blogger where in addition to the main publication I publish piece under individual subjects.
For the main Blog there have been 21930 page views to date an average of 17 per published Blog but with dramatic variations which I am now in a position to record in detail. For each of 100 Blogs listed I included the three with the highest number of views
1-100
475 2258 Birthday weekend
204 2240 Russian salad and Gorky Park
87 2284 Third week of May begins
2-100
194 2156 A long weekend of riots in August178 2165 Boardwalk Empire and Roma crime
118 2187 Leveson Inquiry report 3
3-100
678 2030 Vietnam War, Treme, Boardwalk
Empire
173 2086 Five Opera Singers
101 2018 Egypt Latest
4-100
117 1641 Christianity background
94 1622 Gay Rights
85 1986 Prince Waleed bin Tatal and the Savoy
5-100
657 1572 Personal Experiences and Dr Pinney
259 1579 The Role of a Member of Parliament
99 1575 State Opening of Parliament and Damien Green
6-100
225 1475 Closing Ceremony Olympic Games
73 1513 The Conservative approach
64 1504 I predict outcome of General Election
7-100
215 1911 Foyles War and the Odessa Scandal
145 1897 Chocolate Heaven and Hell
99 1414 Elizabeth 1
8-100
111 1860 Haitian Earthquake
37 1859 Chilcot Inquiry
29 1870 Life through places visited
9-100
23 1810 The Itch, the Fixer
14 1301 A Good Woman Prospero’s Books
14 1843 Spooks Babylon 5
10-100
140 1282 The Greatest Raid of them all
30 1251 Big Brother Angelina Jolie
181271 The Good Citizen, Eric Clapton
11-100
19 1257 2008 Message
13 1701 Rufino Nicaacci Gino Barteli
10 1725 Angels and Demons in and out of
Parliament
12-100
20 1687 Robots, Dr No
14 1166 Theatre Royal Newcastle
12 1176 Howl Manchurian Candidate
13-100
20 1090 TV Watching while in Scotland
16 1095 People of Significance
11 1119 George and Diana Melly
14-100
524 1642 Political Scandals of the past
18 1014 Bergman’s Summer with Monika
16 1018 Bergman’s Through Glass Darkly
There is no immediate explanation for the results given that many have no readers or only 1. I mention that I have published sub pieces under separate Google Blog headings. The second Blog is that of Artman Films with 16561 views with an average of 25 views per item. Here there has been more of a division between the first 300 pieces and the latter 350 and with only 10 items having over 100 readers with the Greatest Raid of them All 453, 323 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 218 Sweetwater, 215 Gorky Park, 154 The best exotic Marigold Hotel, 136 Crazy Heart, 146 Oscar Triumphs, 126 Romanzo Criminale, and 120 Scenes of a sexual nature.
I have published a number of other category or individual subject pieces with again some unexpected results with the Greatest Raid of them All 453 views
2 pieces on the Swinging Sixties attracting an average of 271 views,
3 pieces on Ancient History registering an average of 110, the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry 3 average 92,
Fellini 6 average 80,
Sunderland 6 average 65.
South Tyneside 33 average 56,
the TV series 4400 11 average 51,
The Durham Cricket Club 2 average 43,
Television 170 average 41,
Princess Diana Inquest 10 average 41
In our Time 2 average 36,
Music 35 average 34,
European Travels 3 average 32,
Clumber Park 1 -30 views
Radio 3 average 26,
Sport 118 average 25,
Opera 20 average 25,
Speculations 15 average 25,
Brave New order 1 with 23
Scifi 19 average 22,
Travels in the UK 83 average 21,
Young Queen Victoria 1 with 20
Contemporary art project 35 average 18,
Literature 37 average 16,
The Theatre 20 average 14,
Novel 2 average 12,
La Strada 1 with 11
Northern Rivera 17 average 10
Lypsinch 1 with 10
Chronicles 140 average 6
Almodovar 6 average 5,
For the rest of the day I viewed the evidence of Lord Smith the former Culture Secretary and Alan Johnson, the former Home Secretary. The session finished mid afternoon in time to watch some of the House of Commons consideration of the recommendations of the Culture Committee that action should be taken against the three named individuals to-date who they said had previously lied to them during their phone hacking investigation. Although I had a good nine hours sleep I went to sleep while watching and missed a large chunk of the 90 minute session. The Procedures and Privileges Committee of the House of Commons is to investigate and will recommend to the House whether sanctions such as fines or imprisonment should be introduced in this instance and in general for future reference. The Culture Committee has said it may recommend action against other individuals presently the subject of police inquiries.
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