More and more readers! & Blog statistics

Happy Belated Christmas, and New Year 2009!

I'm amazed that although I hardly write in this blog anymore I still get more and more readers and hits. Thanks to all my readers (who seem to come from all over the world!) I also love getting emails and to those who I haven't replied to: I'm not ignoring you, I've just been quite busy and will reply to you really soon.


Top posts:

1. Hello Kitty Cafe, Taipei, Taiwan

2. 2007 World cities - cost of living survey

3. Carrefour shopping complex, Gubei

4. National Wear Red Day

5. Chinese New Year of rat 2008


Top keywords:

1. life in shanghai
2. carrefour shanghai
3. shanghai life
4. hello kitty sweets cafe
5. hello kitty cafe taiwan
6. hello kitty restaurant taipei
7. i dreamt i was pregnant
8. paul bakery shanghai
9. metro city shanghai
10. china birth rate


Some weirder keywords searched for through Google:

* 5rmb bag at zara china
* "sex and the city" + "think they can become"
* band aids that stick to dogs
* bathtub won't drain due to cold weather
* blood tonic for anemia from freshmart
* bound feet 裤子
* customs drug search perth airport 2008 velcro

Loving the Feedjit widget

I love the Feedjit widget (in the right hand column). I love seeing my visitors are coming from all over the world and even though I've been writing less over the past 2 months I've been getting more visitors than ever. Woohoo! Makes me feel popular (even if people are only spending 3 seconds on this blog, haha).

Blog changes

You may have noticed some changes. I'm still tweaking it (but it's a bit hard to do anything that requires too much concentration as my head is still stuffy and all that HTML and Javascript... eerrghhhh) but basically now my blog:

* Is green instead of pink! I don't particularly like green, but I don't not like it either. But I felt like a change and it's a calming colour so why not. And the template is pretty snazzy too.

* I've added some RSS links to make it easier to read and subscribe to my blog. Yes yes I know I have crossed over to the 'dark side'.. sort of.

* The best one of all. I've added a search box so you can search for words and in a flash it searches my entire blog for those words. Be sure to click the second option though and not 'web' or else it'll search the entire web for your keywords. I tested it to see if it was actually good at finding the right data and it did a really good job so I'm happy :)

I figured out how to comment on Blogspot blogs!

OK it's taken me this long to figure out how to comment without using a proxy (which doesn't work) or Tor or some such.

* Firstly you view the blog's URL through anonymouse.org.

* Then you click on the time at the bottom of a post, that brings up the comments if it's not already loaded.

* Then you click on "Post a Comment".

* Then it'll start loading a new URL.

* While that is loading, quickly highlight the address bar and delete the anonymouse part so the URL should be something like "http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1226965566032016527&postID=5747341705018688676"

*Then add your comment. Voila!

Discovered something about blogspot blogs' comments and TGF

I don't know why it took me so long to figure this out. The other day I was reading someone's blog and clicked on the time that is listed at the bottom of their post and sure enough I could read all their comments. So that is one way to read someone's blogspot blog in China including their comments, WITHOUT a proxy. :)

Darn diddly arn darn crap!

Aahh it had to happen sooner or later. China has banned blogger/blogspot right now so I cannot even view my own blog. Luckily I was already prepared for this and found out I can use pkblogs.com to view and edit my site. It's a bit of a hassle but better than nothing!

Let's hope the big bad censors hurry up and go away and find better things to worry about than someone's blog. It's a bit unfair to censor a whole blog site (with thousands of blogs on it) just because of a few worrying ones, don't you think? :(