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From Russia, with love
Thursday, 17 June 2010 @ 20:30
Friends, countrymen, and most importantly - Russians. This blog has entered a new era. At some point within the last week, this blog had its first non-Anglophone hit. Straight out of the former USSR, our mystery blogger came and had a taste of this bootless moan. And the blogger tasted the content available on the blog, and it was good, and that fact in conjunction with the fact that I will use some words frequently searched for by Russians in this post should put me well on my way to securing countless other Russian followers.

As you can see, from this representative graph, Russian traffic is still relatively low, internet traffic that is - people trafficking remains high. (Gotta love a dig at another culture). However, when that great swathe of continent turned even the pale shimmer of green that it currently stays at, my heart leapt. There is no doubt in my mind that within a few weeks tops, it will be pushing black with the volume of traffic we will receive.

It also makes me think, if the Russians like it, perhaps there are other emerging bootless moan markets we ought to expand into. Not many blogs in Mongolia - perhaps there is an opportunity there. Hardly ever see a blog from Madagascar - is it time that we single handedly changed that? Does Timbuktu need our blog too? All important questions, which will be dealt with as soon as the (inevitable) tide of Easter European visitors swells the stats of my humble blog to gargantuan proportions.
 
(Edit: MIDNIGHT) Right everyone, thought I would hit you with a quick update. It must be quick because, clearly, people are rampaging over this site, and if they don't new content delivered over the wires at a rate of many knots, then they will not be pleased. It turns out through further investigation that my mystery vodka-swilling guest was from Moscow. Amazingly Google Analytics can tell me things like that. Rather more depressingly it also lets me know the average amount of time that my visitor spent on the blog. Drumroll please:

00:00:00

So, less than half a second. Be honest - that's pretty bad. Even for this blog, that's shameful. I'm sad in a way I'm publishing this fact to the web. I'd rather be a Dungeons & Dragons player than have a blog with one hit from a dude sat in his Mum's house in Moscow who decided, in the space of one blink of the eyelid, that my blog was completely, unarguably not worth hanging around.

Anyway, other than emitting animal-like magnetisim to all things Eastern-bloc, I have been doing very little except for moving out of London for the forseeable future.

Sad face. :(

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"The circle of human knowledge, illuminated by the pale, cold light of reason, is so infinitesimally small, the dark regions of human ignorance which lie beyond that luminous ring so immeasurably vast, that imagination is feign to step up to the borderline and send the warm, richly colored beams of her fairy lantern streaming out into the darkness ; and so, peering into the gloom, she is apt to mistake the shadowy reflections of her own figure for real beings moving in the abyss.

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I'm a 23 year-old student in London Cambridge London, studying English Literature Law. It's hard to really think of anything truly personal I can put here that might give you some idea of who I am, so I will just tell you that my favourite Shakespeare play is Richard II, my favourite chocolate bar is Snickers, and I have a bit of a thing for instant coffee, especially if someone else makes it for me.


I'm interested in Renaissance Literature, Higher Education policy, and libraries.
I'm completely in love with a Scottish girl.