New Years Resolutions Time

I'm generally not that good at keeping New Years Resolutions, so for 2010, I may as well aim big.

Lets put some big lofty aims and goals in. Not the usual Resolutions like 'Joining a Gym and only going a maximum of 3 times' or 'Drink less Alcohol until the second week in February', no no no, we need something awe inspiring to others and impressive when brought up in general conversation.

"How's your New Years Resolution coming along to install World Peace and Harmony?"

"Give us a chance mate, it's only October!"

Yes well, maybe.

New Years Resolutions then... um, erm, well what about these?

1.Eat more Toast
2.Break the Mens World Long Jump record of 8.95m
3.Win the London Marathon dressed as a Penguin

I'm quietly confident about number of 2. I just have to find another 6 metres.

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How often should you update a Blog?

Well... what's the answer? Once a day? Once a week? Once a month? Once a decade ???

Hmmm, there's no real set rule about this and I don't think there ever will be. I suppose that's good. However, if you can keep to a decent posting schedule, then that's great. Regular readers will always know when you have something new to say and it is probably better for the mysterious Google Search Engine also. If you don't update your blog regularly, then people may give it up for dead. Bad news.

However... it's not good to force yourself to Blog when you haven't really anything of interest to say. That's just going to annoy people. Well, it might interest masochists. Um, if you write a masochists blog then that's probably ok.

So... how have I done in 2009? Well, not that well really. I had planed to update regularly and in some parts of the year was pretty successful. Other parts, the blog did look a bit dead and on my return there were quite a few cobwebs about the place.

US President Barack Obama gave himself a B+ on his first year in office. Seeing as we are now allowed to mark ourselves, erm, I'm giving myself a B+ also.

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All hail the Octopus !

Is it Octopuses or Octopi? I'm never really sure. Regardless of my woeful ignorance for pluralising oceanic tentacled lifeforms, just how intelligent are these creatures anyway?

This one seems to have worked out that a coconut shell can be both utilised as a crash helmet and a handy hiding place. There's clear intelligence here as the Octopus first finds the coconut and then takes it with him to cleverly use later on.

I wonder what he would do if he found something more useful like a Machine Gun. An Octopus with a Machine Gun could really clean up.

Is this Octopus really that intelligent though? If people saw me up our Local High Street hiding under a coconut, I'd be branded an idiot. They see an Octopus do it and suddenly he's a Genius. Octopuses get all the breaks.

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