{"id":856,"date":"2008-12-15T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T12:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2008-12-15T12:38:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T12:38:19","slug":"kicking-the-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Kicking the habit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If someone, somewhere sat down and totalled all of the hours I’ve spent checking sitemeter on this blog and over on the very longstanding original (http:\/\/fictionrus.blogspot.com – but I have shut it down now*<\/strong>) that time would, I’m sure, run to a fearful amount.<\/p>\n

Sitemeter. It’s a love\/hate thing. The information it gives is addictive, seldom wholly useful and often completely misleading (as anyone who works behind a proxy server with caching, or as anyone who sits behind a local authority firewall – where one IP address is generated for every user, even the public access terminals in libraries!) would know.<\/p>\n

But it appears<\/em> to be useful, and that’s the hook that it sinks surreptitiously in to\u00c2\u00a0 your psyche (almost alliterative!).<\/p>\n

However, I’ve grown up.<\/p>\n

A few days ago I said to the Soph ‘Soph,’ I said, ‘I’m giving up on the sitemeter thing.’<\/p>\n

I’ve learned my lessons from the good old\/bad old blog about what I can say in public and what I can’t; what will get me kicked out of a job and what won’t. **<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sitemeter has been removed from my browser bookmarks, except for the podcast. Because I want to monitor how the relaunched website goes when it goes live.<\/p>\n

And as soon as I get some time this evening I’ll be cancelling my account and removing sitemeter’s bits and bobs from this website.<\/p>\n

So that’s it, sitemeter. Thanks for the ride and the service but I’ve got better things to do with my time because I am now a grown up.<\/p>\n

B<\/strong><\/em> (aged 11-3\/4ths).<\/p>\n

* I haven’t deleted the old blog because I’m still attached to it. It is, after all, where Soph found me!<\/p>\n

**<\/strong> some might think that I now put my indelicate rantings elsewhere. I couldn’t possibly comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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