Looking back on my posts from last year I see I had great plans (or, plans, at least) for a programme of increasing the pace of my study of Bengali.
But, as with the best-laid plans of mice and men, my study schedule went awry, though not entirely.
Looking back on my posts from last year I see I had great plans (or, plans, at least) for a programme of increasing the pace of my study of Bengali.
But, as with the best-laid plans of mice and men, my study schedule went awry, though not entirely.
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Tagged Learning Bangla, Learning Bengali, New Year's Resolutions, resolutions
I hate those blog posts that apologise for not having written more/more recently, though it was certainly something I alluded to in yesterday’s post.
Nevertheless, this blog’s sixth year of existence was hardly its greatest one, with a miserly four posts all year thanks to all sorts of valid but mundane reasons.
Naturally the plan for 2016 is to try harder, write more, learn more, do more, but then isn’t it always at this time of the year. Continue reading
The WordPress stats helper monkeys have been busy preparing automated reports on how blogs high and low fared in 2013.
Here’s an excerpt their annual report for A Tangle Of Wires: Continue reading
Happy birthday to me, A Tangle Of Wires is two today.
Along the way I’ve bolstered my Bengali learning and learned a whole lot more about Bollywood, which was pretty much the point of starting the blog.
What I hadn’t planned on were the high Google search rankings for Channel 4’s Bollywood films, which probably says something about writing on a particular niche.
Here’s to the next two years.
At break-neck slow-motion speed a week has passed since my new son arrived. This has put all non-essential work to one side as I take charge of cooking, cleaning, childcare and my wife recovers.
In the pipeline is a post on Bengali words around a baby theme; updating the older posts I transfered from Blogger to WordPress; and building up the Learning Bengali pages (any suggestions for what this should include would be gratefully received).
First, perhaps will be the baby words. In fact I persuaded my elder son to make suggestions for this today, so it’s creeping along. I didn’t fancy preparing this in advance, just in case it would tempt any kind of fate, so now it’s somewhere on the to-do list, behind sleep.
Move along please. Nothing to see here. Transferring back from Blogger, need to check twitterfeed and Google docs behave themselves.
WordPress is no longer ignoring me – so perhaps I just have the world’s smallest supply of patience. Whatever the reason for last week’s problems, I’ll stick with Blogger for the time being and see how we get on.
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I have no patience and ended up on blogger after I thought WordPress was not going to work for me. Now it does but it’s too late for the time being. So the blog is (for now) here.
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I’m new to blogging, but a long time reader of (mainly music) blogs. I recently started out on micro-blogging platform Twitter, you know, the one everybody’s talking about. It took a while to get my head around the idea of making everything public for anyone to see, which I know is hardly a new concept when it comes the Internet but one that took a bit of adjustment for me.
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Still testing out blogspot and blogging ideas. Expect I’ll stick with blogspot – or is it blogger? – given the headaches with trying to set up WordPress (.com version).
Also looking forward to writing non-‘I’m setting up a blog’ posts on proper subjects. You know, like music, films, books, creative writing, art and learning Bengali.
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