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I notice it’s been a couple of months since I’ve posted on here. I’m not dead (as I so frequently have to reassure my mother), just busy. Since that last Who review, I’ve moved to Brighton, where I’m now sharing a house with blog-associate S Chladek, and started university, which is great, but time-consuming. In any event, almost all my free writing time has been spent chipping away at the vast edifice of Atomic Golem, but I’ve also taken over writing duties on Wych Wolf , the (awesome) webcomic drawn by my dad. For the blog, I’ve started about five or six different pieces, none of which have been finished yet. Oh, and I’ve been playing loads and loads of Skyrim (one of those unfinished pieces, by the way, is a review of Skyrim which has about three paragraphs on why the spirit of the game is exemplified in the ability to pick up wooden plates). For more timely (and frequent) updates from me, you could do worse than following me on Twitter. That’s it for the moment. See you again at Christmas/when the book’s done (so probably Christmas).

You have no idea how long I've been waiting for an excuse to use that title

Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere. But flick your eyes upward – oh no! I changed the name! Bought myself a brand new domain and everything. Yep, this is no longer the NRB (though the old domain still works), it’s regenerated into Adam Englebright Dot Com! Glancing at my dashboard, I’ve written 365 posts (how strange!), goodness knows how many words, most of them utter rubbish, in the almost three years since I started. Looking back at some of the utter dreck I used to write, the quality of my writing has improved enormously, which is nice (though thinking about it, I was 15 at time of first posting). Anyway, see you in a few days time, when I’ll no doubt be talking more rubbish about this Saturday’s Doctor Who!

Right. Those of you who read this blog for stuff I write, as opposed to my Delicious bookmarks for today (sorry about that, I bookmark lots of stuff on Delicious) will be glad to know I’ve shifted the auto-posting of my Delicious bookmarks over to another blog which is currently being used for only that. This blog is being used to post reviews of games, films and television and other stuff of that nature. Upcoming writings will hopefully concern The Shadow Line, which I’ve almost finished watching, Torchwood, which I wasn’t intending to watch but have had recommended to me by several people) and Fringe (which I’ve been watching in box-set form), amongst other things. Most other stuff (thoughts too long for tweets, silly pictures, etc) can be found at my tumblr here, which also collates everything else I do. I also Twitter here. I’m also trying to write a book in competition with Scott, for slightly (but not much) more on that, go here.  I think that’s everything. Thanks to the reglar readers, and I apologise for the irregular posting.

New podcast – Feedburner is messing me around, so it isn’t on iTunes yet, but you can get it straight from the site. Go and listen. Subscribe and review us on iTunes!

A few things. I’ve been spending a little time over the last few days unfollowing people on Twitter and unfollowing feeds on Google Reader. Partly because I was following over a thousand people on Twitter and separating the good from the cruft was becoming increasingly problematic, so I cut it down to 551. I just read this thing which Merlin Mann wrote some time ago. I think I was subconsciously trying for something in this vein – trying to ingest only the best, rather than an absolute cavalcade of crud.
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I thought since the lovely people at WordPress were generous enough to provide it for me, here’s my blog review thing. I would be very interested to know if anyone’s ‘blog health meter’ was anything less that the top thingy, though. Here it is

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 234 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 287 posts. There were 281 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 27mb. That’s about 5 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was June 27th with 833 views. The most popular post that day was Review: Doctor Who: The Big Bang.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, lifetheuniverseandcombom.blogspot.com, shipwithoutarudder.wordpress.com, en.wordpress.com, and twitter.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for fable 2, star trek enterprise, midsomer murders, doctor who big bang review, and david cameron funny.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Review: Doctor Who: The Big Bang June 2010
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My Problem With… Star Trek February 2010
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Review: Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens June 2010
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Jokes which are no longer funny February 2010
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Review: Doctor Who: Cold Blood May 2010
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I really couldn't find a picture to illustrate this post, so I chose an old favourite.


This time last year, I was about to start doing One A Day – one blog post a day for an entire year. Well, for three quarters of the year, and then I gave up. There you go. I’ve decided that perhaps one a week would be easier than one a day, and at least I’ll have something to write about for thirteen out of fifty-two weeks*. Who knows, maybe I’ll be able to write a little less tiresome dross this time around. This time, it’s being organised by Pete Davison, one of the few who was able to stick it out to the end of last year’s efforts. If you’re interested in joining, the site for the project is here
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