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Woah, hold on here! What’s happening? I don’t like change damn it, what are you doing?!?

Yes, yes, I know some of you may just have passed out (hopefully falling out of your chair in the process) but you really need to relax for a minute. First off, yes, this is a new look. Second, depending on when you read this, it is still under development. You heard me right, I am customising this theme some what to suit my needs. Basically I will be streamlining the posts into five or six broad categories, rather than the mess it is in at the moment (just see the categories list to the right if you don’t believe me).

After this, I will go through and correctly tag old posts with as much detail as possible, so I can retain an accurate search funtion, but keep them categorised broadly. This will enable you to dial out the various things that you are not interested in, and keep what you want to see, by selecting a main category from the top bar of the page. Hooray! Should be good, or at least, it is good in my head… If I can transfer that to the digital paper upon which I write this, then I’m laughing all the way to the… umm… bank?

Then I will introduce various other tweaks and modifications to this theme, that I hope will keep you coming back! These include a new advertising partner, new posting strategies and a myriad of other, more secretive goings on, that I can only divulge to my closest acquaintances. So not you!

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Wait, hold on, I’m still in shock. I’m going to have to talk in short bursts. Because my heart is still beating far too quickly. For me to concentrate. On sentence structure.

Okay, I think I’m relaxed enough to carry on now, forgive me. If you too wish to trip out on the latest and greatest trailer for the most amazing film spectacle of the year, simply check it out right here, in gorgeous HD.

As you can see, this movie is going to blow people away, and I can only hope it’s even better than this trailer makes out. And to be honest, I really doubt it will fall down at that hurdle. Much rather, I think it will be just too good to actually show at cinemas, and therefore never be released. Argh!

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Okay, okay, okay, I apologise once again for letting the side down, it’s just lots of shit has been happening here. And yes, of course I can swear, it’s my blog. I can say whatever the fuck I want, damn it! Well, within reason I guess…
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Well, whilst bored at university if you must know, I figured I’d take a look through my Google Analytics profile and check what was happening on my site. Right, lots of hits and visits etc, but the most important part in my opinion? The keywords used to find my site. Now, I’m no expert but I thought these all had to be on my page, but some of them clearly are not, so some day I may work out how that works, but until then I will leave them shrouded in mystery. Wow, lot’s of commas in there, probably too many, but oh well…. like I’m going to proof read.

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Holy freakin’ crap! Well, I decided to setup proper email addresses at all my domains, and in the process remembered about my long forgotten ben@benjaminallen.co.uk (don’t worry, I’m deleting this account as soon as I have finished checking the mail) So, brilliantly I think, I decided to download all the mail using Outlook Express…
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Sorry, again, but yes, I did jinks my easy going life, and so much has happened at so many odd times of the day that over the weekend I really couldn’t find time to write anything worth reading. And to the person that shouted ‘you never do!‘, fuck you. So today I figured I would bring you the happy news of my recently ordered laptop.
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Let’s establish some context here… in the wake of losing a significant contest, in the never ending saga of ‘James v Kieron’, James was feeling pretty down, and certainly Kieron was on top of the world. So when he uttered the two simple words “Eat Butter” with that priceless expression on his face, it really did finish James off… I don’t think he’s ever been the same. Sorry James, but surely Kieron would be better at advertising butter. Watch and enjoy!

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Well, oops. Some of you may have noticed that I lapsed from my ‘once a day’ posting schedule during the beginning of this week. Well some things are more important than blogging, or even the Internet, so you must accept my apologies, and believe that there was some busy stuff going on in my life. Sorry. I have now restarted my posting once a day routine, in fact today is a two-sie, so be happy. You’ll get plenty of my opinion over the next couple weeks, don’t you be worrying about that. Well, hopefully you will, I don’t want to jinx (jinks?) anything and cause more pandemonium across my life…
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Well, I think this is better illustrated with a photograph, deliciously enough taken with my new phone…

Yeh, well, I was very drunk and then when the wrong people try and talk to me, who have been causing me a lot of problems for a long time, I flip. Sorry, that’s just me. Cut my hand up pretty bad… good times. Sigh.

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Hooray, I have a phone again! Finally I am no longer the ’slightly less connected’ individual I have been all weekend… Unfortunately I forgot I didn’t have a phone to take pictures of the unboxing with, so you’ll have to make do without. Sorry. Guess that kinda shows how I never, ever went anywhere without my phone. And that tradition can continue now, woo! Needless to say the box is a very nicely designed sleeve arrangement, with the phone being the first thing you see and two boxes beneath containg the plethora of booklets and leads included with the handset. This works very well, if creating a lot of waste, and looks pretty good, with glossy, but thin, black card to hold everything together. Something from the ‘Inspired by Apple’ department I think…

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So what’s been going on in the cinema world recently? Well, of course this is just what piqued my interest, it may be totally tiresome to you but whatever. Probably not. So, if you remember, I did round up what I was looking forward to this year, so as we approach the end of the year I thought it would be good to look further ahead.
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You would not believe it. In the last few days I have found several online advertisments (of which I have lost two of the screenshots for… sorry) where there are blatant mis-spellings (sp?).
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Hopefully good. Okay, I’m done for the day. Nah, just kidding =)
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Well, after two consecutive days posting, my traffic has increased! Okay, this is hardly proof of a permanent change, and could be completely random, but it does feel good. Also got a little bit of earnings added to my Adsense revenue (getting ever closer to my first hundred dollars now, wooo!) which rocks. So, onto the point of this post. Ummm….
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No, I’m not referring to the infinitely tedious subject of electromagnetic radiation (this time) but instead asking a question. Well, a rhetorical question anyway. How often is the ideal period to leave between posts? In other words, how often should I update benjaminallen?
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Where do I blog? Well, seen as you asked, I will tell you. I blog anywhere. Literally anywhere. I have my laptop with me at all times so it’s relatively easy to get a quick post fired off in a few minutes down time during my busy (yeh right) schedule, and this means I don’t have to dedicate true ‘time’, as such, from my day. However there are times when I like to spend time doing nothing but thinking and for these times I need to find somewhere suited to that deep peace I find so hard to accomplish in my manic lifestyle. It is for that reason that I come to you now from my car. Yes, blogging from my car means I can be anywhere I please, anywhere I can find quiet. Anywhere I can get away from MSN, my phone, the TV, and to put it bluntly, other people. Distractions. Now this may seem to run against what I blog about, mainly other people and their stupidity, and to a certain extent this is true. However I think it is also important to blog about other things. These could be anything, but really it just means I want to blog about things in my mind. In my soul, if you believe in such nonsense. Hmm, deep.
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