It’s a funny thing but when people throw stones it really gets to me. I think some people call them ‘trolls’ online? Anyway, I published an article yesterday ranking the top Premier League football teams on Facebook and a rank of the fastest growing team fan pages. It was published for The Wall Blog and contained our own analysis of publicly available data.

Minutes after it was posted, I had this comment

Did you take your inspiration from this blog to create ‘your’ work?!?

http://www.barriesview.com/2011/07/manchester-united-leading-the-way-on-facebook

The short answer I replied was no I hadn’t. The information is available to us all, and the standard table created on that page was from July. As I am not a football fan, I don’t actively seek out such content.

Why does it bother me? Apart from questioning the integrity of ‘my’ work, the guy doesn’t have the balls to publish his real details. ‘Brian D’  doesn’t have the courtesy to leave his full name  nor a valid email address.

I am happy to discuss the merits of my work but I don’t like people throwing stones and running away. It bugs me.

Rant Over.

Today I close please send me a postcard. This site was aimed to garner postcards form around the world and share them. The simple plan was, send me a postcard with one tip from wherever you are.

We had over 100 different postcards which was brilliant but I could not put enough time into it for the site to grow.

So thankyou for reading, and sending. Let’s do it again sometime

There’s No Way Out of Here by David Gilmour

There’s no way out of here, when you come in you’re in for good
There was no promise made, the part you’ve played, the chance you took
There are no boundaries set, the time and yet you waste it still

So it slips through your hands like grains of sand, you watch it go
There’s no time to be lost, you’ll pay the cost so get it right
There’s no way out of here, when you come in you’re in for good

And never was there an answer, there an answer
Not without listening, without seeing

There are no answers here, when you look out you don’t see in
There was no promise made, the part you’ve played, the chance you took
There’s no way out of here, when you come in you’re in for good

This post is to trial the embedding of a Google Docs spreadsheet. I have made the sheet visible to anyone with the link and I have included a Google Docs embedder plugin. Below you should see the sheet…

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This is quite scary. A timelapse video showing every nuclear explosion on our planet. Where, when and by whom. Want to guess the total number of explosions?