May 2010 Review

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 20th, 2010 | 0 Comments

It has been a while since I last made a review post on how my blog is currently doing in relation to my work rate and what kind of traffic I am receiving. This review is for last month (May 2010). May this year was definitely a great month for me, I had been steadily building up my blog postings back to my old method of posting one a day and last month, May, I finally reached a posting rate which I am really happy with. Last month I made 26 blog postings, which is really good considering there is 31 days in May so I only missed out on 5 days in the whole month! :D Last month was my exams in college, and although I was studying away I made a good effort to get a blog post made each night. Here is a list of all of last month's blog posts:

31: Challenge begins tomorrow 30: my weekend, and the Turkish grand prix 29: a good web series 28: Brushing up on photoshop 27: newmovies.ie, where is it gone! 26: Clean slate 25: work begins on my new theme 24: and the weather continues 23: facebook Ahoy! 22: Really hot weather 21: No internet, and Google pacman 20: Finished my exams 19: Tomorrows exam 18: Three down, one to go 17: Setting myself a challenge 16: Monaco, what a race! 15: Online plans for the summer 14: Whats that song called? 13: Half way there 12: Now I have a bill phone 11: Started my exams today 09: Spanish Grand Prix – Can’t believe it 08: Marina and the Diamonds 07: Making a few changes 06: Google – A change in design 05: Exams approaching

Traffic to my blog last month has also been incredible, my traffic had dipped slightly towards the end of April, which was probably due to my lack of posts, but by making my regular posts last month I managed to bring my visitor count back up. Last month (May 2010) my blog received 12,161 unique visits with a total of 13,869 page views.  Not bad! If I compare this year's May traffic to last year's May (2009) traffic, there is a significant increase, last year I received 2,139 unique visits in May, so this year there was a 468.54% increase in traffic! So I am really happy with the way my blog is growing and hopefully I can keep up with the blog posts :D. I have also noticed that my RSS subscribers have also increased a lot since last year, last year I recall only having about one RSS Subscriber, but now I have about 37 on average each month, not bad! Maybe over the next few weeks I might be able to increase this count. I don't really have it too easy to subscribe to my RSS either so I will have to work on that! Maybe I will incorporate it into my new theme I am working on, if I ever get it finished! So for now I will list two ways that you can subscribe to my RSS feed, these two methods are either subscribing through a RSS reader such as Google Reader or you can subscribe by e-mail (by subscribing by e-mail, all my latest blog posts will be e-mailed to you between 11pm and 1 am GMT each day!). Just choose one of the options below! :D

Click here to subscribe to my RSS via a Reader

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Another thing I wanted to point out is what browsers my visitors use, the most popular one is Firefox! Which is great, just over 41% of my visitors use Firefox, the next most popular is Internet Explorer (if you use this I recommend you switch to either Firefox or Google Chrome), Internet Explorer makes up just over 36% of my visitors and then the third largest internet browser visitors use is Google Chrome which makes up just over 18% of the visitors.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: May 2nd, 2009 | 0 Comments

Tonight i went to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I had heard a lot about the film. Many people did not enjoy it all all while others thought it was great. As usual i like to watch films even if others thought that it was terrible. The reason i do this is because not everyone is the same, a lot of people have there own different opinions about what they do and do not like. 

Why let others tell you that a film is not good, if you believed them and you never watched it, then you could have just missed out on potentially your favourite film! Why not become your own critic and decide what is good for you?

Anyway i went to see the new Wolverine film tonight, i thought it was great. Full of action and really inherits the true character and storyline of who Wolverine really is. Hugh Jackman plays Wolverine brilliantly, i could not imagine anybody else playing this role, and if they ever replaced him, it would not be the same.

I even heard that this film was leaked online a month early, even though i knew about this, i decided to wait and see it in the cinema, i did not want to ruin it on myself. Sure it would of been great to see it early, but why not go and see the film after all the touch ups have been applied and get to see it the way it was meant to be seen! :D

Anyway enough of me going on about this film, just go out and see it for yourself. Be your own critic!

Trailer Below: