After being tagged by not one but two fellow bloggers – Soob and Eddie – I guess I should partake in a meme. Consider it a one-off holiday season thing… Link to the person who tagged you, and post the rules on your blog. Share Christmas facts about yourself. Tag seven random people at the [...]

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Adam (Simulated Laughter) and Mark (ZenPundit) both have shiny new blogs. ZenPundit.com: Finally, this excellent blog has the design and appearance appropriate for the quality of its posts. Rethinking Security: Adam’s new blog. I love the banner image! A good-looking blog doesn’t have to be hard work, but coming up with a good design isn’t [...]

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One of my favourite blogs marked its third anniversary yesterday. I have been reading the pseudonymous Chirol, Curzon and Younghusband since mid-2005, and their blog has just gone from strength to strength, with excellent posts, fascinating travel diaries, and an attractive, functional redesign earlier this year. If you don’t read them, you should. Also, belated [...]

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Blognor Regis – apologies to Mark, thought I’d linked this last year! State Failure -h/t ZenPundit, this scholarly blog looks fascinating. FutureJacked – creative thinking on future threats. The usual disclaimers apply, of course One more: Statisfy. Track our hits in real time. A fun tool, free and easy to put on your own site.

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A few months ago, I installed a Gravatar plugin, only for Gravatar to go down a couple of days later.  It’s been a long wait, so I was pleased to find out that Gravatar 2.0 is now fully operational. If you don’t know, Gravatar is a free service whereby you can upload an image of [...]

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Thanks Mark of ZenPundit for adding me to the blogroll – and posting about it, comparing our blog to the excellent Coming Anarchy. Also, welcome ZenPundit readers, I hope you enjoy the blog, and take some time to look at the archives. For those of you who’ve never read ZenPundit, Mark is a true intellectual [...]

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I’ve been back 5 days from my epic summer holiday, which Luke has described in great detail in the previous post, and normal transmission shall be resuming today. 2006 ended very well for this blog, with a series of good news and important milestones: Our 100th post, on December 26th. The first time we have [...]

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There has been a bit a hiatus here at Pacific Empire, which I am happy to report will be ending around about now. I will begin this post with some meta-blog discussion, before telling you loyal readers about the events of the past few weeks, of which the most important is that I’ve finished my [...]

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September was the first full month of Pacific Empire. We’ve had 23 posts, 47 comments, 668 returning visitors and 510 new visitors – a respectable average of 39 visitors per day. Top referrers were Not PC, Kiwiblog and John Robb. Some posts triggered great discussions, especially “Should Auckland declare independence?”, which was linked to by [...]

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It’s been two weeks since I officially launched Pacific Empire, although I’d been working on it on and off for months. Since that time we’ve had several hundred visits, and incoming links from Not PC, Kiwiblog, New Zeal, Crog’s Blog, tdaxp, Pukeko, and of course Lovelee. Thanks all. I also thank the anonymous donors who [...]

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