creative riff » Google http://creativeriff.com Stuff. Blended. A blog for the age(s). Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:03:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Out of the office http://creativeriff.com/2009/09/04/out-of-the-office/ http://creativeriff.com/2009/09/04/out-of-the-office/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:17:37 +0000 Ruth Loose88 http://creativeriff.com/?p=1142 Pee-Wee-755784It sure has been awhile since I last checked into the office. Basically half a month to be exact. My excuse: stealing a wireless signal in muggy Richmond makes one look more than a little suspicious. Now that I have had working Internet (I like how I think of it like running water) for over a week now, I have had no excuse for abandoning my infant. Or is this thing a toddler now (the website is 5 months old now)? I thought I would upload some pictures of my blog's analytics.

So here is my built-in blog stats generator:

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Man, September

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The service is free, "whether it's a news story, a Web site, a blog, an e-mail, a tweet or a Facebook message," a Google news release said. "We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran."

The ongoing events in Iran have gotten even more contested as Iran's Supreme Leader supports the decision of last week's election wherein Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad beat out popular candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The service could help millions better understand the events going on in a country that has repeatedly

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