Just minutes ago I was on a wonderful section of this website studying how many people had viewed my blog in the last 7 days. Proudly sat at 0 people. Even my mum has given up! #winning
Sorry for the irrelevant need to "hashtag". "Hashtag" - funny word/symbol. The word/symbol may be interesting to study (or read through on Wikipedia)... it's been on a bit of a journey. The "#" sat unnoticed and unvalued on our keyboards, probably only ever used once in a blue moon and occasionally prodded by a child's sloppy finger or a cat's unintended paw. One of the discriminated keyboard symbols.
But then Twitter burst on the scene and gave the "#" some worth, some fire power and most importantly some need. The "#" was used on Twitter to categorise topics and make Tweets easily searchable. But that soon faded and "#ing" started to become used in a variety of situations such as for comical value or to emphasise a point - a point, it's worth noting, that more often or not did not need emphasising.
Anyway today we sat in a point of the human race where words like "Hashtag" have become common place outside of Twitter. The phenomenon scours the internet and our text messages like the plague becoming an uncreative, overused and nonsensical comical tool. So for that you have my #apologies.
Bit of a sad arse but I love the picture above. It's a picture of part of a poster that hangs on my wall. It will soon make its debut as this blogs background picture - if I can figure out how to do that.
Finished my first German audio course book earlier today and have swiftly moved on to a new course. The Michel Thomas Method is a widely praised language teaching course - one that involves less emphasise on grammar and textbooks but focuses more on pronunciation and absorbing the language step by step.
Staying with Deutschland, I have chosen the farm I will WWOOF on. Matthias, the farmer, has pencilled me in for the start of May. The plan being I go to Amsterdam with friends before and then fly from there to Germany and stay on their farm for two weeks. That's the plan. Just waiting for work to confirm I can have the time off.
Going back to the 0 viewers I have on this blog. Maybe that's not such a bad thing. I can keep it personal. Although writing a blog to no viewers but myself is a bit like talking to myself... maybe I'm going crazy then.
