Please Don’t Desert Me!

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I am currently embarking on what will probably be one of the most stressful periods in my life, so it is possible that things will be a little sparse around here for the next few months. I have every intention of blogging as often as I can, and indeed, I [...]

I Love a Good Bandwagon!

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So yet again, I’m jumping on it! Everyone seems to be creating Formspring accounts at the moment for people to ask questions and / or make comments anonymously. I’m planning on overhauling my info pages and would like to put up an FAQ of sorts, and this seemed like the [...]

Blogging Tools: Further Experiments in Monetisation

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Back in April, I posted a review of several different monetisation techniques I’d tried in the hopes of breaking even on my hosting fees. Blogging Tools 2: Experiments in Monetisation was one of my most successful posts and still gets hits, so I thought I would write an [...]

Scattered Glitter

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Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t written a “Sparkle Roundup” post in quite some time. I realised that the concept was becoming a bit stale, with the same blogs appearing over and over again because I can only subscribe to a certain number of blogs before my RSS reader [...]

Things I Really Should Blog About!

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It has occurred to me that I have a wealth of interests that I could probably write vast amounts of posts on, but for some reason, I don’t seem to write about. I’m not sure why, since I don’t exactly keep this blog to a specific topic or [...]

The Mineral Makeup Mutiny

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I have noticed quite a few searches for phrases relating to the Lime Crime drama that’s currently erupting throughout the blogosphere. I don’t really feel qualified to comment since this from what I’ve read (and I must admit, I do enjoy a bit of good old Internet drama from time [...]

First Blogiversary!

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Sparkle and Glitter is one year old today! Thank you all for sticking with me (even through slow periods like the current one), for your lovely comments, encouragement and constructive criticism when I’ve needed it. I still see this blog as a baby to be honest, I intended it to [...]

The Importance of Occasionally Giving In

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I have once again taken something of a “break” from blogging. After all the conversation and debate of the last few weeks, I found myself drawing a complete blank regarding where to go next – how to follow up something that inspired such fascinating conversation. Despite the many [...]

The Copycat Debate

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Have you ever taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test? For those of you that don’t know of it (and can’t be bothered to click through to the Wiki entry) it’s basically a long version of those personality tests you see all over facebook, only this one was developed with a [...]

Whatever Happened to Constructive Questioning?

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I really thought my days of Internet drama were over, but reading something posted on a recent article irritated me so much I felt the need to throw my own opinion into the mix, namely the comments posted [...]

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