New Blog Features – LolPosts ‘I Can Has Copyright?’

After 4 months on the dot of writing this blog, I figured it was about time that I started some regular features. My highest traffic is fairly consistently on a Monday, so I am going to launch 3 regular ‘Monday Features’ [Website - TheLostGirl’s Blog].

1 – ‘LolDog of the Week’

2 – ‘LolCat of the Week’

3 – ‘I Can Has Copyright? – People Who Stole My Content This Week’

The first two are my admission to being a bit late into the LOL game. I really only just cottoned on to how damn funny they are. I deliberately ignored the blog for a while, but can no longer ignore it’s power.

The third segment, ‘I Can Has Copyright?’, is a slightly sarcastic look at the buggers who stole either whole posts, or whole paragraphs, without crediting me. I”ll be fair and not name them/ will go to reasonable lengths to cover up any logos, but I’ll print screen away until my fingers are worn down to the nub!

Written By – TheLostGirl ONLY for TheLostGirl’s Blog website – Accept no imitators.

http://iamthelostgirl.wordpress.com

Please let me know if you are reading this post ANYWHERE other than http://iamthelostgirl.wordpress.com. I, TheLostGirl, have NOT given permission for my post to be reproduced elsewhere. Anyone else who has this post up has likely pilfered it – cheeky bugger! You deserve better than stolen content. Read the real blog at my site – accept no imitators.

 

Moving On From My Sh*tty Job – Blah Blah Blah

Hi everyone. Just wanted to write a little personal post to let you all know how things are chugging along [Website - TheLostGirl’s Blog].

I actually finished up at my old job (that I hated), this Friday just gone.

I had always envisioned having a giddy feeling of joy when I left my old place of work, since I hated it so fervently – but I felt nothing.

There was a decidedly anti-climactic feeling to it all. My last day at work sucked. It was a decidedly miserable affair. I had been stripped of my duties, as there was no sense in carrying them on and then stopping dead. I was essentially stopped from doing anything but data entry because there was a backlog and no one else to do it. In my boredom, I decided to do a little surfing to brighten/ break up my day. I was caught and told off. My manager actually raised her voice and swore at me – informing me that I was ”taking the piss…” that she was ”pissed off”. Um. Okay. Are you really mah-dear? So you and your butt-kissing compatriot can sit for 20-30 mins at a time waxing lyrical about shoes, hair, and shopping while I am trying to work. Said arse-kisser can make (i exaggerate not) 20-40 personal calls per day, during working hours… that is OK? But, a little harmless surfing between tasks is worth demeaning me and swearing at me in front of witnesses?

Riiight. Did I mention that I rather hated this job? I did? Ok.

My last day was rather sad anyway – swearing aside. At 3pm there was cake and tea with the 2 people who could be bothered to come and say goodbye. I took the remaining sad little cake around to the other employees – on the instruction of my manager – as a means of saying ta-ta.

I had a few half hearted goodbyes. Some genuinely curious enquiries into what i am doing next (moving from finance to the charity sector). Oh, and one hug.

Never mind. Maybe I was naive to think that a sh*tty 10 months was going to be topped off by a great send off – that’ll teach me.

Since being at home (on the time I have off between jobs) I am finding that I am rather bored and lonely.

I live alone and have few friends, yet I am rarely bored or lonely.

There is a strange empty feeling that has crept over me, and I don’t quite know what it is. Maybe it is simply that, as a member of the workforce, I am used to having my time occupied. How often are we truly left to our own devices, with no outside pressure about how we spend our time? This next week coming up is truly mine, to do with as I wish.

By Jove, I think I’ve got it! I think I have just clocked what I am feeling. I am feeling something akin to ‘peace’. The inner peace that comes from knowing that I do not have to go back to my job on Monday. The peace of knowing that mistakes I have made, amount to nothing (to me personally anyway, muthafunkers!). Finally, I have the peace of knowing that – from this point forward – my evenings are my own – I probably took work home at least 10 times at my old job; these were big tasks from Christmas (!!!!) to about a week ago, that took me hours. My new job is designed slightly differently and hopefully it has been designed well enough that I can finish tasks in working hours/ it is being managed by someone who can tell the time and has a clue how long these tasks take (chuckles).

I have some high hopes in moving forward. I see no point in being bitter – I’ll save that for my old workmates (giggle).

I hope I can meet my new job with positivity and enthusiasm and tackle any demons it brings me head on!

Written By – TheLostGirl ONLY for TheLostGirl’s Blog website – Accept no imitators. http://iamthelostgirl.wordpress.com

Please let me know if you are reading this post ANYWHERE other than http://iamthelostgirl.wordpress.com. I, TheLostGirl, have NOT given permission for my post to be reproduced elsewhere. Anyone else who has this post up has likely pilfered it – cheeky bugger! You deserve better than stolen content. Read the real blog at my site – accept no imitators.

 

People Stealing My Content – Blah Blah Blah

My site is chugging along nicely, but there is one little issue that, frankly, I should have picked up on sooner. I write rather a lot, and I noticed that the Google ‘Incoming Links’ were flooding in thick and fast.

I checked yesterday, and there are innumerable websites stealin’ my content and it is blinkin’ well gettin’ on my nerves (enough that I temporarily forgot how to use the letter ‘G’).

In a (probably) futile attempt to tackle this, this I am going to make a slight change in the way that I format my posts. Essentially, the way I lay out posts/ write will remain the same – but I will now add links to my homepage, at the beginning, and end of each post. Shame I didn’t think of this 600 posts earlier!

For example:

TITLE

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah [Website - TheLostGirl’s Blog]

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

Written By – TheLostGirl ONLY for TheLostGirl’s Blog website – Accept no imitators. http://iamthelostgirl.wordpress.com

Please let me know if you are reading this post ANYWHERE other than http://iamthelostgirl.wordpress.com. I, TheLostGirl, have NOT given permission for my post to be reproduced elsewhere. Anyone else who has this post up has likely pilfered it – cheeky bugger! You deserve better than stolen content. Read the real blog at my site – accept no imitators.

UPDATE 10 MAR 2008 – HOORAY! It worked. There was one website in particular that seemed to be set up to automatically steal entire posts of mine (including personal posts); said website has now removed at least 5 of my posts (including the personal one). In addition, the copy in the posts clearly does not belong to them and looks hilariously out of place on their website. I’ll take small victories where I can find them

 

TheLostGirl Hates… Working Off Her Notice

Friday just gone is the last Friday I ever have to work at my current job. I am finding that working this bullsh*t notice period is a rather hard slog though…

In the grand scheme of things, 4 weeks notice is not all that much. When you factor in the holiday I was due etc; I got away with a lot there, so I really I can’t complain… but I am finding myself really rather impatient and frustrated in a way that usually am not.

I have to keep telling myself that even the worst of scenarios are of no real consequence any more; the most inane of conversations, never to be repeated; the most time-wasting projects, never to be worked on again.

I am still there in body, but I feel I am a ghost. In the words of Christian Bale’s character in American Psycho…

There is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours… I simply am not there.

 

TheLostGirl Loves… Lazy Saturdays

Just wanted to say a quick hello, as there seems to be a lot of you lovely people in cyber space dropping by today.

Had a lazy day in today. Using the weekends to recharge my batteries and do as little as possible. I have a to-do list the length of my arm in the week running up to starting my new job… errand running can wait until then!

Does anyone else basically use the weekends to charge their batteries – or am I just colossally un-exciting?

Maybe I am starting to show my age, but after working stupid hours at my current job; I am too tired to do anything exciting (like… say rock climbing or brain surgery) on the weekends.

I have recently been working ridiculous hours for an office job. My contracted hours are 9-5:30. For reasons mainly relating to my train drivers being too retarded to tell time (therefore, making me late), I had been erring on the side of caution and turning up to work ridiculously early. I was starting between 8 and 9, not having a lunch break, and then working until 7:30 (at the latest). I don’t eat breakfast (as it’s an effort at that time of the morning); I stopped having lunch at work for about 3 months – as I never had time; and I would come home and go straight to bed with no dinner as I was so tired. FYI, being sleep deprived and essentially starving, will get old real quick… I totally don’t advise it

P.S. If I go a bit quiet for hours at a time on Sunday, it’s because I took home some work that needs doing.

P.P.S Taking work home, like I did at Christmas (yes, Christmas!) is soooo f*cking old. I am so glad I only have another week and a half a my current job. I will totally not work retarded hours/ take work home, as a matter of course, at my new job.

TheLostGirl

 

There’s Something Weird Going On With My Stats!

Hello everyone. I noticed that I have had a bit of a surge of readers lately. Is anyone else in WordPress having a really weird time with their stats? I can’t tell if I really am getting a jump in readers, or if my stats are f*cked. I keep getting people randomly typing in the following:

• kimora lee simmons
• jennifer lopez
• kim kardashian
• ashanti
• kimora lee
• ashley tisdale
• kimora lee simons
• brittany murphy
• vanessa minnillo
• johhny depp
  

… this seems really fake to me. None of those people are that interesting for over a thousand people a day to come looking for them. In addition, it is rare that people type in celebrity names and get directed straight to my site! They type in phrases like ‘NERD Everyone Nose Single’, or something. I Googled the terms myself and I am not high enough in the rankings under those specific terms to be high enough to suddenly triple my traffic (FYI )

There are 8 posts or so that are getting artificially boosted by this phenom (Note: the caps are an update, as of 23 Feb… see below for more info)

• Celebrity Update- Kimora Lee Simmons Sued For Daylight Robbery - DELETED
• Ashanti’s Little Sister Nearly Gave Me a Heart Attack - UNLOCKED
• Jennifer Lopez Misses Point of Pregnancy - UNLOCKED
• Kim Kardashian Engaged to Reggie Bush - DELETED
• Celebrity Update- Ashley Tisdale & Brittany Murphy Might Be Long Lost Twins – UNLOCKED
  
• Nick and Vanessa’s Fauxmance, The Saga Continues - DELETED
• Nick and Vanessa’s Fauxmance, Wedding New - DELETED
• Celebrity Update – Johnny Depp is Rather Attractive - DELETED

I actually really care about maintaining and growing my stats, and therefore have blocked people viewing the effected pages. As far as I can tell there are not really thousands of people looking at the stories but some other annoying f*ckery is afoot!

I hope the situation is resolved and I will unblock the pages later, so people can read them. Sorry if you were looking for them but were unable to locate what you wanted.

TheLostGirl

UPDATE 23 FEB 2008 - I have been keeping an eye on my stats and for the most part this irritating issue is resolved. Most of the inflated stats have calmed down/ returned to normal. I was forced to delete a handful of posts as they were annoying the hell out of me and throwing my reports waaaay off! The caps above show any changes made, for those who are interested. Guys, please note that I DO NOT make a habit of deleting posts willy-nily but this was necessary. The erroneous stats were screwing up my reports and making them unusable. In addition, I was finding it impossible to tell what as going on with my real page views. It was time consuming in the extreme to monitor the stats that closely and keep locking and unlocking them, so I just kinda thought f*ck it on this occasion!

Sorry!

TheLostGirl

 

The Pretend Katie Holmes Rocks My World!

Slow news days suck arse people. I have been keeping my ear to the ground for some juicy gossip today, but no dice. So I figured why not post something fun to distract my saucy readers from the total lack of interesting celebrity news today (oops ).

The video below is from vlogger ‘What the Buck’. At least I think he is a vlogger. He is a dude with his own news parody channel on YouTube. The clip shows a pretend Katie Holmes in a parody interview. The pretend Katie answers all questions with an uncanny, pained, slightly constipated grin a la Katie… Or should I call her Kate?