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The top 10 of posts in 2018
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The top 10 of posts in 2018

One year has (almost) gone and so much has happened, personally and royally. I started the year with a new blog design, about which I am still quite happy. 2018 I soon – in January – reached a milestone by having 400 posts on my blog. I must admit that since I have deleted a […]

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18 December 2018 – 550,000 Visitors!
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18 December 2018 – 550,000 Visitors!

Waiting already for it for a few weeks, as I noticed I could easily reach 550,000 blog visitors before the end of 2018. Today around 8pm Amsterdam time I finally reached this goal. This blog was started on 9 September 2012. Best ever views (4,318) on one day were reached on 1 October 2018 when […]

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500,000 Visitors – The Statistics
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500,000 Visitors – The Statistics

500,000 views, 165,891 visitors, 458 posts (459 if you count this one), 3,302 subscribers. These were the statistics of this blog on 6 June 2018 at around 1pm CEST. This blog was started on 9 September 2012. Best views surprisingly were on 18 July 2013. No idea what the reason was, probably the nearing birth […]

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GDPR – New Privacy Statement Photo from Pixabay
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GDPR – New Privacy Statement

I can’t imagine many people missed it. But since 25 May 2018 the new General Data Protection Regulation has gone into effect. The law was designed to harmonize the data privacy laws across Europe. It is supposed to protect and empower the data privacy of citizens of the European Union. Their website says the new […]

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400 Posts!
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400 Posts!

When busy with my blog yesterday, I suddenly noticed that my post on Sunday was actually the 400th post being published on this blog. Or at least the 400th post that is still there, as I have deleted some in recent years. I guess about half of them were written in the past year when […]

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A New Blog Design
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A New Blog Design

I hear you thinking! Not yet another blog design! When I moved this blog to its own domain almost a year ago my old WordPress theme for WordPress.com wasn’t available on the WordPress.org site, where WordPress sites with its own domain are hosted. I just choose one that looked nice, but since I have always […]

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The Top 10 of Posts in 2017
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The Top 10 of Posts in 2017

In the past year it has been a challenge to me to update my blog regularly instead of once in a while. Time to reflect and see which posts (old or new) were most popular in 2017. I slowly get more visitors, but I think I still could do much better. The concurrence of other […]

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Happy Holidays!
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Happy Holidays!

To all of you: A merry Christmas and a happy and royal 2018! Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! Noflike Krystdagen en in Lokkich Nijjier Glaedelig jul og et godt nytÃ¥r Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr Hyvää Joulua ja Onnellista uutta Vuotta Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo […]

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