This blog is dead and resurrecting somewhere!

Hi readers!
I am moving to another address. I'll lose everything.

I know, but the Picasa affaire is without mercy.

However, I'd like to keep sharing my works. Here the new blog.


http://desilentioumbrae.blogspot.it/

Hope to find you there!
This blog is going to die however.


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This blog is dead, and resurrecting somewhere right now!

Hi readers!
I am moving to another address. I'll lose everything.

I know, but the Picasa affaire is without mercy.

However, I'd like to keep sharing my works. Here the new blog.


http://desilentioumbrae.blogspot.it/

Hope to find you there!
This blog is going to die however.


stats

This blog is dead and resurrecting somewhere!

Hi readers!
I am moving to another address. I'll lose everything.

I know, but the Picasa affaire is without mercy.

However, I'd like to keep sharing my works. Here the new blog.


http://desilentioumbrae.blogspot.it/

Hope to find you there!
This blog is going to die however.


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THIS BLOG IS DEAD (and it is resurrecting)!

Hi readers!
I am moving to another address. I'll lose everything.

I know, but the Picasa affaire is without mercy.
 
However, I'd like to keep sharing my works. Here the new blog.


http://desilentioumbrae.blogspot.it/

Hope to find you there!
This blog is going to die however.
 

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Technical problems

I think you cannot see pics on this blog. Picasa makes me a joke.

Hope to fix everything!

Sorry readers

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UPDATE: all the pics are gone. Fantastic, also beacuse I do not have them (erased). Well I'm thinking of create a new blog. Stay tuned for news.

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One year blogging!

Hi you all!
It is already finished my first year of blogging, incredible!
This post is published the same day and hour of my first post, exactly one year ago (approximated to minute).

I'm very satisfyed by this experience, also because the blog is a fantastic log that keeps tracks of all the progress, failures and fun that I have with my my small plastic soldiers.

Image from the internet.

Can we predict the winning of a battle?

Hi readers!As you already know I'm not a player: I paint small minis, sometimes I sell them, I like to create armies, but I do not battle.

However the mathematical part of a battle is very interesting to me: rolling dice were one of the funniest thing to do - when long years ago I played- but knowing the probabilistic features under the dice is now very interesting, above all if you are a player I suppose.

Image taken from the Internet, if you are the author/owner, tell me and I'll take it away/ put your name.

Chatting about blogging: big money!

Hi readers!
Today a small post about blogging: clearly the title is a bit ironic!
As you already know, I like a lot talking about small horrible minis, but also about numbers and statistics.

Recently you have read something about our beloved hobby, id est the fact that maybe it is becoming slowly less "alive". Clearly we do not have the official GW datas about sales and stuff, so I tried to investigate using the "popularity" of our favourite games on the internet, using the nice instrument provided by Google called Google Trends.
The post arose some interesting discussions (check the comments and join the discussion if you want), and weirdly (or not) that post fastly become one of the favourite posts of my short blogging life - and this make me very proud-! If you have missed it, check it out here!

Some week ago I decided to share also some interesting imho datas of my blog, looking the great quantity of indicators that Google Analytics gives free to us to analyze our blog. Generally I'm not interested in great volumes of data: I prefere to share my work and hoping that it is useful to somebody, so analyzing those data is a great way to understand if people is interested in your job, if "you are doing right", and also the behaviour of them on your blog.
 Most of all of us is genuinely interested in sharing without thinking to sell something,so not interested in maximizing the number of sessions etc., but I love investigate in numbers, so those things are interesting to see in my opinion. Here the link if you want to know!

And now the last step of my thinking: is it possible to monitize something with your blog?
Bloggers have discussed about this, one above all the great Thor from Creative Twilight here (I did not thanks you on your blog for a matter of time, so thanks now).
I decided to try to do something, giving me some constrains: first I'm blogging for fun, not to maximize my profit function: this means not to become crazy if I'm not going to achieve great result. Second I decided to do not upset my blog: I do not like big banner and stuff that make my blog slow and heavy, and your reading difficult.

I decided to try AdSense, but it seems that it does not work, I do not know why: the area of the banner is ok, but I cannot see it, and it is quite annoying! If you know what I'm doing wrong, tell me, I'll be glad for your help!

Lastly I decided to use the eBay Partner Network. You already know I sell some works on eBay (check it if you want!): I also buy some minis there, because I like the low price, and if you are careful you can find a lot of interesting bids, so, if in one hand I can gain something, on the other hand it is also a nice service that I can give to you. Therefore I decided to try also with it!

So up on your left you can find some link to different eBay: I really do not know why there is the symbol of broken image link near them, if you know, tell me please!

If you are interested, they are already set on some search on the site, the click is free, and I hope you'll help me to become billionaire! Just joking, I'm very curious about those instrument, so if you want click on it, and I promise to give you reports about this (so you'll decide to use them on your blog or not!) and more DGD minis bought with those money of course!

Any thought about those things?

Data of your blog!

Hi readers!
Ok the title is a bit specious but now I got your attention! As you already know there is only few things I prefere than paint little dirty bloody monsters, one of them is Statistic. Many of you have a blog or something similar, and you have a great quantity of data, that you can find interesting to analyze.

imagine found on the web randomly, if you are the owner, tell me I'll remove/add a link if you prefere

Is Our Hobby Dying?

Hi readers!
 Some days ago I was thinking about our beloved hobby: all of us have read opinions about AoS, GW financial items and stuff. I decided to share something I've discoverded with the poor open data you can find on the internet given by daddy Google. If you search Google trends, you can find a search engine that can help you to know wich words are searched in the world: I decided to use this thing to try to understand if our hobby is searched: I clearly know that this is not a perfect barometer of our hobby - I'm stats, not funnynumberontheweb lol- but I suppose that could be interesting analyze the few data we can easily reach.

A pair of details:
the country you are going to see are the most frequent in some search: sometimes you can see a state with 0, it means that in a "brother" graph it was present a data>0 (so this is why you see it "red" and not blank);
if you vary the time, the line and trend are logically increasing or decreasing for the same variable: it is the nature of those data, you should be smart to read them (not so simple);
sometimes in the graph (they are interactive, pass the mouse on them) you can find some non english word, but these words are easy to translate;
google datas are "relativized", the highest number is =100, and so on the other: this is not my favourite form of data, but it is what we have! N.b. with a mobile device you could not see the interactive graph


First, lets analyze the word "Warhammer" as common term.
As we can see, the term has a decline in searching, with a great peak on 09/2008. Unfortunately that time I was not in the hobby, so if you can help me to know why that happen, I'll be glad.