Silence Will Fall

Before I begin I would like to thank you all for still following this blog – including the actual followers of this blog - despite the lack of recent posts. I read the stats and it is great to know there are people out there still interested in reading it.

It’s 2012 and time for a fresh start! Some of you may have noticed that the appearance of this blog has changed. Soon it will undergo a more thorough overhaul while I weed out links to people who are not linking to me, make a few more changes to the sidebars and much more.

Another change, as you may also have observed, relates to content. The type of content will also be different though all wargames shows I go to will always appear on here. For the past year and a bit there has been no content from games at the Grimsby Wargames Society and it will stay that way for the foreseeable future. The reasons for that will be explained in posts between this post and Easter 2012 as I have chosen not to go to the club anymore. Once those reasons are explained it shall be become clearer as to why and I would hope most readers would find my choice understandable.

Since my previous post I have been doing a lot of running – though thats not why I havent been to the Grimsby Wargames Society – and actually ran and completed in 4 half marathons, the latest half marathon being at Sleaford on February 19th 2012. At the beginning of December 2011 I began my training for my first full marathon, the Hull Marathon, which I am running for charity at Easter 2012. As this blog is a wargaming blog I will try not to bore you with all the details but I have set up a blog about my running and training for my first marathon which can be found at http://runforenjoyment.blogspot.com

Season 6 of Doctor Who was excellent last year and thoroughly enjoyed the Christmas Special also. It just keeps getting better!

What have I done wargames wise? Not much to be honest. Bought myself a copy of the Black Powder rules which I am due to start reading to understand the rules. Acquired 2 packs from Pendraken Miniatures namely the sci-fi 10mm packs of the Aliens and Marines at £12 a pack to be painted soon. These were bought at the York show, Vapnartak, at which I did my usual trick of taking photos of games. Some of the photos I took from each game will be appearing on here with the rest of them going towards my latest wargames project. Details of that will also be appearing on here soon.

Once again, I thank you for all your support over the years.

Jason

Fw: Blog Action Day Recap: 31,000 Posts!

----- Original Message -----

From: Robin Beck, Blog Action Day 09

To: Jason Neilson
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:50 PM
Subject: Blog Action Day Recap: 31,000 Posts!

Hey bloggers,

You did it!

Yesterday you and bloggers in 155 countries across six continents wrote about a single issue that impacts us all, and turned Blog Action Day 2009 into one of the largest social change events ever held on the web.

Your participation helped change the conversation and showed the power of the web to connect people across the world who despite their varied backgrounds have one shared desire: to make a difference. According to blogpulse, we increased the number of posts about climate change on a given day by 500%, and CNN wrote a great article covering the excitement and diversity of today's event across the web and around the world.

A full recap is up on our blog, and here are some highlights:

We hit 31,000 total trackable blog posts, and our current estimate is that together we reached at least 17.9 million people yesterday. We just exceeded 13,000 registered bloggers on the site and are working to get all of you who posted but haven't yet registered into the final count.

We had at least three major world governments as active participants in this year's event. United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown posted the first Blog Action Day entry in Britain at the stroke of midnight on the 15th, which was followed by Foreign Minister David Milliband and many others from the UK stationed around the world. The PSOE governing party of Spain hosted a bloggers event focused on climate change and transformed their website for the day to promote Blog Action Day. And late in the day, President Barack Obama's White House blog joined in become part of the global movement of bloggers shaking the web.

Of course, well-known bloggers were a big presence yesterday as well:

• The Official Google Blog gave a green tour of the company's campus;
• Mashable asked what you're doing to reverse climate change;
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog suggested "Five apps to help save the world";
• Treehugger gave us two simple things that could, by themselves, stop climate change;
• Global Voices posted a roundup of bloggers from around the world writing in many languages;
• Gadling spent the whole day posting about green travel;
• BlogHer covered the road to the next international climate negotations in Copehagen.

There are many more, and we encourage you to check out the Featured Posts on the blogactionday.org homepage for a longer list of some of the world's largest blogs.

Many of our nonprofit partners, leading organizations from around the world, were also actively involved in making the event a success:

• TckTckTck released a beautiful and touching new video;
• Greenpeace bloggers from around the world joined in;
• World Wildlife Fund featured Blog Action Day on their international climate blog;
• Oxfam helped emphasize the human side of the climate crisis;
• 1Sky wrote about the front lines of political activism in the US;
• The Nature Conservancy helped us understand the science of climate change;
• NRDC's Switchboard bloggers wrote informative posts all day;
• Consequence wrote a whole series of posts on youth climate leadership.

You should all feel proud of this remarkable collective effort. And it doesn't have to end today. For many, we hope this serves as an entry point into the broader movement to address the issue of climate change. There are a number of ways and some amazing organizations through which you can continue to remain involved, and we encourage you to check out our Take Action section to learn more.

We will continue providing updates and information about the success of today's event and ongoing opportunities for involvement--including the the October 24th International Day of Climate Action organized by our friends at 350.org--here in the weeks ahead, and we hope you'll stay with us.

Thank you so much,

Robin Beck
Lead Organizer
Blog Action Day 2009

Blog Action Day on October 15th 2009

On Thursday it will be Blog Action Day and this blog will be participating. On the last update I have received there are apparently 5000 bloggers joining in worldwide from 127 countries.

The subject of Blog Action Day this year is Climate Change. So, to all you other bloggers out there: it's not too late to join in! Register your blog first on the official site at:

http://www.blogactionday.org/