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Merry Christmas in Lots of Languages

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:03:00 -0800

Fancy trying to get your tongue around Happy or Merry Christmas in over 70 languages, then head on over to http://yxmas.com/merrychristmas and give it ago!

If you know how to say it in another language, then please contact me - I'd love to add it to the list!

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Another Carol to Karaoke

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:29:45 -0800

I've added another Carol to the Christmas Karaoke page in the fun section. You can now try crooning along to The Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night, All Christian Sing) as well as your other Christmas favs!

If you know a Christmas song that's not on the page, let me know and I'll try to add it!

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All moved and ready to go!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:41:13 -0700

whychristmas?com has now been moved on its new hosting and is ready for the big Christmas rush! So tell your friends and family, cos we're all excited about having lots of Christmas fun!

I don't think there was any down time, but if there was - sorry!

So if you want to know about Christmas traditions, customs and much more - visit www.whychristmas.com

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Moving Servers

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:41:39 -0700

Last year (2008) was the busiest ever for whychristmas?com with over 2.4 millions hits in December 2008 alone and the numbers look like they're gonna be up on that for 2009!

So in preparation for the madness (!) the site will be moving to a different server in the next few days.

For the past few years, the site has been hosted at Alphaone Tech - who have been great, especially when i broke several of their servers last year! They're a great host and all my other sites are hosted with them and will contunie to be.

However, for this year and the future I wanted to see if I could find a better solution for all the parties involved. So, with the help of a great and knowledgeable friend, Joshua Paine, we're moving the site onto a server at Linode. Joshua's throughing some nifty things at the site - so hopefully it will run even faster and be able to cope with a bigger demand.

You might have noticed that the blog has moved as well. It's now on Posterous at: http://whychristmas.posterous.com/ If you're reading this on the blog feed, that's not changing and will still be: http://feeds.feedburner.com/whychristmas

So please bear with the site in the coming days as there might be some downtime. But you can keep up to date with the blog or on twitter: http://twitter.com/whychristmas

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Happy June Rudolph Day!

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:47:43 -0700

If you don't know what a Rudolph Day is - well it's the 25th of any month! On a Rudolph day you can get aaed with planning for Christmas. Write your Christmas Card list, do some Christmas crafts or it's just a great excuse to play some Christmas Music at any time in the year! And this being the June Rudolph day it's an important one as it's also half way to Christmas! And Yesterday (24th June) it was the celebration of the Birthday of John the Baptist - who was Jesus's cousin. So whatever you do on your Rudolph day - have a good one! (and keep an eye out on the site - more about Rudolph day will hopefully be coming soon!)

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whychristmas?com on twitter

Tue, 26 May 2009 10:16:09 -0700

whychristmas.com is now on twitter! So please follow the site on @whychristmas If you don't know what twitter is, have a read of the twitter faqs!

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whychristmas?com on KidZui

Tue, 12 May 2009 03:53:20 -0700

whychristmas?com is now KidZui Approved. Kidzui is a special browser (or firefox addon) designed espeically with chidlren in mind. Rather than filter the Internet, KidZui’s founders built an entirely new one. There are over a million websites, pictures and videos in KidZui, all thoroughly reviewed by caring teachers and parents. And now whychristmas?com is part of it!

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Some Amazing Numbers!

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:08:31 -0800

2008 has been the biggest and busiest year for whychristmas?com ! During December 2007, the site had just over 1,000,000 (one million) 'hits' (pageloads) and about 212,000 visitors. So far in December 2008 (until about noon uk time today - 13th) it's already had over 1,400,000 (1.4 million) 'hits' and 246,000 visitors! The site has also used about 90gb of bandwidth so far this month! (The whole site is less than 20mb!) Those kind of numbers just blow my mind!!! Thank you to everyone who's visited and the more the merrier!!! (and thank you to my very kind, understanding and excellent hosting company!)

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CAN Competition Results

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:56:32 -0800

Back in November I posted my entry for the Churches Advertising Network Competition. The results are out and you can see and hear them on the CAN site. Congratulations to all the winners - sadly that doesn't include me :( I love the 'special commentation' for the Revd Taffy Davies, good one Revd Taffy!

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Podsafe Christmas

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:43:31 -0800

My Christmassy friend Ed Roberts is back with another year of wonderful Christmas Music over at Podsafe Christmas. It's a great daily podcast, which started today and runs all the way to Christmas, with some great Christmas music that you might not have heard elsewhere! So head on over, listen and subscribe to Podsafe Christmas!

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Churches Advertising Network Competition

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:43:37 -0800

This year, the UK based Churches Advertising Network is running a great competition to re-tell the Christmas story in 30 seconds! The network has made a couple of brilliant versions, including a football (soccer) match and a horse race to give you some ideas! Well I thought it would be fun to have a go, so here's my entry. I call it 'A Lesson in Seven Carols': The whychristmas?com Church Advertising Network 30 second advert I've also made a 60 second version (A Lesson in Eleven Carols!) just for fun! The whychristmas?com Church Advertising Network 60 second advert I'll keep you updated with what happens with the competition!

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It's our 8th Birthday!

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:56:35 -0700

Happy Birthday to whychristmas?com 8 today!!! Wow I can't really believe it... It really doesn't seem that long that I've been running the site! Time really does fly when you love Christmas ;)

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Translate whychristmas?com

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:25:16 -0700

You can now read any of the main site page of whychristmas?com in 14 different langauges! To translate a page, simply click the 'Translate Page' link in the gold bar and choose a language! The translation is done by Google Translate.

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Listen to my BBC Radio Interview

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:42:30 -0800

At about 11.50pm on Christmas Eve, the BBC rang me and I was interviewed about lots of Christmassy things for about 30 minutes! I managed to record it and you can now listen to it! Listen to my BBC Radio London Interview You can download the Interview here. I hope you all like it! Any comments gratefully received.

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BBC Radio Interview

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:05:26 -0800

I'm delighted to annouce that I've been invited to be on the BBC Radio London 'Late Show' with Kath Melandri on Christmas Eve Night! It should happen about 11.45pm UK/GMT, so that's 7.45pm EST and 4.45pm PST. You can find out more about BBC Radio London here and you should be able to listen live on the night, the more the merrier! I'll let you all know how it goes!

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podsafechristmas music podcast

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:20:17 -0800

Ed over at podsafechristmas.com has just started the shows for this Christmas, brilliant!!! I'm listening to show #1 as I type now!!! This podcast really will get in the mood, so go to the site, subscribe to the feed and get Christmassy! There's also a Facebook group for the podcast that you can join! Thanks Ed!

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whychristmas on Facebook!

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:12:33 -0800

There's now a Facebook group for whychristmas?com! Very exciting, the site's gone all social networky!!!

So if you've been to the site and you're on Facebook, please join the group and tell your friends!

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Disney Christmas Competitions

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:33:43 -0800

Disney have got three Christmas photo competitions up and running with some nifty prizes! So head on over and upload a picture or vote! Sacred of Santa Photo Content Christmas Moments Contest Outdoor Decorations Contest

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UK Organised Elves!

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:41:10 -0700

A new Christmas forum has opened at: organisedchristmaselves.co.uk It's a spin off from Organized Christmas (where the forum has closed) and will be run by a fellow Brit! You never know, you might see me there, or you can find me over on the Merry Forums as 'whychristmas'.

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whychristmas?com now in the Merry Network

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:37:47 -0700

I'm also very please to announce that whychristmas?com is now a proud affilate of the Merry Network! I really look forward to making the web a more merry place with the help of all the other members of the Merry Network!

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