Oh no! Writers block at DP Web Development

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Well here I am, back in England and enjoying the sunshine in my back garden.

It’s nice to be able to work outside! Typing away on my lap top. Creative juices flowing, buoyed by the fresh air and warmth. Energised by the sun beaming down on my face, tanning nicely as I write. Pure poetry oozing from my body like sweat.

Except I’ve got writers block. Somewhere in my head there is another stellar blog post. It’s just that I can’t find it. Damn!

This could be the shortest blog post on record!

And you know what…there’s no point in forcing it. The more you sit there trying to force an idea the harder it is. Better to walk away and come back. Do something different. A change of scenery is often all you need. So they say. Walk away and come back.  Go for a walk around the block.

It’s not uncommon. Everyone has writers block from time to time. Even the best. So I’m not alone, I’m in good company. J K Rowling famously had it. And now so do I. Two good examples.

It’s just so annoying. It’s there I can feel it.  Just out of reach. Like that scratch right in the middle of your back exactly where you can’t reach and if this happens to you a lot (like it does me) invest in a back scratcher. It’s a life saver.

So I look around the garden for inspiration. Mmm the grass needs cutting again… Those weeds need sorting out….I wonder if I should get rid of that bush in the corner….I can hear the neighbours, I think they might be drinking. I wonder what they’re drinking… I’m feeling thirsty now. I wonder what drinks I have in the…wait, keep focused God dammit. I’m meant to thinking of something interesting to write about. Maybe a drink will give me energy. Or maybe I should withhold and it can be a reward when I think of a subject.

I do that sometimes. When faced with a task my mind starts wondering until I find an excuse to do something else. Like go and get a drink, check my Facebook….ooh my friend enjoyed her chicken soup last night….my Twitter account…my friend is wondering what to have for lunch. Is it that time already. I’m hungry now. Wait.Focus. Something will spring to my mind. Any moment…..

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May be not.

Now a whole morning has nearly gone.

And that is the problem. Call it what you like but that is time wasted. I should have gone and done something else useful rather than staring at this blank screen. I do have a vice. I admit it. Everyone does it from time to time. I procrastinated and wasted time getting drinks (they were nice though). The trick is to keep it to minimum. And for the love of God I am trying and, let’s be honest, I am succeeding in small steps.

Ok it’s time to get proactive. I’m going to nail this. I‘m going to write the best post you’ve ever seen.

After I‘ve been for a walk.

DP Web Development presents 21 facts about the internet

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  1. Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam
  2. Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939
  3. The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released in 1993
  4. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month
  5. Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of Internet users (75%).
  6. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com
  7. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
  8. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users
  9. Every 60 seconds 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on Social Networking site Facebook
  10. 6 billion hours of videos are watched every month on YouTube.
  11. To copy the entire internet to a disc, it would take over one billion DVD’s and if you wanted to save it on the more powerful Blu-Ray discs it would take about 200 million of them.
  12. The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005…and you thought it had been there forever!
  13. Did you know that domain names could be sold at high prices? The most expensive domain till date, ‘sex.com’ was purchased by Escom LLC at $14 million, in January 2006.  Another was ‘business.com‘, which was sold to eCompanies for $7.5 million in 1999.
  14. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
  15. The Web was invented in 1989 by a British physicist named Tim Berners-Lee
  16. The supposed reason for Google.com’s sparse homepage was that its owners did not know HTML well enough that even the first versions of the homepage did not contain the submit button. The only way to make Google start searching was to hit the Return or Enter
  17. By 2014, the value of web hosting is forecasted to be more than 73 billion dollars.
  18.  Over 17 billion devices are now connected to the internet
  19. Amazon.com was formerly known as Cadabra.com
  20. Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
  21. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.