Do you guys want to see the new site?

So basically I think the new site is ready, minimal at the moment but ready for posts, I still need to do some drawings for the design of the site and also have to add a lot of content.

I could probably tinker with the site for months before it's properly finished, but man that's just to long to wait, but then again, maybe I should hold back. So should I share the new site or hold off until it's a little more complete.

What should I do?

New Site - Still haven't overcome the Learning Curve

So it's been awhile, lots to catch up on but that probably wont happen until I get comfortable with the new site I'm making.

I've finally settled on Wordpress as the new platform. I found it hard to get my head around Drupal and Joomla, Joomla is very commercial, templates seemed very cookie cutter and I found good guides were hard to find. Drupal, well their lack of backwards compatibility scared me a little. So I decided on Wordpress.

It may not have some of the features the other two may have, but so far Wordpress seems to be able to do a hell of a lot. Loads of support, loads of plugins and a whole bunch of templates to download.

Though I still haven't overcome the learning curve even after a week of exploring it, just to many options to explore. Give me another week and hopefully I'll have a preview to show y'all.

Traffic Plumets and I quietly sob in the corner

My traffic has plummeted over the last week or so, mainly due to Google re-indexing my blog and dropping the rankings for each of my blog posts, maybe it'll correct itself maybe not.

It's tough coming from 1000 page views a day to a couple hundred if I'm lucky, but hey, it just means I'll have to change my ways or come up with some better stuff for y'all.

What I think caused it is I'm a huge social bookmarking junkie, the only problem is I'm not to social when using services like Digg and Propeller. As a result I feel the link juice that was passed on from my submissions to those sites no longer cuts it with Google and my blogs rankings have dropped

Or it could have been the change to the layout.

Just have to wait and see what happens, though what I've learned from this is to not put all my eggs into one basket, diversify my traffic sources and to try and not force it, if it's link worthy content, it'll happen naturally.

And that's the thing, what you find here on this blog can also be found on many other blogs, so expect to see loads more original content on MPL along with the best paranormal videos and news I come across.

Paranormal Reshuffle

Hope y'all like the reshuffle, I've been meaning to do it for awhile, still got a few tweaks here and there to do and a little culling of what I don't need, but for the most part it'll stay the same.

I know there's been a lot less posting around here lately and it's mainly due to creating original content for the blog, I've been saying that for years now and well, that's what it takes for me to get warmed up, years lol.

Well, I've been working on a series of drawings for something that will hopefully be very useful, as well as a web comic and more videos. Hopefully I'll have them start appearing on here in a months time.

Other than that I hope to be back to my normal rhythm in the next few days, winters getting me down.

Paranormal Rest

Was gonna go full steam ahead tonight, been a little occupied lately. Working on a few things that hopefully everyone will enjoy.

But until them remember to check out Our Paranormal Boards, moving along quite nicely.

If you've got any photos on flickr you may want to add them to the Scary Creepy Weird group I've got set-up there.

Also if you have a paranormal event you want to promote them check out my Paranormal Promotion post for details.

Well, see y'all in the new dawn.

UFO Photography Practice

I figured for me it would be hard to photograph UFOs, so I've started practicing.

Below are photos from my second Plane Spotting session.

So first off I got me a crop duster, dusting the hills just across the harbor.


I can't believe how much detail there is in the next two photos, never expected to be able to capture images like this with my camera, especially of a commercial airliner. I think these are of a Pacific Blue flight.

My Paranormal Life now has a forum!!!

I've been thinking about setting up a forum to go along with this blog for awhile now, I don't have a credit card and probably never will, so that was kind of a block, plus it looked like it would cost a few hundred to start it up.

But luckily I've found a free solution that looks like it should work out well. Seems like it has unlimited bandwidth and space and that's what a lot of the other free forum options don't seem to have.

I've called it Our Paranormal Boards and I've kept it pretty simple for the time being with two main boards, the General Discussion board which I hope to be the hub for pretty much everything and the Paranormal Videos board where you can post up interesting paranormal videos, you can even embed youtube videos directly into the threads.

The other thing I've done with it is add a blog section, so if you're a paranormal blogger and want a board on this forum to share your latest post, make announcements, gain links etc the choice is yours, just hit me up with a reply in this thread here and I'll set you up.

So feel free to register to the forum and start posting to your hearts content, I'll be posting a lot of things on the forum that I won't be posting on this blog, stuff that I don't have the time to look into more.

A bit blogged out

Sorry things have been a little slow around here, I'm feeling kind of blogged out, see how things go I may have a burst of energy, usually gets me up to speed again.

Oh and please excuse all the ad posts, I got hit with an extra amount of assignments to do, I usually like to follow up such posts with 3 or 4 on topic ones, just haven't had the energy lately.

What topics do you like, poll ended

The What topics do you like to see most on MPL? poll has ended and here are the results.

There were 37 votes in total.

Ghostly Tales - 14
Close Encounters - 8
Creature Comforts - 2
All of the above - 13

"Ghostly tales" is the winner by a margin with "all of the above" close in on second.

I think with the results I'll try and post more ghostly things on here, I guess it's what people come to expect from a blog tittled "My Paranormal Life", I do consider the other topics some what paranormal as well so I'll keep posting about them also.

Thanks to all who voted.

Index for Todays Paranormal Blitz

That was actually fun, thought I'd get more out but I hope to pick up where I left off tomorrow.

Here's what I posted today.

About to Blitz - What the blitz is about.

Is that a ghost in the window? - Ghost video, seems a little dodgy.

UFOs in NASA photos. - Strange object on a NASA photo.

Jim Morrison - Celebrity Ghosts - Ghost photo of Jim Morrison.

Missing Lake Champlain Monster ABC Footage - My plea for help in finding some lake monster footage.

Demon Trash - Video of a cheeky little red demon.

About to Blitz

I hope... I just updated my Tourism Area 52 post with a two part video which shows the two entrances to Area 51, pretty informative.

With that I think I'm about to go on a blogging marathon, I have loads of bookmarks in my "to post later" folder that I feel the need to empty it, I'll see how it goes, some videos and stuff may need more looking into.

I'll follow up the blitz with an index post for it all.

On a side note I just heard the sound of ripping paper coming from my kitchen, it's 2 in the morning and I'm the only one up and it's freaking me out a little.

Well see y'all on the flip side.

Poles and Paranormal Media

So hopefully I'm back on top, been pretty sparse on posts around here the last week or so, I've been lurking in the background, touching up my various blogs, figuring out how I can improve and what not, pretty low key, I've been working on updating My Paranormal Media with all my images and art work that I've done for my blogs, just a picture blog really.

The What would you like to see more of on MPL poll has ended and the overwhelming support goes towards Paranormal Videos with 62% of the votes followed by Current Paranormal News with 28%. I'm gonna throw up another pole now which is What topics do you like to see most on MPL, if you'd like to vote the pole is in the right sidebar.

See y'all in my next post.

A refreshing non paranormal weekend

Had myself a great weekend under the sun by the local rivers and beaches, well Sunday was sunny, Saturday was a little overcast, still hot though. I think it was just what I needed, two days off in a row to call my own.

Got a few photos of my weekend, hope y'all like.

Bloggers Block of the Living Dead

I've got the meanest bloggers block at the moment, I have so much I want to post about that I end up not posting anything at all. Time to slow down, relax, maybe watch a movie and enjoy the sun by the river tomorrow. This place we are going to is one of the most beautiful places I know of and hopefully I get some good photos to share.

As for a movie, well I've been meaning to download Night of the Living Dead from archive.org for years now. It's public domain and perfectly legal to download and so are many other things on there, it's like a freebie basket full of hidden gems.

Not such a Paranormal Life after all

It's getting really hot down here in New Zealand, feels hotter than it usually is at this time of year, the silly season has taken its toll on my work life with most of my rostered days off being filled with shifts, though in the new year I'll probably struggle to get any.

It's left me with less time for this blog, but it's also left me with time to reflect on what I want to do with it, so hopefully when things settle down I can bang all these ideas out. I think my brothers house may be haunted lol, that should make for good viewing hopefully.

The poll to the left has gone pretty good, I asked "What would you like to see more of on MPL" and Paranormal videos is winning by a large margin, there's 3 days left to vote so if you haven't already give it a go.

I've added the Blogcatalog widget back to the blog, it's nice to see all the regular faces again, don't actually know why I ever took it off.

Anyway I'll be posting videos and such when I find good ones, but until the new year that's probably all you'll see.

Working 9 to 9 what a way to make a living

I was ready to go all out on a mega posting spree but after scrolling through thousands of head lines my eyes just wont stay open. I have the morning off tomorrow and thought I could stay up late and catch up on all the news, some good reads in there but they've ended up in my "to read later" bookmark folder.

I'm so feeling sorry for myself at the moment, working 9 to 9 each day is getting to me, but hey it'll all be over soon and I can enjoy my time again, then again it's the silly season and people make crazy strange bookings.

Seeyas in 5.

See ya in 6 days

Not much time to chat, just enough time for my other job, blogging that is. There's quite a few sponsored posts on the front page at the moment, sorry bout that, but if I don't complete the assignments, well I kind of get fired.

I usually follow up such posts with a few paranormal posts, but I'm just not having the time to search for videos and news, so expect to see loads of omnibus posts in about six days.

See you in 9 days

I won't be around here to often the next 9 or so days, I'll be working a lot and won't have to much time for blogging. Trust me I'd rather be blogging, just a lot of shifts to fill at work and not to many people around to cover them. So for the next week and a bit I'll be master chef, I hope I don't go all Gordon Ramsey.

Hopefully I can take this time to step back from this blog and get some fresh ideas and come back to it ready to roll. Knowing me though, I'll probably stay up late to post and suffer for it at work, no pain no gain for something you love right.

About some of the changes

Added a few things around here, I think I'm about to go a widget binge, I'd better calm down a bit.

I added a long over due About Me page, something a little more in depth than the default blogger one and I hope people get to know me a little better because of it.

I added a poll to the sidebar, I hope the results help me better know what people want to see around here, always good.

I also added something of a chat room feature, it's more of a shout box type thing, but I don't know, maybe people will be able to get some conversations going or something. Still in testing, I don't know what the full features are yet, what I do know is that it's listed on the service providers site so people who don't find the chat room through this blog can also access it from there, maybe be able to meet some new people or something.

Well that's that for now, check y'all later.

Rant to self, keep it Parainteresting

So it's been a little hard lately to keep things interesting and updated around here and I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's because of work, sometimes I feel like just planting some crops and living off of those, don't get me wrong though I like my job.

So I've been thinking "how can I make this easier on myself", it's already easy and quick but finding something from other sources worth posting about on a daily basis doesn't happen as frequently as I'd like, so I've thought of a few things that I can build up over time and back log.

First off, I've had a couple of people ask me about photoshop and I said to them that I would make some tutorial posts, that was a quite awhile ago and I haven't delivered, turns out writing instructions is a lot of work, though it is enjoyable and it's something I can build up in my spare time.

Secondly I'll be continuing my series of posts about Maori Folklore, most of which will include illustrations, there easy to write, but the drawings take time.

C - Taking more photos, getting more of my own original content on here and helping out others where I can.

There's one thing I'm excited about that I don't want to let slip, but best of all it's easy (the way I like it), easy on the eye and should be useful for anyone interested in the paranormal and will likely warrant a new blog.

This is more a rant to self, just to keep me on track and to keep things interesting around here, I think I make posts like this every 6 months or so lol.