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A big shout-out to anyone keeping track of the Earth's magnetic poles.

This Isn’t a Music Blog, But… Something incredibly exciting is happening with the top 40 right now. Last week, the track Rein Me In by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean reached 19 non-consecutive weeks at number one. In doing so, it surpasses the 18-week record set by the Frankie Laine single I Believe…

This Isn’t a Music Blog, But…Something incredibly exciting is happening with the top 40 right now. Last week, the track Rein Me In by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean reached 19 non-consecutive weeks at number one. In doing so, it surpasses the 18-week record set by the Frankie Laine single I Believe in 1953. The last time anything threatened to come close was during the first half of the 1990s with Bryan Adams and Wet Wet Wet with soundtracks from popular films.gavincameron.co.uk

With no further noise reduction techniques since Dolby C, I'm tentatively saying we aren't going to see the launch of Dolby D.

It's Edinburgh Fringe Festival o'clock. Let's play bingo.

I think I'll remake The Odyssey with a main character who suffers with travel sickness.

New blog post: Taking My Own Proofreading Advice.

The Layover Formula: Taking My Own Proofreading AdviceFor those keeping track, I've received no further badges from WordPress at present. I'll issue updates on that story as I receive them. Meanwhile, I'm still very much on the writing kick from the start of this month. I've previously made allusions that what I'm writing is part of a fantasy series published under a pseudonym on a reasonably well-known platform.gavincameron.co.uk

Every so often, I think about the primary school teacher who tried to tell me that a unit called the 'centilitre' didn't exist, and today is one of those days.

I'm currently pondering how the BBC's flagship dancing show has a title inelegantly amalgamating Baz Luhrmann's film 'Strictly Ballroom' with the predecessor show 'Come Dancing', and yet TV viewers have simply accepted this for more than 20 years without comment.

There are people queuing up to dish our their criticism of the BBC trailer with Romesh Ranganathan, but here's my 10p: At the end, when Anton Du Beke is told to 'bog off', there was a missed opportunity to have these words spoken by Tracy Beaker. They're synonymous with the character.

New blog post: The Wild West of WordPress Badges – Supplemental

The Wild West of WordPress Badges – SupplementalAfter posting yesternight's entry about WordPress badges, I then received the one below for publishing ten consecutive posts at the same hour of the day. By telling you about this at an unusual hour, I wonder whether this will, in turn, generate further badges. I'll let you know either in a later entry, or the usual Tuesday update.gavincameron.co.uk

New blog post: The Wild West of WordPress Badges.

The Wild West of WordPress BadgesFour weeks ago, I received a notification from WordPress that I'd been awarded an Achievement called Palindrome Post. I'd never heard of such a thing, so I took a closer look. This is given for a post with at least 100 words where the word count reads the same backwards as forwards. This could be 121, 1,221, 12,321 or a similar pattern.gavincameron.co.uk

We all know who the new Prime Minister is, but I'm waiting to see who becomes First Lord of the Treasury.