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First Article Still in the Submission Queue

Yes it seems the effective cycle time for article submission is a little longer than advertised. In the meantime I'm drowning in other people's suggestions - have yet to find the relevant taps to turn off!

We are starting to see some seasonal impacts on the music searched for and listened to - Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and the Sugar Plum Fairy in particular are doing well but also our instrumental version of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Around Halloween it was Danse Macabre and the Marionette's Funeral March that came to the fore.

November has seen a transformation in the visitor profile to this blog with humans probably outnumbering Robots at last. So we will be operating an even tighter editorial policy for the inclusion of other people's material - for example I decided that you wouldn't really want to read about the effect of music on plants!

The November results also show that we have double the normal share of sophisticated visitors using Firefox at 16% and that the proportion of our visitors coming from Google is now substantially higher than average which in itself is at the highest levels seen for the last year. We also have more than our fair share of Mac and Linus users visiting us.

Have a good weekend!

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