(248) Living the Dream. Bryan Appleyard, chess, Blogs begun in March 2006 and big time Blogging... at The Times!

(Permit me to explain this coincidence by noting that I put up this Blog in March 2006 and gave it the original title of ´Living the Dream´. I only altered that to ´Snapshots´ in October 2025.)

My Statcounter showed that at 7.20 a.m. on Feb 15th 2009 someone in Tokyo had put

Chess Dream-A 

into a search engine.
The 2nd and 3rd hits were of my Blog. But the 8th was -

Thought Experiments : The Blog: Living the Dream

- [翻译此页]It's as if she has awoken from a dream, a rather pleasant dream, ... (Why couldn
't it have been chess, where I might have turned my obsession to account, ...
www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2008/07/living-dream.php - 27k -
(The Link is now defunct.)

I was intrigued and followed the link to discover Bryan Appleyard´s Blog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Appleyard 
I had no previous idea that he was a Blogger. 
Five hours later on February 15th 2009 I jokingly sent him this e mail in which I pretended annoyance -

Sir!
I note a Blog entry of yours of July 18th 2008 headed
Living The Dream.

You have stolen the title of my Blog!

I shall write to The Times...

Disgusted,Cartagena


The next day I actually looked at The Times on line and saw an article headed 
The guide to the 100 best blogs: Part One but with no clue as to the author's identity.
I clicked on it and saw it was from the previous day ́s Sunday Times under the heading

Most Read.

And the author of the piece was Bryan Appleyard himself -

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/
article5725644.ece  A guide to the 100 best blogs part I
(This Link is behind a Paywall now.)
...   ...   ...
Appleyard says at his Blog that he began it in March 2006.

I also began mine then.

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