Yay! Those wonderful people who do that magic technical stuff have fixed Dollymix comments! Robyn wasn't lying when she said we bribe them with licorice, but suddenly wave a few strawberry laces about and the comments were fixed like magic!
Do feel free to tell us exactly what you think about anything we're scribbling about. Although, you do get bonus points for being opinionated without being needlessly bitchy. Disagree with us and others as much us you like, but there will be no meanness in the comments on Dollymix. If you really want to bitch at us, that's what email is for.
You may have noticed that Dollymix comments aren't working at the moment.
The Dollymix monkeys are tinkering behind the scenes as I type, with chisels and hammers and all sorts (we pay them in licorice) so the comments should be working again soon.
In the meantime, if you want to sound off, just email me and Sian, and you can follow us both on Twitter, too.
From next week, myself and Robyn are taking the reigns as co-editors on Dollymix and we can't wait! You might remember us from guest editing last year. (And hopefully you found us interesting and amusing enough then to want to stick around now).
For those of you who don't know me, I'm Siany and I'm a London-based freelance writer. I'm the brains behind the interior and style blog Domestic Sluttery so if you have any questions about painting your house and buying cushions, let me know. I'm also redrafting my first novel over the next couple of months so you might get to hear more about that. You can also read more of my ramblings over at my personal blog Sianyland.
In the meantime, I'll keep you on top of any lady news I think you might like to know and all the fun stuff I find lying about the interweb. You can also follow me and Dollymix on Twitter and if you have any questions or there's anything you want to tell me about, just send me an email. See you next week!
In December and January here on Dollymix you commiserated with me over toxic female friendships and the curse of PMS, and you outright LAUGHED at me over my embarrassing childhood celebrity crushes, but apparently I'm a glutton for punishment because I'm BACK and very happy to be here.
At the moment I'm writing over at Domestic Sluttery with Sian, and at Trashionista, maintaining/neglecting my blog at Orbyn.elsewhere, working on a series of novels and short stories, oohing and aahing over my iPhone, marvelling at the tap that spouts sparkling water at my new job, and spending 30% of my time constructing slalem-like exit strategies for the field mice that my cat keeps bringing home.
And now this! So watch this space for exciting ladynews and if you want to get in touch, feel free to email me or follow me on Twitter.
All in all you've been a wonderful bunch and I shall miss trawling the interweb and the inside of my brain for you! Do come over to my blog or follow me on Twitter if you fancy some Robyn action.
'Scuse me, lady. Do you gots a blog? Could you spare some time on Tuesday 24th March to publish a blog post about a techie chick you admire?
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate women excelling in technology.
The initiative, set up by Suw Charman-Anderson, blogger and social software consultant, is urging 1,000 bloggers to pledge to post.
So far 556 bloggers have signed up.
"Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines."
There's more about why this is happening and who Ada Lovelace was over the jump.
At 2pm today Dove.co.uk will premiere their new short film, Intuition, which aims to broaden women's judgments of each other.
In the film, women are shown footage of other women they don't know, and are invited to comment. After making this film Dove commissioned research into women and the compliments they received:
15% of women never receive comments about their appearance
19% only rarely receive them
6% of women only hear negative comments from their mothers
92% of women admit they take comments they receive to heart
Check out the film over at the Dove website, which will be the latest in the Dove film series. There's already a brilliant one called Evolution showing how a perfectly pretty woman is made up and PhotoShopped to look "commercial ready".
Isn't this fantastic? It's the Cheryl Cole Commemorative Plate, complete with brilliant quote about friendship. Of course it's not real - it's a mock-up by those cheeky Lipster types, but if it were real I would buy it.
Coolio slags off English women in Celebrity Big Brother.
He told Tina Malone that English women get drunk and will "go with someone" they don't even know. Tina Malone said: "I think a lot of English women need to be p***** to f*** with no inhibitions."
But those pesky asterisks draw a veil over her true meaning. She might have said "potato to filibuster" for all I know.
This is 'I Would Take the Pain Away', a song recorded by Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's 18-year-old daughter.
Bakhtawar is currently a student at the University of Edinburgh. Apparently Bhutto encouraged her daughter's musical pursuits, and in 2007 Bakhtawar met P Diddy. 'I Would Take the Pain Away' is dedicated to her mother, and the video features footage of Bhutto at an election rally, shortly before she was killed by a suicide bomber.
I wish I had the presence of mind to write decent, timely end-of-year review blog posts.
But I don't.
Somehow, despite my best intentions, December is a very solipsistic month where I'm constantly rushing to catch up with social events, gift-buying, and errant scraps of wrapping paper.
The closest I come to annual hindsight during December is the feverish counting up of my remaining days of leave.
This year I managed a vague letter to 2008, but the authors of the blogs I regularly read have examined the past year with far keener eyes and much better penmanship.
So please allow me to share with you my personal top 5 blogs reviewing 2008.
Yay! Those wonderful people who do that magic technical stuff have fixed Dollymix comments! Robyn wasn't lying when she said we bribe them with licorice, but suddenly wave a few strawberry laces about and the comments were fixed like magic! 
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