Tagged as: Blog
Aug
30
Alright alright, that was a lame title considering what it’s about. This is just to note that I just hacked a couple of my plugins so that they don’t display me or my information anymore.
For example, in the recent comments in the sidebar, it was showing my comments, but I have removed that so that now it will only show comments by people other than me.
And then for the Stats page that is displayed, I have decided to only let it show information that is unrelated to me. Hopefully that will give some better statistics for you to see on what is actually popular with other people rather than just with me!
Tagged as: Blog
Aug
23
Jos at NoDirectOn (that’s ‘no direct on’, not ‘no direction’) thought that I should do this. It’s a real short one in which you describe yourself using a template of 7 words that start with the letter ‘P’. All you do is fill it out, link back to whoever tagged you and then tag others. I don’t do these things all that often, but it’s nice to be thought of so I’ll give it a go.
Passion - God, family, friends, fun
Purpose - Much more than the average joe
Pursuit - A life that is in line with what I believe
Position - Sitting. Always sitting.
Pummeling - Rude drivers. Pummeling is a funny word to use here.
Progress - Doing alright, doing alright. Not doing so well on not repeating myself, though
Personality - Honest, realistic, slightly sarcastic
Usually you’re supposed to tag people, but I think that I’m just going to leave this open-ended. If you want to do it, go for it and let me know! I can add you later and we can pretend like I tagged you in the first place.
Tagged as: Blog
Aug
17
So I finally replaced the favicon for my website. I suppose that it’s been on my TODO list but at a low priority. So low that I didn’t even remember it. Someone bringing it up will definitely bump that baby up.
So I decided to replace the favicon that was either
- A piece of poo
- A faucet
- A faucet of poo
- The letter P
- The road representing the path that the wong way is
Obviously everyone thought it was the last choice. In any case, I went for a little different approach. Now even though I’m no pro at creating images, I was still able to make one and put it up (as I said in Favicons).
This time I went for a couple of arrows. At first I was going to put multiple arrows going one way and a single arrow going the other. However, it looked pretty junky when I converted it to a tiny picture. So I decided that enough with the nasty favicons, I’m just going with something simple. So there you have it, take it how you will. At least it doesn’t look like a piece of poo anymore.
Tagged as: Blog
Jul
30
Web logging. Weblogging. We blogging. Oh yeah we’re blogging!
Why do we do it? Why do I do it? It’s such an interesting phenomenon. People have been writing in journals and diaries for years and years. But those always seemed to be meant to be secret. Along come computers and the Internet and all of a sudden there are people who have a desire to write things in a completely public forum. What is the attraction? I know that I have met people who have asked just these questions.
So why do I do it? Well I think that a large attraction for me is to be able to freely express myself in whatever way I want. I can say something and not be graded or judged (okay I guess that you could judge me in some ways) based on it. I am able to say what I want when I want. I can rant about the guy that bugs me or I could talk about the small pleasures of life. Some people have their radio shows, others have their newspaper columns. But for the average Joe, what public forum is available to express the joys and outrages of life? Aren’t our opinions as worthy (if not as well voiced) as those more famous opinion expressers?
Rory over at Clean Cut Blog has a Group Writing Project that is intended to allow many people to write about what their absolute first rule of writing is. I was reminded of it after reading Shelly’s post Fishing For An Audience.
So after thinking about my reasons for even having a blog, I realize that I’ll only do it when it is interesting to me. That seems rather obvious, but it very accurately describes what I do with this blog and why I do what I do. That is why this blog is not like others. Hopefully that is not why it’s not the most popular blog on the Internet. I mean, I’d like to think that what I am interested in has some appeal to other people.
Anyways, although there are many many good blogs out there and the popular opinion is that they should focus on a particular area, I think that I like to keep this blog a place where I can show people how I go my own way. You know, the wong way. And each time I write a post, that is what I keep in mind.
Tagged as: Blog, Wordpress
Jun
16
And now presenting…
favorite posts in the sidebar!
Courtesy of the plugin that I used for my sitemap (as described in A Sitemap For You And Them), there are now the top (for now 10) posts listed in the sidebar. “Popularity” is a rather arbitrary thing to decide, so my popular posts are based on a calculation using the number of views and responses. Sometimes this means that the most viewed is popular and sometimes this means that the most commented is the most popular. Is this useful to you?