As you may have noticed, I have changed the layout and some of the artwork for this beast. Hopefully this will work better for some of you that were having troubles with the old format.
Let me know if you have any problems.
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How do you chose blogs to follow/read?
I always find it interesting to discover why people choose the blogs they follow and/or read regularly. Â In my case, I have three general criteria, the order of which is subject to mood and whim. Â I suspect that others have very different criteria.
One of my criteria is humor (even unintentional). Â I am a big fan of those who can poke fun at their day to day lives and the oddities of modern life. Â Given that I have a writing style that is stiff, formal, and pedantic – you might say I enjoy reading the opposite of what I write. {*grin*}
Another criteria is decent writing skills. Â By that I mean that sentences are well formed, nouns are used appropriately, and verbs exist. Â I am old enough not to enjoy blogs written in the style of texts or matchbook stenography school adds. I.e., if u cn rd ths, u cn mk $.
Yet another criteria is true geekiness or nerdiness.  Given I have spent most of my  adult career involved with science, technology and software development, I have a deep fondness for most things geek.  I am not, however, a big fan of “gadget of the day” blogs.  I have entirely too many gadgets already.  I would like to see the development of a master gadget – one the size of a modern cell phone with a pop-out full size keyboard, an IMAX sized holographic screen, the computing power of a supercomputer, and 3 days of battery life.  Oh, and it should weigh little and cost less. Got one for me? {*grin*}
A final criteria is regularity. Â I like a blog to have at least a couple of entries per week. Â Otherwise I tend to loose my understanding of the style and skills of the author. Â That continuity is critical for my enjoyment of most blogs, since they build on a sense of history and shared disclosure of experience.
I have been reading and following blogs since they first came of age, but until this beast have resisted the temptation to have a public non-technical blog. Â Now you get to suffer for my lack of will power! Â The list of blogs I follow and/or read is constantly changing. Â When I find a blog that I like, I usually then investigate the blogs the author follows. Â My investigation is somewhat trivial, consisting of reading the last three posts and then making a yea or nay decision to follow or add to my reader list. Â Any time the posts from any blog seem to be less interesting over a week or so, it then gets pruned from my reading list.
How do you chose the blogs you follow/read?
Start of the end
This is nothing more than an initial blog post to see if I have a clue about how this interface works. Pretty much content and thought free (somewhat like my mind most days).
Just to establish some cultural bookmarks here:
USC just lost to Oregon State – let the battle for number one resume.
The lawn mower is giddy-up-gone – so guess how I’m spending the weekend?
Fall approaches – when will the first freeze arrive?