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Not about food?

Published on November 1, 2009 in Miscellany and MetaBlogging. 1 Comment

Today is November 1st, the first day of NaBloPoMo, or National Blog Posting Month. Participants are committed to writing a blog post every day. This is not as easy as it sounds. I’ve done OK in past years, missing only a day or so here or there, but since I’m so thoroughly out of the habit of regular posting, it sounds like quite a challenge to get back in.

I can’t write about food every day. I don’t have that much to say about food. Do I have enough to say about anything to write something every day? If not, I’ll make something up. I have some overachieving online acquaintances who are again taking up the challenge of NaBloPoMo’s big sister, NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. Maybe I’ll be up for that next year. Maybe.

I am in Ohio for the week. I leave Friday morning for Albuquerque, NM, for my employer’s annual user conference. I’m looking forward to the trip. I’ll be teaching four sessions, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. Nineteen of us from the company will be there, and about 300 customers. Friday night keynote and shindig after is always fun, and the resort looks lovely. I think it will be a good time.

Facebook 30, Blog 0

Published on March 28, 2009 in MetaBlogging. 4 Comments

Since I’ve been doing Facebook, I don’t blog nearly as much. Many more people are “around” as Facebook friends, and any blog posts feed into my Facebook page as notes. This is fine for most people, but not so hot for people like my pal VegasJoe, who isn’t on Facebook that I’m aware of and misses me terribly when I don’t blog. Hi Joe! I’ll try to do better.

I’m also on a couple of mailing lists now where I do some of my writing, and much of it isn’t appropriate for my blog. But it still takes time.

Anyhow. We’re about to do Lights Out for Earth Hour. Tomorrow (honest!) I will post Vacation Story #3.

A Post! A Post!

Published on January 18, 2009 in Miscellany and MetaBlogging. 1 Comment

Bits reminded me over dinner last week that I haven’t been blogging much. I like to think I haven’t been internetting so much lately. I don’t know how accurate that is; I did spend more time than usual watching TV last week (I was at the parentals, and they have a great TV).

I have been blogging for over five years now. Even in the beginning it was hard to be diligent about blogging regularly. I’m on my 2nd blogging platform, and I blog on my own URL. But I’m not a blogger in the sense of an online journalist, or a subject-expert. I just write about my life. It’s more of an online journal than a blog in the typical sense.

I used to keep track of where my readers were coming from and how many I had. I haven’t messed with that much in the last couple of years. Maybe if I did, I’d be better motivated to write more regularly.

Opportunity for Redemption

Published on November 25, 2008 in MetaBlogging. 1 Comment

The NaBloPoMo coordinator has developed a new badge that says “I Blew It.” I don’t really like the style, though, so perhaps over the long weekend I will put my dubious grafix skilz to use designing my own.

However, she is offering a prize for the best excuse. THAT I will have to give some thought.

Oh NOOOOOOEEESSSSS

Published on November 14, 2008 in MetaBlogging. 3 Comments

I forgot to post last night. No prizes for me. :(

NaBloPoMo

Published on October 31, 2008 in MetaBlogging. 2 Comments

I’m going to do NaBloPoMo again this year. It’s good discipline. At the beginning of the year this year I initially signed up to do Blog365 (blog every day for a year) and realized before my birthday (1/27) that it wasn’t going to happen.

Heaven knows what I’ll come up with to write about every day. On the other hand, this is just the underachievers version of NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. Yeesh.

Are any of my blogging readers doing NaBloPoMo this year?

Comments

Published on July 15, 2008 in MetaBlogging. 9 Comments

I think I’m going to stop commenting on blogs. It’s all getting to be too intense. I misunderstand what people mean or I take things out of context or even when I do understand, I write something that pisses people off.

I will probably still say hello occasionally on my people blogs, but the MoBlogs? I think I’m done.

My Feed, #5

Published on July 11, 2008 in My Peeps and MetaBlogging. 0 Comments

Ah, number five. One of my favorite people blogs (vs. blogs about ideas or Mormon stuff). Joe in and Around Las Vegas, aka VegasJoe, writes a really cool blog that’s a stream of consciousness blend of text and photos of Vegas life as lived by real people, interspersed with links to fun YouTube videos, travel, and his beautiful granddaughter, E.

I found Joe when he found me. He either linked to my blog or found it at random and I saw he’d been there by his IP address. We swapped e-mails a couple of times (remember my unemployed days, Joe?) and found that we are/were both actually FoxPro developers - a very, very small niche. He liked my blog and some of my friends’ blogs and after almost five years we’re still together :)

What I like best about Joe’s blog is that it’s always surprising. He works for a company that has a huge convention center right on site. He posts photos of setup and teardown and sometimes of the shows themselves. His blog gives me a sense of being “on the scene.” His video blogs are also, to hammer the adjective into the ground, surprising. I’m always entertained and amused and often delighted by what he chooses to link. And anybody who can look at the unruly mop of hair on his beautiful, cheeky little granddaughter E and not be entranced has no soul.

Joe’s blog and his generous link policies have made him friends all over the globe. If you go to Vegas, look him up! But warn him you’re coming - I was there last fall, and didn’t give him enough notice, so we’ve never yet met in real life.

My Feed, #3

Published on July 6, 2008 in My Peeps and MetaBlogging. 0 Comments

I’ve met a lot of people online through ex-Mormon and New Order Mormon discussion boards. One of these, “The Folk of the Fringe,” is where people whose level of belief ranges from “recently released devout Stake President” to “hasn’t darkened a chapel door except for funerals in almost twenty years” have vibrant and respectful conversations. From the Lily Pad is Froggie’s blog. I first ran into Froggie over on The Fringe, and we still keep in touch very rarely by e-mail and over on another ex-Mormon board, The Foyer.

(Full disclosure: I am not an ex-Mormon.)

When I read blogs about people I know primarily from a fairly one-dimensional space (i.e., ex-Mormons), I learn a lot about them as whole people. We are all multi-dimensional; nobody is only “ex-Mormon” or “straight.” Froggie’s blog does a great job of showing all her dimensions. For example, she loves the outdoors, takes wonderful photos, and is a killer cook. If you visit the link, check out “Froggie’s Recipe Box.” Yum!

My Feed, #2

Published on July 5, 2008 in My Peeps and MetaBlogging. 1 Comment

This is number two in a series of posts about the blogs that are in my feed, and why I read them. I will write about the blogs in the order they show up on Google Reader and no preference or ranking should be inferred from the order they show up here in posts.

MikeandJohn.com is the blog of my friends Mike Karpowicz and John Hamer. John is a cultural Mormon; a writer, editor, historian and mapmaker. Mike is his partner, a software developer and business owner. Mike has never been a Mormon, but John’s interest has rubbed off on him. They are co-Executive Director’s of the John Whitmer Historical Association.

They are both great guys, smart and fun. And handsome! They are both just delightful to look at, albeit a little young (maybe that’s why they’re so beautiful). They both have great hair and neither exhibits any signs of encroaching male pattern baldness. I’ve met Hamer (why do I call him Hamer? He’s never John; always Hamer) twice; at the annual Sunstone Symposium last August in Salt Lake City, and for dinner in Ft. Wayne, Indiana on one of my occasional midwestern Mormon meetups. I met Mike for the first time at the Ft. Wayne dinner and I had a lot of fun talking with him about computer stuff.

John and Mike write separate and very different posts. John’s most recent post was a video that VegasJoe would get a kick out of - A YouTube video that’s an image montage of the “Nixon Now” reelection song. Mike’s is a photograph of SBBRPC 85 Pork Coating. John writes a lot about politics, while Mike writes about adventures - scroll down from the Pork Coating post to get a taste.

I read their blog to keep up with their interesting lives; which are very different from mine. They travel, they write, they have adventures. I, on the other hand, rarely leave my house. They don’t update their blog as often as I would like, but that’s not surprising, considering how much time they spend actually living their lives (vs. living vicariously through others).

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