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So, I was wondering how many of you actually blog. If so, why, and what?
Such as, I keep a weblog to let my friends and family know what I'm up to while at college and now, what I'm doing in Japan. I also keep a photoblog for no real reason other then to show off cute photos me of. My Linkblog is just a venue to show off odd links I found, usually off other linkblogs.
http://www.joshuazimmerman.com
Then again, who here think blogs are just loads of sh*t? Some sort of online self masturbation. Do tell.
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Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Then again, who here think blogs are just loads of sh*t? Some sort of online self masturbation. Do tell.
Yes*. Except when you're letting friends and family afar know how you're getting on.
* yes, blogging is loads of sh*t.
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Originally posted by Sherwin:
Yes. Except when you're letting friends and family afar know how you're getting on.
That's pretty much what my two are (one in Danish for family and friends at home, one in English for friends in other places).
Although I would say in my case "blogging" is a gross exaggeration. I'm lucky if I can get my act together enough to make one entry a month these days... I originally made the blogs so I wouldn't have to write mails home, because I absolutely suck at writing mails home - but it turns out I'm just as bad with blogging... *sigh*
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My blog: Everything Apple
A recent entry: Dual G5 2.4 GHz PCI Express nForce4 blade announced
Continuous Computing Corporation has announced a dual G5 blade server which uses Apple's U3H Northbridge (aka IBM CPC925) controller. This server is called the LINUXbladePPC20A.
The design supports dual G5 PowerPC 970FX 2.4 GHz CPUs, a 1 GHz HyperTransport bus, PCI Express, and up to 8 GB DDR400 ECC memory, all in a blade server form factor with a total maximum power utilization of under 200 Watts.
This represents the first G5 board available which supports the new PCI Express interface, and it uses the nVidia nForce4 chipset popular on the PC side. Apple does not yet support PCI Express, but one might suspect they will adopt it in 2005.
It's also nice to see that the cramped blade design can handle 970FX CPUs of up to 2.4 GHz. Apple has built 2.3 GHz Xserves for Virginia Tech, but they are a custom configuration not (yet) available to the general public, and they are used with specialized cooling equipment.
ie. I don't bother with blogs about myself. Apple stuff is much more interesting. I post every few days, and sometimes more than once a day.
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Originally posted by Ois�n:
That's pretty much what my two are (one in Danish for family and friends at home, one in English for friends in other places).
Although I would say in my case "blogging" is a gross exaggeration. I'm lucky if I can get my act together enough to make one entry a month these days... I originally made the blogs so I wouldn't have to write mails home, because I absolutely suck at writing mails home - but it turns out I'm just as bad with blogging... *sigh*
Yeah, I set up blogs for a bunch of my friends. I believe 9 in all. Its been about 8 months and only 2 of us actually post any more. Some people don't care to blog, other people just have their parents read my blog to find out what they're doing. I hate my life.
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Originally posted by Ois�n:
That's pretty much what my two are (one in Danish for family and friends at home, one in English for friends in other places).
Nothing in Chinese?
Some (most?) of you reading this may know of Faye Wong, a Chinese singer. She�s very good; a little like Bj�rk sometimes, but still Chinese.
She's about the only Chinese pop star whose music I have the least bit of interest in. I also like Bj�rk, despite how out-of-it she seems most of the time.
P.S. I just ordered the 2046 DVD, which stars Faye Wong.
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No, I don't blog. Mine is kept on my Mac only.
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Nothing in Chinese?
Japanese? ????
(I guess MacNN doesn't do Japanese characters)
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Before the Internet did people paste their diary pages to telephone poles? I'm just curious as to why people think the world cares what they have to say?
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Don't blog and don't read them. I don't need to know about Jackie and how she spilled her strawberry ice cream cone on the cute guy she has a crush on and which she now feels like a clutz.
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Originally posted by hayesk:
Before the Internet did people paste their diary pages to telephone poles? I'm just curious as to why people think the world cares what they have to say?
They care about as much about blogs as they do about cranky posts in MacNN forums.
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Nothing in Chinese?
Hehe... no, not at the moment. Maybe after I go back, I'll make one in Chinese for the friends I have here, but for now, I can just talk to them face to face...
Some (most?) of you reading this may know of Faye Wong, a Chinese singer. She�s very good; a little like Bj�rk sometimes, but still Chinese.
She's about the only Chinese pop star whose music I have the least bit of interest in. I also like Bj�rk, despite how out-of-it she seems most of the time.
P.S. I just ordered the 2046 DVD, which stars Faye Wong.
Yup, she's pretty much the only one I listen to as well (of the Chinese pop scene, that is). Chinese music with obvious influences from both Bj�rk, Tori Amos and the Cranberries (all of whom I love) is an interesting mix to me.
I haven't seen 2046 yet... Another movie I should get my ass together and watch. I mean, it's not like we don't have no less than two copies of it lying around in the flat...
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Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
(I guess MacNN doesn't do Japanese characters)
MacNN has nothing against Japanese, works fine (as long as everybody uses the same character encoding, which can be done easily by everybody setting it to "automatic selection").
Proof: 私の名まえわオイシニ。(Yeah, I have no idea if I wrote that right or wrong, it was a pure guess at the grammar and mixture of Kanji/Hiragana/Katakana, and I had to spend a few minutes figuring out how the Japanese input system works first... But right or wrong, it still shows that Japanese works just fine on MacNN!)
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mike.cosentino.name
i have had the domain for a while and never really had all that much to put on there, besides some drawings, and flash work i do once in a while.
i then started posting blog entries. it is mostly for my friends and family (stray people come across it once in a while). what i have been up to and pretty much stuff i find interesting that i think others might want to read.
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No, to make it worth anything it would be too personal for the internet. Making it less personal would turn it into one of a the million cruddy blogs no one reads.
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Originally posted by hayesk:
Before the Internet did people paste their diary pages to telephone poles? I'm just curious as to why people think the world cares what they have to say?
Who cares what William Shakespeare has to say. Or T.S. Elliot for that matter.
It's not what they have to say � it's how they say it. I read this one blog which is utterly hilarious. Bloggers are essentially writers. Sometimes you run across a blogger/writer who you find entertaining.
Isn't that the same reason I stay here at MacNN? I read this crap because I find it entertaining.
A blog works the same way.
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Blog? Me? No.
Not a blog per se, but see 'Gibor' link in sig, if you care. Started it in high school, now it's just sitting there, really.
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nope. don't blog. got better ways to spend my time.
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Well, if you ever find yourself with a lot of free time you could spend it looking at sex blogs. I don't know how my friend found them, but he once directed me to a bunch of blog devoted to people's dumb sex lives.
Before blogs people just complained to other geeks via online forums. oh wait...
?????????Lets see if this actually shows up as Japanese this time. That or MacNN hates me.
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Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
?????????Lets see if this actually shows up as Japanese this time. That or MacNN hates me.
I'm guessing the latter.
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I photoblog. I tried to blog about design for a while, but I really liked the idea of just showing off things in the world around me.
-Link in my sig.
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I blog. I whore for my blog in my sig.
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Yesh.
http://www.ExposedBrain.com
It's a collective... myself, a room-mate, and friend of ours.
I primarily write in a day-by-day journalistic fashion, with the occasional interludeshift into ideological self-examination, and [visual] artistic presentation. It's something of a tool for keeping personal record, giving others a taste of what's afoot, and further developing my skills as both an articulator and a writer [creative, or otherwise... if there is such a thing].
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i have a xanga blog that i post personal/boring stuff on. not many people read that one, except for my school friends now dispersed far and wide. then you have my site (see sig) where i post up whatever i shoot photos of. it gets random visitors, since i post photos in various places on the web with links "back home".
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Originally posted by Axo1ot1:
I blog. I whore for my blog in my sig.
Don't we all though?
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The problem isn't MacNN. The problem is that Safari doesn't handle the text encodings intelligently. If you manually choose something like UTF-8 on the reply editing page, then the text will show up in the thread correctly, provided your browser then correctly guesses UTF-8 to be the correct encoding. That's hit-or-miss at best.
Right now, the best solution seems to be using Firefox, which automatically converts the characters into HTML entities. They show up correctly regardless of the encoding. You can also use a service provided by the app UnicodeChecker in Safari via the Services menu to achieve the same result.
Back on topic: I've been keeping a blog, also in order to let my friends and family keep up with my activities in Japan. What software do you guys use? I've been using NanoBlogger, and find it pretty convenient.
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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I used to blog with stories, etc, but then I realized nobody really cared, so i add a picture to everything I blog
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I keep a blog about art direction. It's got fair number of regular readers.
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Originally posted by dampeoples:
I used to blog with stories, etc, but then I realized nobody really cared, so i add a picture to everything I blog
Pictures is what draws in the people, the words are what sends them away. Which is why I try and not put anything political on my webpage, unless its really pissing me off.
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Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Well, if you ever find yourself with a lot of free time you could spend it looking at sex blogs. I don't know how my friend found them, but he once directed me to a bunch of blog devoted to people's dumb sex lives.
Before blogs people just complained to other geeks via online forums. oh wait...
?????????Lets see if this actually shows up as Japanese this time. That or MacNN hates me.
Yeah i have read some of those sex blogs, they are for deffo written by 30 year old bearded virgins, with too much time.
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God, I hate you MilkmanChris. No real reason. I just hate you.
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Yeah i know we have had this conversation before.
However in a previous life i was that Milkman.
Whats your claim on my name
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Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Pictures is what draws in the people, the words are what sends them away. Which is why I try and not put anything political on my webpage, unless its really pissing me off.
Are Words inherently politikal?
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Originally posted by milkmanchris:
Yeah i know we have had this conversation before.
However in a previous life i was that Milkman.
Whats your claim on my name
I was so here first. You're just leeching off my fame here on MacNN. Which is why I have hired a hit man to kill you. Thats right. Kill you. Except I only spent $5 on him, so he may not be too good.
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I shall be awaiting your pint sized assasin
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Originally posted by milkmanchris:
I shall be awaiting your pint sized assasin
He's at least four to five inches taller than that! Give me some credit.
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