Hey everybody,
It has come to my attention that my site is pretty darn basic. This is for two reasons.
First, I am using a template from Blogger. It's easy to use and means I don't have to learn anything (because I fear learning).
Second, I find it very inoffensive. I like basic colours, I like easy to read fonts, and it's not full of animated gifs and garbage. Yes, there are ads (and eventually those will pay off, so you have to live with them), but it really shouldn't matter how you view the site, it should look pretty much the same.
Next month marks the fifth anniversary of when I started this little endeavour and I feel that there should be something to mark the occasion. I feel that a milestone like that deserves a bit of attention, or something to commemorate the event at least. As I've only just realized how long ago that was, I haven't given this a great deal of thought yet so I don't know what it will be. But expect it to be huge! And by huge, I mean that I'll probably write something. Maybe take a picture. Of me. At our kitchen table. Like most of my pictures seem to be.
"Hey," you might say, "five years ago? Where are all those posts? I only see going back to 2009! You're a liar and a fibber and I shan't stand for it! You wait till the Senate hears about this!"
The problem is that when I started this blog in 2008, it wasn't exactly like it was today. It was an experiment that grew into something of a mouthpiece for me.
The grand experiment (for those of you that don't remember) was sports predictions. Since I only had about five regular readers back then, I wouldn't be surprised that you don't recall it.
Where did those posts go? I took them down a long time ago. Don't remember when exactly... but it was a while ago. Here's what it came down to - writing sports predictions was funny (it was) and it paid the bills (that's a lie) but I got bored with writing the same stuff over and over again. Plus, I started getting email and spam about sports related things. I barely have enough time for all the local lesbians that want to meet me, let alone try to figure out what the heck point spreads are (I think it's dirty too, but not in a way that made me want to continue research).
But I digress.
February 17, 2008 was the first post here (even though it's not here right now). I'm thinking a contest would be interesting... Thoughts?
PS - for those of you that were paying attention, I did change the colour scheme on the site. It used to be a light blue background and title text. Now it's a slightly darker blue! Good on you for noticing.
It has come to my attention that my site is pretty darn basic. This is for two reasons.
First, I am using a template from Blogger. It's easy to use and means I don't have to learn anything (because I fear learning).
Second, I find it very inoffensive. I like basic colours, I like easy to read fonts, and it's not full of animated gifs and garbage. Yes, there are ads (and eventually those will pay off, so you have to live with them), but it really shouldn't matter how you view the site, it should look pretty much the same.
Next month marks the fifth anniversary of when I started this little endeavour and I feel that there should be something to mark the occasion. I feel that a milestone like that deserves a bit of attention, or something to commemorate the event at least. As I've only just realized how long ago that was, I haven't given this a great deal of thought yet so I don't know what it will be. But expect it to be huge! And by huge, I mean that I'll probably write something. Maybe take a picture. Of me. At our kitchen table. Like most of my pictures seem to be.
"Hey," you might say, "five years ago? Where are all those posts? I only see going back to 2009! You're a liar and a fibber and I shan't stand for it! You wait till the Senate hears about this!"
The problem is that when I started this blog in 2008, it wasn't exactly like it was today. It was an experiment that grew into something of a mouthpiece for me.
The grand experiment (for those of you that don't remember) was sports predictions. Since I only had about five regular readers back then, I wouldn't be surprised that you don't recall it.
Where did those posts go? I took them down a long time ago. Don't remember when exactly... but it was a while ago. Here's what it came down to - writing sports predictions was funny (it was) and it paid the bills (that's a lie) but I got bored with writing the same stuff over and over again. Plus, I started getting email and spam about sports related things. I barely have enough time for all the local lesbians that want to meet me, let alone try to figure out what the heck point spreads are (I think it's dirty too, but not in a way that made me want to continue research).
But I digress.
February 17, 2008 was the first post here (even though it's not here right now). I'm thinking a contest would be interesting... Thoughts?
PS - for those of you that were paying attention, I did change the colour scheme on the site. It used to be a light blue background and title text. Now it's a slightly darker blue! Good on you for noticing.
Obviously the contest should involve readers *predicting* what your very first post was about. Except it's not really PREdicting since it already happened. Postdicting? Yes. That seems right.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, then on February 17 you could re-post the long lost sports prediction post from 2008 and see who came the closest.
Or, if you've erased the old posts for all time, you could promise to write a new sports prediction on Feb. 17 and we could all guess what that prediction might be. Which doesn't seem fair because you could just choose the winner and then write the post that they "predicted." We'd have no way of knowing.
Really you have too much power.
Please bring back the slightly lighter blue.
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