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Today is the day that I’m finally on WordPress and free from the tyrannous shackles of Blogger’s incompetence. Took me long enough. I think the first thing Bloggers learn about blogging (apart from how much money isn’t in it), is that they should have never signed up with Blogger to begin with, which is always followed by their second revelation: that switching platforms mid-blog is a sharp and terrible pain in the...
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Today marks the annual parade of the twin forces of Annoyance and Distrust as they come marching through the streets and avenues that connect our lives. It is April 1st – April Fool’s Day, and I’m not over-exaggerating when I say, “Don’t Trust Anyone.” Certainly, don’t trust anything you read on the Internet today. The web has a long and messy history of April Fool’s jokes and with gags...
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No essay today, but I did begin my dabbling in changing the look and feel of the site. If you direct your looking balls up to the top of the screen, you’ll see a new logo. It didn’t take but a few minutes to create, as you can probably tell by looking at it. Still, it’s a baby step towards a complete site redesign for what I’m calling Coquetting Tarradiddles 2.0. I’ve been feeling nostalgic for the old BBS...
Read MoreI’m posting this a little early today, but it’s important. My sister called me last night to ask me about something called iJingo – The Center Of The Online Universe. Apparently, a family member has bought into this new venture and told her about the amazing opportunity she could have to get in on the ground level of the next Google. I was interested to hear what she had to say, being as I hadn’t heard anything...
Read MoreI recently came across this post from the blog The Rest Is Still Unwritten, and I hated it immediately. I’ve nothing against the blog in question, nor with the gentleman writing it – but I do take issue with his bizarre thesis that using Twitter will make one a better writer. The basic gist of the post is that, due to Twitter’s 140 character limit, its users will learn to be more concise and immediate with their verbiage...
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Kristian Bland
Writer
Occasional Geek
I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
