Category: old blogging

hmm. It seems that Grayblog has been nominated for an award in the Anti-Bloggies, presumably in the “most depressing weblog” category. And I probably could have walked it if I hadn’t consigned all the really depressing stuff to a dusty corner of the web where you can’t see it. Well, if the judges really want to see it, and if there is a real chance that I might win a prize, they had best ask me….although isn’t this just by popular vote? in which case, no tearful acceptance speeches for me.

Went out last night for a beer and met up with Paul F. Put the world to rights, and actually (hold your breath) cheered up! Well, a little bit anyway.

Blogger is not well, and I, for one, am worried. Blogger provides an excellent service – ok, it has its ups and downs, but overall, it’s pretty good. But I’m worried that if the service appears weak, people will switch to alternatives like Greymatter, or even Atomz Publish, and then the commercial future of Blogger will be *really* weak. I’m surprised that Ev didn’t see this coming – as a marketer, I hold to the basic tenet that if you have a good idea, some bugger will come along and do it better. The trick is to do it better yourself before they have a chance. In the case of Blogger, the “do it better” trick is to do it *and* make money.
But then, if even the big players on the web can’t make money, what hope is there?

I refuse to be drawn into a blogwar with rebuke.org. I am, after all, bigger than that. Besides, being “emotionally damaged”, I can do what the heck I like.

my college class for tonight has been cancelled, so I’m trying to rustle up support for a beer plan. Seems that nobody is up for it, so it’ll be another night in feeling sorry for myself unless I go to the bar on my own. ack. I hate all this – I wish things were as they were before, and I would do anything to make them so, in spite of what has happened.
anyway, I’ve been on a diet for three weeks now, and I’ve reached my target (lost one stone – being stressed out helps). So tomorrow I’m allowed to eat “normally” again (i.e. less than I was before, but more than I have been for the last three weeks). But, given the state of my appetite at the moment, I’m not sure there will be much difference.
And I promise, this blog will get more cheerful.

Vaughan has a technological nightmare.

and of course, if 46% of people have voted *for* something, 54% of people voted for something else. My weblog – an analogy for multi-party politics. Who’d have thought it?

inevitably, someone doesn’t like Grayblogzuki. tsk. Well, look, the idea came up in an AIM conversation between myself and Robyn – we both thought it was amusing (in a son of Godzilla kinda way), and I NEED cheering up, and the greatest share of respondents in the poll agreed. Now, I am a closet Godzilla addict (proper Godzilla – not the recent crap – I mean the old films with Japanese guys in rubber suits and sets made from Airfix kits), and since this blog is the new progeny of the old one, then the name seems both amusing and appropriate.
huff. I’m not changing it again. Final. As I said when I announced the result, if you want to continue calling this site Grayblog, go right ahead.
mutter. moan.

still trying to be cheerful. The weather is not helping.
One cheery thing – yesterday a whole pile of seeds turned up from a seed exchange I belong to – this may not seem very exciting, but for someone who (usually) enjoys plants, it is a sign that spring is on its way – and, frankly, this year it can not come soon enough for me.

TPL update: 7 points this week (only one match played) – total 607. For those new to this, TPL is a fantasy football league game that I play. I’m a member of a mini-league of people who know each other that play it, and currently rank about 8th or 9th out of 30 or so people.