Month: January 1970

This is a pretty good site. Took me a second or two to see that the image at the top was an x-ray. Liked the layout; nice and simple. I clicked on the area where Tim has some other blogs linked and I saw he posted descriptions of the blogs with some additional information. I’d never seen anyone do this on a personal site and thought it was creative for him to do; it’s like a mini Weblog Review section.



Now the blog …Tim’s posts were fairly short with ideas, links to other sites or just funny observations:



Party Packed: 270 miles, a birthday party, 3 weddings, and a street dance. What a hell of a saturday. Today, I recover.



Good Deal? I just bought gas for $1.38.



The most important question of my life: What makes a better happy hour. Free tacos with ok drink prices or $.25 tacos with great drink prices?



I went to look at the archives and was given a list of posts to click on to read his bleeps. At first I didn’t like it, but then later I liked it because I got to scroll through the titles of his posts.



For the most part, I liked his site because of his creativity. It’s great to find a site where the person goes the extra mile to put out something a bit more original.Salted Wound

White text on a black background. Strike one. Not only because it’s hard on the eyes, but because it’s just plain boring. Still, I ventured on, but much to my dismay, the content of the site wasn’t much better. When you look up “trite, whiny teenage girl’s weblog” in the dictionary, this is what you find. It isn’t bad, but if i jumped blindly into any Diaryland or Geocities teenage webring, i’m sure I could find 20 websites strikingly similar to it. I’m sure this girl’s friends enjoy reading this, but I’ll have to pass. Besides the fact that it isn’t particularly creative, it isn’t innovative, nor is it even engaging. The design is ultraminimal. Actually, scratch that. It’s incredibly plain. Here’s one of the more interesting excerpts:



“i got this *gasp* $180 skirt.

i don’t know what possessed me, but i had to get it. mommy helped me, but it was so worth it.”



I guess if you’re really into other people’s shopping finds and school days, this could be your cup of tea. For everyone else, it isn’t worth the effort it takes to read the text and smiley faces every other sentence.Persnickety

I’m not too fond of the of the gray font over the light bluish background. I find it a bit hard to read so I had to tilt my laptop screen to read the site a better. The author, Atika really likes anime since she has a pic of a character posted on her site, and talks

about it in some of her posts.



The impression I got after reading her site is she has a lot of energy. Seems like she’s been traveling a lot lately and spoke a bit about one trip she recently took to London where she went to stage school and talked about her singing teacher:



I’m in such a good mood now coz the signing teacher Kate Young who has taught Robbie Williams and Emma

Bunton (baby spice) to name only a couple, is interested in me!!! Wow! I probably sound all egotistical now but it’s actually true (I didn’t beleive [sic] it at first either) She say’s she’s going to help me get an agent!

Yes, I am deffinatly [sic] in a good mood ^_^



I wasn’t totally into her site because it was a bit too teenager for me. But if you like anime and a teen, then you’ll might like this site.

the crumbling

Thou Art God gives you very little to

go by: no information about the

author, very little (if anything) to say

about the links in each log entry, and

no entry longer than 40 or 50 words

in the first place. There are no

images or graphics other than the 10

little buttons leading to various other

weblogs, and there was not much to

look at, do, or read about.



So why would one want to visit such

a place? If you want to follow

random links blindly, if you want to

read ever-so-short movie reviews (“I

saw Legend of the Drunken Master

last night, and it was a very cool

movie. The fight scenes were

awesome. “), or if you are a hardcore

minimalist, then you may love this

site.



Personally, I couldn’t get into a

weblog that offered no info about

where I was going or whose words I

was reading. With no context for the

website, I was unable to leave

feeling or knowing anything different

than when I arrived.

Thou Art God

The stresses of the A-Level Tests. You have to feel sorry for those who have to takes these tests because it’s obvious and clear that it’s stressful to take them and then to see the results. Alex, who had to go through this along with thousands of other kids from the UK, spoke about how much of an impact these tests have on his life and where it will lead him.



Alex talked a lot about this test results and what he hopes to study later on in the future. In one lengthy post, he said he was reading a book on American and British politics and posted a quote which was geared towards the current US President, George W. Bush which was stated by comedian, Lily Tomlin: 98% of the people in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy 2% that get all the publicity. But then – we elected them. I found that as a pretty accurate statement, I living in US, hehe.



Despite the fact there weren’t any archives to sort through — his site’s going through some changes — he did have some good stuff today. One thing I liked a lot which he said as a result of his tests: [it’s] the most important day of our life so far, the next 3 years of our lives will be decided on the events of today and it seems unfair that some will succeed where others fail. Even thought he’s talking about his results, you can pretty much apply this to any life changing moment, like graduating, starting a family, getting married or anything else which has a lot of meaning to you.



His site is nice and simple with just some links to other weblogs and cute little “Yoshi’s Land” icons which was done by a fellow friend of his who altered his site a bit saying, “It’s influenced by two major interests of my life at the momment [sic], Dawson’s Creek (the title font) and Yoshi’s Island (the various little sprite images).”



My only beef with the site is it would have been nice to see some archives. Over all it’s a pretty good site.

The Secret World of an Average Guy