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Watski's World
Watski's World - "The day to day mutterings and observations of a 31 year old serial thinker with far too much time on his hands." This is what we see first on this generic Blogspot navy blue template. The white lettering on navy is not too bad if one is going to read one entry. But as I read virtually ALL the entries, (the blog has only been in existence for a little over a month), I began to get a headache from it. And the "daily mutterings" comment is about all we can find out about our author until we read further.
But this is where the fun begins. I read the most recent entry first, which at the time of my review was July 3, 2004. I immediately identified with his humorous take on technology and recognized a kindred spirit.
I saw that this was a new blog, so I began at the beginning and read through all the entries. I discovered along the way that our hero has been lately out of work, looking for work, finding work, and is now waiting for his new job to start on July 12th. (Good luck!) He writes on various and sundry subjects including: his job search and employment agencies, politics, gardening, football (being a rank Yank, I don't know if that means Rugby or Soccer. Or come to think of it, some other sport altogether...), and his hilarious misadventures with his new cell phone in serial form. I had a ball.
He is articulate and funny in a cheeky British sort of way, and is a joy to read. I am insanely jealous that American English has no corresponding word to "posh". It seems such an all-purpose word that one could use on so many juicy occasions to poke fun at those who take themselves too seriously. But I will just have to muddle along with "snooty" I guess.
I especially enjoyed the entry of June 21, 2004 where he has a conversation with himself and his mind on why he is losing it. Read it. And he painted a picture of Nottingham that I won't soon forget, as it has thoroughly displaced my rather romantic notion of the place. I think I especially enjoyed this blog because he did give me a little taste of British life from one of it's proud citizens.
I hope he keeps writing even after his new job begins. I'm giving this blog a 4.25. The only reason it didn't get more points is that it is very new, and I really could not enjoy the template he has chosen. In my opinion it is an obstacle to his entertaining writing.
This site was reviewed on 2004-07-05 by yetzirah.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
yetzirah felt that Watski's World deserved a rating of 4.25.
Watski’s World is little more than a digital diary where Watski records the events of his life and the thoughts in his head. With the only navigation options on the site being ten ‘recent entries’ links, the archives, and three links to outside sites, the first-time reader has little to go on in the way of a description of the blog other than the subtitle: ‘day to day mutterings and observations of a 31 year old serial thinker with far too much time on his hands.’ Thus we are left to wonder what Watski the serial thinker actually thinks about and we must jump right in. A look into the archives to find his first entry on June 11th, 2004 at least hints at what Watski’s World is all about, as he basically admits that he’s got time to burn and the internet is a great place to burn it.
As it turns out, he might be called an everyman’s philosopher, though I use the term ‘philosopher’ loosely. His entries are rather prodigious and touch on everything from his gardening to his plight as a tech-challenged man in an increasingly tech-dependant world, and there are undercurrents in his writing, let’s call them implicit admissions, of a general incompetence which he seems to relish. Watski is English and many of his entries involve football (soccer) in one way or another. There’s also a recurring thread involving his employment situation (or lack thereof) and, as previously mentioned, a thread focused on the challenges of the technology-challenged.
The writing of the entries rambles at times, but Watski has a good habit of not straying too far from the topic he starts with, though the blog itself doesn’t focus on a specific theme. The writing is good, but it failed to draw me in and I found that the insightful comments or observations were interesting but few and far between and sometimes it was difficult to keep my attention focused on what I was reading. However, in the more recent entries Watski seems to be developing a more focused voice and a knack for amusing the reader. The blog is only a month old and if Watski can further refine his digital voice, Watski’s World could be a very entertaining, if light, read.
This site was reviewed on 2004-07-05 by thenomad.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
thenomad felt that Watski's World deserved a rating of 3.
"Watski's World". (Day to day mutterings and observations of a 31 year old serial thinker with far too much time on his hands.) Those were the words written at the top of this blog.
As I entered the blog (which was very fast in loading),I was greeted with a very dark background. The blog is hosted on "Blogspot" and in spite of the darkness , it was very clean and crisp looking.
To my disappointment, I couldn't find any link etc. to tell me a bit about the author. However, from reading the entries, I did discover that the author is British and likes football. Upon reading the posts, there was one in particular that I found impressive. It read as follows::
This blog is pretty simple fare, as you may have noticed from the technology shyer article, or maybe the general layout of this site. Lets face it, its not going to win any prizes for design and layout. Id like to promote this as being intentional, some sort of minimalistic blog style movement that ive accidentally founded. I could go all out and say that the words are all i need, man. But its none of the above. Its because i have no idea about how to design it any other way than on the template provided. Please dont think that i do know how to and that this is all i managed to come up with. Although i think it does the job. As regular visitors (of which i have 5 - hello family!) will maybe notice, i've learnt recently how to link things to the site, as you will note from the array of sites listed down the right hand side. If i start showing off with the new thing ive learnt and start to list lots of links that makes it look too dodgy then please let me know. There is much more to blogs than pretty pictures, graphics and code that only the tech snobs understand. My hope is that anybody who visits this site of their own volition likes reading the stuff eminating from my mind rather any graphics that they might find, and comes back to visit again occasionally because of that. Thats bearing in mind that your only reason for visiting isnt because its the only site the warders let you have access to.
In my opinion, you couldn't find more truer words on another blog/website. It was very well spoken /written. I give the author props for this.
The author has made it clear that he is just starting to learn coding ect. But as the author stated, it's not pretty pictures or coding etc. that make a blog. It's the writing . In the other entries, the author wrote about a new job he would be starting. He talks about gardening, new shelves he has to put up etc. The blog is just basically about the authors every day life. I even found that in some entries, the author writes with a bit of humor. The blog hasn't been around for very long as of yet, but I did enjoy reading the entries that were posted.
As mentioned, the b/g is a dark background, but very clean and crisp. The entries are posted in the middle, with several links to the right hand side. However, I did run into a few problems. There were some spelling and grammar errors. Most of the links are not in working order. But the author has also stated that he recently learned how to put links on the page, so I am sure he will fix this problem in the future.
Upon conclusion, Since the blog is of a fairly new nature, I can't give it a higher rating than a 3. Therefor, because this is the case, and because of the non-working links etc, I am giving it a rating of a 2.5
This site was reviewed on 2004-07-05 by darkangel_00.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
darkangel_00 felt that Watski's World deserved a rating of 2.5.
3 reviewers gave Watski's World an average rating of 3.2500
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