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The Sound Of Muzik
What can I say about first impressions at the sound of muzik? Well, it has to be the first post I read there entitled “Look At Me! I'm A Hack...er” which had me gaping at the screen open mouthed from the first sentence. Could hacking a site really be this easy thanks to google? If you want to know more I suggest you pay this site a visit and read this post. Second impression, the disclaimer notice, laugh? I nearly cried.
It was a little difficult working out when the weblog started from archives; there were some entries made in January 2004, yet the typical first post was in November 2004. Since he seems to have been posting most consistently since November, I shall assume for the record this was when the blog was born. To be honest, from first look at the design I was expecting your typical blogger content, if that first entry on hacking through google had not caught my eye I might easily have walked away had I been your random visitor. If there is a weblog worth a second look, it is this one. Muzik writes very well, with wit and panache, and he makes me laugh. He can write about the dullest subject in such fashion he makes it entertaining. .
The design is a standard two column blog template with a banner. Its clean, its easy to read, and doesn’t distract from the content. Its not the best I’ve seen, but its not the worst either. All the links worked, and it was relatively easy to navigate. The only real problem I experienced was the tagboard which was “experiencing technical difficulties”. When do they ever experience anything else? If there was anything I would suggest removing, it would be the tagboard, which are OK when they are working but a pain when they aren’t.
For some time I sat gripped by the content of this weblog. Its well written, its witty and humorous. The design lets it down a little, but this can be easily overlooked. When it came at last to rating this weblog I had a difficult time on my hands, normally a 5 rating is only attributed to websites that combine exceptional reading with a good design that works well with the site. Exceptional reading it has, and although the design isn’t mind blowing it is easy to navigate and read. A 5 it is..
This site was reviewed on 2005-03-09 by fembat.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
fembat felt that The Sound Of Muzik deserved a rating of 5.
Luckily, my visit to "The Sound of Muzik" did not
yield the results that I was dreading; that it would be dedicated to a horde of smartly dressed children who have heartfelt, yet somehow nerve-wracking songs about coming of age and a love-struck nanny to
whom they can sing them.
Thankfully it also was not about that
unbearable Muzak that is so popularly heard in dental offices while undergoing procedures that are almost as excruciating as the melodies.
What I did find, was a rather amusing collection of rants and anecdotes that are well written and presented in a simple layout that allows the reader no distractions while browsing the blog. The author has a talent for drawing the reader into his stories and for generating a laugh with most of his posts.
In addition to the lively posts, "The Sound of Muzik" also plays host to several comical links ranging from bathroom etiquette to "Save Toby", a site dedicated to taking donations to save the life of a bunny facing a future on a dinner table. I was a little disappointed to see that there was not much information about the author himself, however. When I checked the "100 things" link to see what I could discover there, it did not work which was slightly frustrating to me.
Despite the fact that there really wasn't anything unique about this blog's design, I felt that the content of "The Sound of Muzik" was interesting as well as funny and holds a lot of future potential pending some minor 'sprucing up'.
This site was reviewed on 2005-03-09 by ThatWickedWench.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
ThatWickedWench felt that The Sound Of Muzik deserved a rating of 3.75.
2 reviewers gave The Sound Of Muzik an average rating of 4.3750
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