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Evil Pixie offers the perspective and opinions of a “wife, mother of one, geek wannabe looking for a life!” Read into that what you will – there is an audience for this kind of blog, that’s true, but whether or not others will be interested in it is another matter entirely.



The design is a bit of a nightmare, honestly, although in it’s defence it doesn’t look like many of the blogs of today. Instead it looks like so many of the sites of yesteryear, the mid-nineties, a time when links were all buttons with a coloured border suggestive of a link. The paragraphs all too often flow into a single stream, and the choice of colours makes easy browsing more difficult.



The site’s content is reasonable, although an acquired taste. There are plenty of touching moments, although this reads like a Robin Williams script; perhaps too sentimental for most tastes. But that’s fine. This site has it’s audience and I don’t think much else matters.Evil Pixie

Excellent blog. One of the better group blogs I have ever seen. The design is great, the content better. Each post is very good and enjoyable, and is even somewhat deep.



I thoroughly enjoyed this one folks, do not miss it. fumbling towards ecstacy

Even though this is a personal site, it got classified as humor because all I did was laugh, laugh and laugh some more.



The first thing I noticed when I got to the site was a little quote below the rubber duck that said:

If you do not like them, I have others.

I don’t know exactly what that is referring to, but I think it is rubber ducks.



The author posts daily for the most part. They are just little blurbs into his life. And if nothing happened that day, well he lets us know. He writes his posts as to be funny. Even if the topic isn’t funny, he makes it. My favorite thing that he said was:

The Power Rangers Movie – Do I even have to say how good this movie was!?!



This is probably because I, too, liked this movie and think that it is really good.



At the end of each of his posts is what he calls Quote of Now. These are random quotes, made up? I don’t know. All of them had me laughing. At one point while reading the site, I stopped reading the posts for a couple minutes and just skipped back (archives) and read Quote of Nows.



Design is very basic. Nothing fancy and it looks like a lot of sites that are out there – just a color change. But that is ok, because he wants you there for the posts, not the design. So do as he wants and go check out his posts as you will not be disappointed.

Three Eyed Duck

The design at AtariGirl is suitably in keeping with her obvious interests; the logo is exactly 80’s console, and the pixelated graphics continue the theme of retro looks and squeezing as much code into a few bytes as possible.



The only strange part is the list of favourite Nintendo games in her bio. Nintendo? Didn’t they have something to do with the death of Atari (my history might be off, of course).



Retro gaming is remembered with nostalgic overtones, but it is worth considering for a moment why it is that the previous generations of games are so loved.



They certainly don’t compare graphically to their offspring, but the most important reason for their continued success is their playability, and the continued enjoyment that players take from console antiquity. Sure, they looked poor on the whole, pixelated graphics and a handful of colour, but there was heart there that even the most glamorous of modern games lack.



By now I hope that you have derived my point, and are on your way to the site.Atarigirl

Upon first glance, VerseGuru gave

me the impression that it might be

rather mundane. The design was

nice enough, with easy navigation

and nifty buttons, but the first couple

of weblog entries were not exactly

attention-grabbing.



Upon reading further into the weblog,

the author redeemed himself with a

plethora of interesting links and

information. I spent a lot of time (at

least an hour) checking out these

links, finding new thing after new

thing that I bookmarked for later

reference (including his site). A

major plus was the fact that he made

descriptive comments about each

link, so I always knew what I was

getting into, or if I should bother

checking them out at all. The weblog

entries were still splattered with

some random blurbs about things

such as garlic and the wonder of

bullet points, but there was enough

tech talk, cool links, and interesting

matter to pull the weblog through.



Several of the navigation buttons led

to unfinished pages, which was a bit

of a disappointment. Backing out to

the main index page, I felt as if I had

been led to the end of the website

rather than the beginning. The

weblog page definitely seemed like

the hub. I liked the fact that the

weblog archives were listed by

quarter rather than by the typical

month or weeks.



VerseGuru is a must-see if you are

technically aligned and you want to

spend some time checking out

some fresh and interesting links.

With time, I feel sure that the author

can round out the unfinished parts of

the site with more worthwhile

content.VerseGuru