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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

“through myself” is a decent weblog doing all the right things a weblog should. The design of the site was nice, though a little narrow spacially. I had some trouble deciphering the links in the image map at the top of the page, but that was perhaps a result of my monitor.



The weblog entries were generally thoughtful and well written. Nothing really hooked me, but I was able to at least “get an inkling of what life is like” through the author’s eyes, as the statement under “Shiznit” suggests is one of her goals.



I was a little unsure of the difference between her weblog and her “lately” page, which seemed to contain more interesting comments. Also, I was misled by what appeared to be graphical buttons in the image at the top of each page.



The author is obviously experienced enough in weblog writing and site design to know what makes a weblog bad, and she avoids it well. I was happy to see her commenting on the fact that she has grown out of her stage of “KooL” spelling.



It’s worth a look.through myself

First off, I would not have been able to see this site at all if I didn’t change the ‘C’ in ‘calvin’ in the address to a lower-case ‘c’.

Calvin’s Corner started with a disclaimer. This disclaimer immediately put me on the defense, before I even entered the site. Being told that I shouldn’t complain or be offended by the design was quite humorous, considering the main site popped up in a non-resizable window that wouldn’t fit the content without scrolling left and right. As the disclaimer stated, I would have happily clicked “on the ‘x’ in the top right corner,” but alas, I have no ‘x’ in my top right hand corner. In fact, I have no ‘x’ in either corner, being on a Mac.

Nevertheless, I started reading through the weblog, which seemed to be a collaboration between Calvin and Randy. The weblog entries were not very interesting, mostly being short comments about recent events.

I went to the “About” section, realizing I had no Back button to get me to the front again. Having to command-click to navigate is a pain. I left the site and slid over to my PC to give it a shot, hoping that the site had been designed to work better in Windows.

Unfortunately, the PC window was the same: too small to fit the content, not resizable, and no nav buttons. I didn’t even bother checking out the rest of the site.

Maybe I should have listened to the disclaimer.Calvins Corner V3

I began to review this weblog in earnest

until I discovered that the author did

it very succinctly for me. Behold:



“It’s basically nothing more but a list

of ramblings about the crap of my life.

The only reason I’m keeping it personal

is because 1) If I posted it here, no

one would understand half of what I was

saying. 2) Lots of ppl from RL have

started to visit my blog and that makes

me paranoid of what I write”



The random jibber-jabber/thought ratio

leans WAY towards the jibber-jabber. It

is as if the author is having a frenetic

verbal conversation with herself where

every neural impulse is deemed worthy of

publication.



Graphically, the site is really very

slick. I’d go so far as to say

beautiful. The anime graphic is fun, the

navigation is minimal, clear, and easy.

The white text on the dark blue

background is a bit hard to read.



My advice for this weblog: before

typing, consider if it’s worth reading.



fin.Through Seraph’s Eyes

The title says it all. But, it doesn’t say enough. Truth be told, an addition of the word “Lousy” before the title of this blog would serve well as a warning to prospective readers. The language within the entries of this blog does universally qualify as foul; the content of the entries is so deeply mired down with vulgarities that individual posts are difficult to read, harder still to digest. The content itself is typical of a journal: Daily events, gay humor, and bits of disturbing personal insight (Example: The post of 10.17, where the male author remarks that his 16 year old daughter’s boyfriend is “hot”.) Readers must wade through the drivel to discover the better entries, of which there are few.



FoulMouthBitch utilizes a standard Blogger template; not much to look at, but practical. It views equally well in MSIE and NS, though one might not wish to view at least one of the photos which the author has posted. The archive links do work, yet the author has failed to provide links for all archived pages. Also, there is no background information on the author and no external links save one ring located at the bottom of the page. Without more insight into the author, the reader is left to draw conclusions based solely upon the author’s entries. These conclusions will hardly be favorable.



FoulMouthBitch earns its score based on entry content, style of writing, presentation, lack of links, and all-around poor taste. There are better blog to read — Thank goodness! foulmouthbitch