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From the moment I entered this blog, I felt a warm “family-like” feeling about it. As I began reading posts, it appeared as if my intuitions about the blog were true indeed.

The Sisters are actually fairly humorous when you attempt to visualize the stories being told in several of the posts. After a long, busy day at the office, it’s a refreshing read.

I really enjoyed Sue’s post about her “watermelon mishap” because I could actually visualize myself doing exactly the same thing in that situation.

However, I feel that the design leaves a lot to be desired. I mean, it’s very practical and has a clean appearance but maybe using lighter colors and adding a header graphic would do it some justice. Overall, I would recommend this blog to others.

Sisters’ Weblog: It Bloggles the Mind!

I know this is a blog, but since the author’s name is WDKY, I immediately thought ‘What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger’ was a blog for a radio station. I then noticed this is a London blog, and since I assume their radio station naming conventions are a little different, I figured out (along with looking at the bio) that it isn’t a radio station, just a middle aged guy that is having troubles being single.

I’m never crazy about the white or colored text on a black background, but in this case it works well. I liked the boldish text with the justified margins, mainly because of the increased line height of the lines of text, which makes it easier to read.

The best part of the blog is the writing. I chose to read “What Women Want?” expecting to get riled up at sexist comments but pleasantly surprised at some wandering, unresolved thoughts. At least the guy is honest, he doesn’t have all the answers and he’s okay with that.

The post on “F*ck duties and taxes” was again a surprise. I expected a political rant and instead got an experience of buying a $10.95 t-shirt that came out to $67.12 with the shipping charges.

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I couldn’t help but think that I had heard of this site before. When I first got to it, I knew I had seen it before but I couldn’t remember why. Then it occurred to me that I had reviewed this site, and sure enough I did back in January of this year.

The header is still the same for the most part as before, only this time it is spiced up for Halloween. In fact he now has multiple headers based on which month it is. He has headers for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines Day, and is working on one for St. Patrick’s Day.

The blog is mostly about things going on in his life. This includes, but is not limited to, movies, traffic incidents, previous jobs and more. I really got a kick out of his post about slow drivers as that seems to be an issue I am dealing with recently.

Some things have changed ever so slightly since I last visited. It turns out this man of the cloth now carries a gun. I am still trying to figure out why he got a gun other than he could. I searched and searched, but did not find an answer to this question.

The design is still the same as I remember it though I could be wrong. It is just a simple two-column layout which looks like a modified word press template. One thing that did bother me was that in clicking the “previous entries” link, I was only given 4 or 5 entries. This resulted in a lot of work for me with regards to clicking since the author posts quiet frequently. Even when I selected the individual months, I was still forced to go 4 entries at a time. This was annoying.

The writing has taken on a more humorous tone to it which is nice. Since the first review I did, I have seen some subtle improvements which have made me change my thoughts on this blog. I am now going to give it a shot in my daily reads to see if I actually enjoy it on a daily basis, or if I just enjoyed reading the past 10 months of archives.
The Church of Dysfunction

The first thing I noticed when I got to this site was the Google ad at the top of the page. Soon after that I noticed that this is another Blogger blog, but not with one of the Minima layouts (or Scribe… I don’t like that one either) so I guess I can’t complain too much about that. As I skim through I notice a few other instances of ads that aren’t even blended in very well. This isn’t a great start, but I’ll try to look past the first impression for a second.

The posts are informative and range from features Blogger releases to the newest version of Firefox. They aren’t extremely interesting, and they’re full of links that I suspect may be sponsored, but they do let you know about what’s going on. Some of the spelling is a little off but I’m willing to look past that.

The template is, as I said, a Blogger stadard, but not one of the extremely overused ones. There aren’t many links aside from the ones in the posts, and the ones that are there are mainly to particular posts in this blog.

There are a few extras, most of them being ads or statistics plugins. There’s what I assume is a counter at the bottom, and there’s the I Power Blogger logo. Other than that, it’s pretty empty.

If you’re into technological things or South India (since there is a post or two about the local stuff as well), you might want to look into this blog. Otherwise, you might just end up getting overwhelmed by the ads and links and not really know where to go from there. It’s definitely not a bad blog, and I may end up checking it out again. I have to give it a 3 out of 5, because it won’t exactly be something everyone can relate to, but you should at least check it out to see if it appeals to you. Who knows, it may be a keeper.

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I knew right away what I was going to get with this blog by its name. Women’s Bioethics Blog is a pretty self explanatory name. For those of you who haven’t guess what this blog is about, let me give you another clue: it’s about women and it’s about bioethics and it’s all in a blog format. Oh and for those of you who don’t know what bioethics means: The study of the ethical and moral implications of new biological discoveries and biomedical advances, as in the fields of genetic engineering and drug research.

When I first got to the site I saw a pretty standard blogger template with a customized header. Finally someone got the fact that you can actually modify the blogger templates for your own needs. The blog is kept minimal so that you focus on the content. By this I mean that she doesn’t have all the hundreds of things in the side bar; instead there are just links, previous posts, and archives. At the bottom of the page she has a couple of other things, but nothing out of the ordinary for a blogger.

The posts are a bit to take in if you are not familiar with or interested in this topic. Being a sociology minor, I found a lot of her posts insightful and wish it was around while I was in class. While the posts themselves seem to jump around a bunch from topic to topic, there is the underlying principle of women’s bioethics.

This blog gets 4.25 from me because it has stayed its course. I was afraid this was going to be another advertising blog, but thankfully it was not. The posts are informative and some are very interesting. Personally I cannot see myself looking at this blog every day, but I now have a good tool in my toolbox for when I need to brush up on women’s issues. I suggest everyone check this blog out at least once so they can learn something they didn’t know already.
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