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“Wow” is my first impression on opening up this page. It is graphically intense, and still loads like lightning, even though I am half a world away. A gorgeous picture of the Stars and Stripes greets me, along with well chosen font & background design which echo’s the main picture, but in grayscale. Nice touch!

Are the posts as good as the design? I start to read, and the story of a happy American family starts to emerge. I want to read more, find out about these seemingly design and web savvy people! Somebody in this family has taken an html class…

A really useful group of links tears me away from earlier posts, offering untold riches with titles like, ‘video, sound, pictures and interesting’. I am going a bit click crazy, following links in quick succession, and find myself on a site advertising light sabres. Ok, I’m definitely coming back here, this family has just become really really cool.

Back to the site, and I’m checking out more cool stuff, time to bookmark this site with my browser, because these guys have made a fan out of me.

Back to the blogging, and I find an interesting mix of socio political analysis, right inbetween pictures of a family birthday, which in my mind is great, it means that these guys are blogging about what affects them in life and a) they are not living in a fantasy world, and b) they’re real people too. I am starting to like this family, a lot! Hey I just found some digital artwork, is there anything this family doesn’t do?

Before you start to fret, I found some spelling mistakes and typos, so don’t worry this family isn’t all perfect. But they are definitely interesting enough and blog daily with a skipped day now and then(It’s ok, I forgive them, even perfect families need a break from blogging). Now go and see for yourself!Danz Family

I had a feeling from the moment I arrived at this site that I was going to love it. Being that I’m a bit slow, it took me a while to figure out what was going on with the web address,(http://dubyadubyadubyadotcom.com/) but when I finally caught it, I was even more assured that I had stumbled upon a gem. I liked the layout, simple, but not boring, easy on the eyes and not too busy. The header states “Mostly Healthy Mostly Harmless” and even though my analytical self would have liked to have seen a comma between ‘healthy’ and ‘mostly’, it gives you a good first impression of the site right away.

James Starritt is an amazing writer. His weblog is a mix of different things. Some days, it’s a journal where he records his daily antics, and those of his two cats (including one he suspects to have been injected with rabies on her last trip to the vet). Other times it’s where he rants and raves about his political views, which are refreshingly different and well delivered.There is a category of posts called ‘Childhood Chronicles’ where he reminisces about growing up, and I enjoyed going back to those days with him. I wonder if he speaks as well as he writes, because if so, I could listen to him babble at me for days on end. He has the ability to make you read through what looks to be a mile long post and wish that it wasn’t over.

The template is dark and plain, and it fits the site, being as it’s easier for you to concentrate on the great content, without being drawn over to the too-busy sidebar or blinking header and footers. There are links to other blogs, an extensive archive, and there’s the ability to sort through the site by whichever category blog you’d prefer to read.

James kept me entertained, interested, and amused throughout. Something that I noticed is that he’s from England, and moved to Wisconsin. And if you’ve seen the film Love Actually, you’ll realize that that’s where the character ‘Colin, God of Sex’ goes on his quest for more down to earth women. I just thought that was a funny coincidence and I wanted to point it out. His about me page is a great read, and offers insight and explanations about different things you may wonder about in his entries, and also about himself.

I felt that this was an awesome blog and the only reason I didn’t give it a 5 is because I am a camera whore and I would’ve liked to seen more photographs than I did. James Starritt has found a new daily reader in me, and I’m sure if you take the time to visit his blog yourself, that you will become one also.

Mosty Healthy Mostly Harmless

Well, the term “Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless” certainly caught my eye as I viewed this site. I wasn’t quite sure if the author was being humorous about the statement or if he was really being serious. I guessed that it was a little bit of both.

As I read the subtitle, which promises security tips and tricks that offer on the people and not the technology, I expected to be bombarded by jargon that will be of little help to my poor, not-so-security-savvy brain. But it was not so.

I started reading and at first, I was fascinated with the stories compiled within. The blog entries, to me, seemed just like a compilation of stories and articles the author found while surfing the net. As it is so, the entries do revolve around one certain topic – security. It is great though; the stories cover a wide range of topics and are quite interesting.

Design-wise, the blog itself has a very simple one. It is a straightforward, no-nonsense kind of layout. However, through its simplicity, it emphasizes on the fact that this blog is not some unthought of kind of blog. It has a purpose and that purpose is security.

As I said, this blog is straightforward and has a purpose. It is a great blog to visit to find out, if not everything, some good tips and trick about security. Though most of the entries are just links of articles with a little bit of summary up front, it is a great one to visit to find out more about security. I would suggest anyone of any age to visit just to find out more at what they cater to best – security.

Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless

I love the name of “Not Well Planned” for a blog. It is great. It creates a thought of randomness that is a blog. It also has a sense of honesty as it takes an honest person to admit that something is not well planned. This is a good name for this blog as you will see.

The first thing I noticed was the bright pink template. I am not a fan of templates, but know that they serve those who cannot design a site on their own. I am glad that this is not a bad template, nor is it one that is overly used (probably because of the bright pink nature). While the template did nothing FOR the site, it also did nothing AGAINST the site.

So I started reading the site and I had a hard time getting into it. It read as if I wasn’t the target audience. I am a male, in the US, who runs a blog review site. After some more posts I started to enjoy it a bit, but still something was amiss. Then after the month of December I realized what it was – this is the blog equivalent to a chick flick. The bright pink, the stories of family, the stories of ex’s and friends, and well you get the picture.

Once I realized what this blog was about it was a lot easier to read. The stories are definately targeted at a female audience, but reveal some great things to us males. The fact that she admits she blogs about “sh***ing and farting too much is great. And that is on the tame side for this blog. This blog talks about all things on the spectrum and is hard to follow for some, but those that get it will be right there nodding their heads.

Overall I think females will LOVE this blog and most guys will dismiss it. Even if they can get some juicy info on females from it, I still think they won’t sit through the “we can’t relate posts” like burning your eye off with a home waxing kit. So this blog gets a 3.75 from me because I can honestly say it is better than average, but it is not my cup of tea since I am male.not well planned

Sign of the times is a simple black background blogger template. Opening up this site I thought I’d be reading about happenings in this “time” so to speak. What you actually get is basically a view on prophesy’s from that bible that have since come true. This blog is heavily religious based, in so much as there is a lot of “anti-christ” talk in regards to the EU and the doomsday references.

There seems to be two people writing for this blog, but neither of them have any kind of information about themselves on the blog. There are no links to other blogs or links to any other webpages. Both author’s seem to focus mainly on the anti-christ and prophecy’s from the bible that relate to this coming.

I found this blog perked my interest, only because I quite enjoy a good religious read, especially when it comes to prophecy’s and miracles, but I think the author’s should talk about something else for a change apart from the anti-christ and the EU. I’m sure there are plenty of other prophecy’s in the Bible that haven’t been mentioned.

I gave this blog a 2.5 because it’s nearly interesting, but not quite. I found it lacking, only because there are so many other area’s explore in regards to the subject matter which haven’t been. But this is a very new blog I believe, there don’t seem to be any archives and only 10 entry’s, but then again, it just might be a play on the belief of the authors. If there are to be any more entry’s I hope the author’s will cover other topic areas and if they do I’ll definitely come back to have an ogle.
Signs of the times