What's worth blogging about.

My friend, who would dearly love to join us and become a blogger, just asked how I choose what to blog about. Here's the careful process I go through to select blogging fodder for you, beloved reader.

1. Wake up computer
2. Click on my blog
3. Hit 'new post'
4. Start typing
5. Ask myself if what I've written is worth posting
6. Hit 'publish' anyway.

Basically, if I'm thinking about something, I'll blog about it.

Whether it's worth reading or not, is another question.

Just do it, Chris. Blog.

And even more anon love

Thenk you very much
xyzrxyz.2011

Seems a shame not to accept any of these comments, but I know that as soon as I do, Anon's less desirable friends will join the party.

More praise from anon

Simply wish to say your article is as amazing. The clearness in your post is just nice and i could assume youre an expert on this subject. Well with your permission let me to grab your RSS feed to keep updated with forthcoming post. Thanks a million and please keep up the rewarding work.
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I did some research and it seems that anon hangs out a lot with Coach Bags (who has commented here before) and S_*e_**x Videos. I love the way anon engages with the topic of Church Planting.

Wow, thanks Anon!

Just got this comment for moderation on my post Church Planting Frustrations.

Ive been meaning to read this and just never got a chance. Its an issue that Im very interested in, I just started reading and Im glad I did. Youre a wonderful blogger, 1 of the most effective that Ive seen. This weblog undoubtedly has some facts on topic that I just wasnt aware of. Thanks for bringing this stuff to light.

bladvice

bladvice (blog-advice) –noun
- an opinion or recommendation offered on a blog as a guide to action, conduct, etc.: I read some bladvice telling me to hang my socks in pairs on the clothes line.

Care should be taken with bladvice. Offering it too readily can cause blannoyance. 

I've missed you all.

Lots of gossip to catch up on.

Arrived home at 5pm. (Posted some pics on the way home!)

Unpacked and done 2 loads of washing.

Off to a meeting now.

Blog later.

I took the dream team post down...

Now all my other posts have come back.

What if I put it back?

3 posts now on the front page?

Is there something wrong with my dream team post?

Blogger?

why...

... is there only one post on my front page?

I've got it set to 40.

Blogger?

Blenvy

Ben has given us the terms blangst (blog angst) and blatisfaction (blog satisfaction). Now I give you blenvy.

Blenvy is Blog-Envy. The act or attitude of envying another blogger her readership, influence, layout or design, writing style, or the comments or praise her blog receives. Blenvy can be experienced in many ways from feelings of personal inadequacy to anger at another blogger. It can find expression in petty ways like withholding blog love (blove) from that blogger (not linking to him, commenting on his posts, blugging etc), to public, real world bad mouthing of him. Blenvy is an experience common to bloggers. It often takes the blogger by surprise and leads to much blangst ('Oh no! I can't believe I'm feeling this way. Blogging is really bad for me!') but should be considered normal. The best treatment for blenvy is usually to laugh it off and try not to take yourself and your blogging so seriously.

venn diagram competition closes tomorrow!

Get them in!

Winner announced Tuesday.

I have nothing to say.

I could give you a review of the Vampire Diaries that I read last week but I'm sure none of you were considering reading them anyway. (If Twilight scored 3/5, these scored 1.5/5. Enough said? Not even mildly interesting.)

I could give you a rerun of my heated argument with Andrew last night about whether the government should control what gets advertised during kids' tv shows (I think the government should.) But I can't be bothered. I'm sure you're all on my side anyway. (I reckon that last sentence made most of you join Andrew's side!)

I could tell you all to keep those venn diagrams coming for my comp. Great prize etc. But you already know.

I coud keep writing this post, but .... I won't.

blogging and venn diagrams make life better

Less is more : 5 things everyone should learn how to do

1. Edit video. Chop out every unnecessary millisecond. Your friends will thank you for it. In fact, if you have edited properly, your friends may still be your friends after the viewing experience.

2. Make wise fonting choices. Just because you have 1000 fonts, it doesn't mean you should use them all. Especially not in the one document. Actually, don't ever use 950 of them. And lose the clipart, too.

3. Write facebook status updates without exclamation marks. Christians seem to have an obsession with exclamation marks. Some say we should just cut down. I say, complete cold turkey. None at all. None!

4. Resist the wonders that are word art and slide transitions. Again, just because they are there...

5. Write a list. Who needs logic? Who needs paragraphs? The list is clean and beautiful.

make me mexican!

 

Always keen to help.

happiness

Ali tagged me in this meme. I have to write 10 things that make me happy. Lots of things make me happy. I couldn't limit it to 10. Here are 15. Ask me tomorrow and I'll list another 15.

1. Jesus. The forgiveness of sins. Life everlasting.

2. The 'newspaper' Nathan is making at the moment. It's called the 'Daily Fear' and is delightfully satirical.

3. A high school musical duet.


4. Thinking about the new creation where I'll be able to hang out with friends for a really long time.


5. Micah eating his dinner.


6. Joel's clay sculptures.

7. Anything expressed in venn diagram form.

8. My choir. Today they learnt a harmony part for 'Song for the Mira' and sang it nicely.

9. Getting a song demo in my email inbox.

10. The chest track in Body Pump - if I can load up the bar significantly and not fatigue out before the end.

11. A good Sophie Hannah style poem.

12. 3 hours in a coffee shop.

13. Making Andrew watch 'Twilight' movies with me.

14. A new idea.

15. Someone else doing my paperwork.

I tag: Ruth, Sarah, Anthony, Nathan R. Nicole,

limerick

A blogger with rocks in her head
wrote a post that was linked to and read
by four hundred. She frowned
and then pulled the post down
for some things are much better unsaid.

sar 2010

Why do I have so many tabs open?

Al - it's your fault. I go to your site, chase up a few links and... fifty extra tabs!

'Open link in new tab'. It seems like a good idea. Then I have to stop what I'm doing and shut down 397 of them*. When it gets too out of control I decide it will be quicker to kill firefox and start again. But no. All my old tabs keep coming back to haunt me. I DON'T WANT THEM! Sometimes I think it would be faster to run down to dick smith, buy a new computer, install everything I need and begin again.

*To be fair, not all 397 tabs are Al's fault. And even if they were, I wouldn't stop reading.

apology

Lately I've been as insufferable as the woman in the poem below on this blog.  Sorry.  There's been far too much kid stuff. 

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Make me a cake if you want me to
Eat. Place a sliver on my plate and I'll
Taste it with you.
Away with mere words.
Paint the sky, play
Hide and seek, let
Off or
Remain
silent.


sar 2010