Month: May 2002

The title and slogan of this website go like this: “A Blog of Infinite Power – Don’t be offended, he’s offended FOR you”. Now, while “infinite power” might be pushing it a bit, there is a nearly infinite supply of external links to all

The layout’s just one of the standard Blogger templates, so it’s nothing that stands out. The menu bar to the side has even more links to entertain and inform you.

Sites that belong in the news/links category are difficult to review. Does the author just throw links up that you could find anywhere? Not here. I’m was honestly impressed by the variety and uniqueness with the large number of links that are posted at a time. The author uses just a brief witty explanation to pique your curiousity enough to get you to click the link, which is exactly what a site like this SHOULD do.

Why did I give this site a higher than average rating? The 4.0 is based mainly on the fact that these links come from ALL over the board. I’ve done my fair share of internet surfing over the years, and had never been to any of the links that I found at this site. It’s definitely a wonderful site to visit if you’re looking for an interesting way to pass time. Melton Bing

From the get go, I really enjoyed reading this site. Kevin’s smart and he’s witty, and combining those two things with his clear and concise writing style, you’ve got one heck of a weblog to read through!

Kevin posts several times a day sometimes, but nearly everything he does post is worthy of reading. He’s quite the music and movie connoisseur, and it’s always refreshing to read other takes on specific forms of media that are out and about.

The layout of the site was just as clean and enjoyable as the weblog. The site has a complete archives, and Kevin’s even taken the time to link some of what he considers the “best of” his past weblog entries.

I’ll be the first person to admit that I’m naturally harder on kids under the 18 that have a weblog. Why? I think it’s because when I was that age, I was involved in those good ol’ school-related activities and working to save up money for a tank of gas.

And as I’m stereoptyping, I should also add that the majority of teenage weblogs I’ve read are chock full of crude misspellings and entirely too many emoticons. You can imagine the happiness I felt when “invalid” was nothing like this at all. It’s definitely worth checking out.invalid

All any good blog site needs is two very important components in my opinion, interesting posts that are easy to read and a nice, pleasant design that is comforting to the eyes and not distracting. Dutch in Denmark seems to have covered these two areas very adequately so I thought myself lucky to be able to review such a well-put together weblog.

Not coming from Denmark, nor being Dutch, I guess a lot of the content went straight over my head that I simply couldn’t relate to, but it doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy reading the blog. With the World Cup on at the moment I wasn’t surprised to see quite a few references to the big event, and being a mad football fan myself I’ll admit here and now that won me big points with the author. Also with both us being Dutch national team supporters I’m not ashamed to say I was glued to reading some of the posts, but occasionally blogs are like that, if it has a subject matter your interested in they can be rather addictive.

I really like this design, especially the area under the posts where you can view people comments in a smaller font, a fantastic idea. The colour scheme works very well to, nothing too bright, and it all pretty much compliments well together. Navigation through the site is also a no fuss, simple list of links on the right-hand side that is easily assessable. Well-sized pictures and fonts also help make the blog look rather tidy.

There are certainly a lot of extras to this site apart from the main weblog, including a bio (which you should all know by now I’m a huge fan of), photos, links and a guest book among other things. It certainly would take a fair while to plough through all the information here, but its all good and if your interested you may come across some pleasurable links here and there.

Hard to find anything to improve upon though I guess the length between archives is rather long (roughly every 10 posts) which may not seem a lot but there is plenty of filling in each update. Saying that, it didn’t bother me in the slightest until I tried to find something I could comments about, I’m sure you’d come to the same conclusion.

All in all a terrific site, without being over the top, and I took pleasure in reviewing this site. If you like the idea of living in Denmark (or Europe for that matter), not to mention like the odd tad bit of football news at the moment, then I recommend you add Dutch in Denmark to your list of bookmarks. I give the site a 3.5 out of 5. And I’m sure the Netherlands will be there in 2006!
Dutch in Denmark

Kitten with a Whip is the title of this weblog. The weblog title was derived from several nicknames Joni’s been given, and it fits her personality (at least what can be taken from her weblog) quite accurately. From what I could gather from her weblog, Joni’s a take charge kind of person and doesn’t back down from her opinion. So, the name of the weblog fits. And I like that.

Another favorable factor with Kitten with a Whip is the concise manner in which Joni posts to her weblog. If she doesn’t have anything to say, she doesn’t make an entry for the day. If she has several things to say, she may post several different times. It makes the weblog easy to read, and the reader doesn’t have to wade through a bunch of unnecessary babbling to find out what Joni’s really posting about.

If Joni had the option for readers to comment on her entries, there would undoubtedly be plenty of things for people to say.

In addition to the weblog, Joni has written some poetry which she links to on the menu bar. It’s enjoyable, and worth checking into.

Overall, this site was a good read. Reading from start to finish, I stumbled upon a number of interesting things and learned quite a bit about the author. It’s a weblog that I’ll probably be giving a return visit to, and would recommend it to someone looking to add to their list of daily reads.kitten with a whip

Ah nutz. Where to begin with this site? How about the design of it, since that caught me way off guard. Ok, first thing that loads up is a picnic type tablecloth background. Blue and white crisscross pattern. For most of reading the site, this became a nuance as I swear I kept seeing thing outside of the center box with the weblog in it.

So now onto the weblog. This weblog is written by a male in the UK. Some of the things he writes make it very obvious he is from there, and I almost heard my thoughts in an English Accent. (yes I am from the USA) This fact, at first, made it harder for me to connect with the author. Try as I might, I couldn’t find a common ground with him and his current postings.

So I went back to how it all started and read the weblog backwards. This makes me wonder why the weblog tools don’t give the authors an option to post two copies, one in chronilogical order and one in reverse. But back to the weblog. Starting at the beginning put me back on ground with the author. Same things he was going through, I went through. It is interesting if you see where someone started from, you can have a better view point than if you jump in the middle.

This weblog is just an average weblog though. There is nothing over the top, and nothing that is bad. It fits nicely in that niche that some people will like it and other won’t. It won’t have a majority ruling one way or the other, and that is fine.
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