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“In case you were curious this page is about the random thoughts and ideas that go through my mind throughout the days” – Bill’s exact words on what this site is about. I couldn’t have said it better.

I wasn’t overly thrilled with the layout of the site. There’s only so much changing a Blogger template can do, and when you change the colors, that’s not always a good thing. Technically speaking, there wasn’t anything wrong with the layout, but I just didn’t feel like it flowed together well at all, and needed a bit of solidity in it.

I certainly had my fill of “What type of ______ are you?” tests after perusing through all of the available archives. Each weekly archived link is just filled with two or three entries – usually a test result thrown in somewhere, accompanied by one or two other posts, with one typically being some song lyrics or poetry of some type. And if you’re lucky, you’ll get to read about something that Bill has actually done.

There’s not a lot to this site. If you know Bill, then perhaps you’d find it interesting to keep caught up on what he’s doing since he’s on a mini-vacation of sorts. However, it’s hard to actually connect with Bill and find yourself wanting to come back to read more.
The Bill site

At Flamingseagull.com, you get 2 blogs for the price of one! Or something like that …


Here, you’ll meet Nellie, who says she needs to read before heading off to bed and Marlush who says she can’t eat salt for some reason which goes unknown. Both have their own little space where they blog their thoughts.


Both Nellie and Marlush tend to write short posts from what I was able to see; sometimes a line or 2 long while others maybe be a paragraph short. I was a bit disappointed that I was unable to have access or find any archives, but we do with what we have.

They tend to write about work, what’s going on that weekend and so on. Nellie wrote a lengthy post about one early morning where she ended up locking her car keys in her car and dealing with difficult people at the gas station. Marlush on the other hand had a bit more written on her blog and wrote about needing to cut back on some of her expenses and hang out at her local park and what music festival’s coming up.


I liked the layout even though they’re in the middle of finishing up the design and so on. Some of the links you can’t use, such as the photo page, and something called, “ask ms nellie.” The only graphics on the site are pictures of each of the girls which seems to show off their playful personalities.

I was a bit disappointed with the site, mostly because it lacked substance. It would have been nice had there been more to read from. And even though both blogs seem pretty similar, it’s cool you get two blogs to read from. Flamingseagull

I call this place “DaveDorm” for two reasons. It’s from the Latin dormiere
which means “where one lives”. Well, this is where I live online. The
original idea of this site was a peek into my life.”

Okay, so I expected a blog of a college guy’s life in the dorms, but now I
know better. DaveDorm is not a journal but a blog in the “truer” sense of
the word, which both helps and hinders the site.

Dave’s writing is a blend of everyday life and the news/site of the day
links. When these links are followed by extended, thought-out commentary,
they are worth reading, but Dave sometimes falls into the pitfall of
blogging: linking to the same stories that can be found on a thousand other
sites. Dave writes well, there are no glaring errors and his entries are
very readable, and with a slight change in focus, I think his blog would be
much more interesting.

DaveDorm has a few other sections, but the most elaborated is the “About”
section. In this section you can see Dave in Trek uniform and singing
karaoke (I wonder if he ever combines these two favorite activities), along
with photos and other personal details. It is here that Dave comes to life
as a real person, and I wish Dave’s personality could be so well defined on
his main blog.

Design-wise, DaveDorm is based on a MoveableType template, but since Dave
just recently moved to MT, it’s not that big of an issue. The pop-up windows
for some sections are very annoying, and I’d advise Dave to abandon them
ASAP. Dave also has plans to make his site handicapped and blind accessible,
which is a noble goal. Good luck, Dave.

As it stands now, DaveDorm has the potential to be a really good blog. The
entry topics could be better, and I hope Dave at least changes the blog
colors soon to make it stand out from the crowd. DaveDorm is worth visiting,
but it has room for improvement.DaveDorm

Life-Log Perpetual, the Personal Diary of Christopher M. Canavan, is a new addition to the ever-growing number of weblogs out on the world wide web these days since his “maiden voyage post” on October 8.

The beauty of this website comes in Chris’s writing. This is the kind of weblog I like to read. It’s one that lets you into the author’s life by him blogging about his typical day or what’s going on in his life. It’s not so personal that you can’t understand half the things he’s talking about because you don’t know the background on everything involved. But it is personal enough to give the reader some type of attachment and that desire to come back and read the Life-Log Perpetual.

Chris is funny, witty, intelligent, opinionated, and straight forward – that’s the impression that the writing in his weblog gives me, that is.

In his initial post, he advises readers to consider the rating of these posts to be of the XXX variety, which he does only to cover himself. I wouldn’t consider anything yet posted to classify as XXX, but like Chris says, at least you’ve been warned that things could go in that direction.

The appearance is by no means revolting, but I think Chris must have something up his sleeve to improve the appearance of it. The weblog is in a typical solid-color-blocked Blogger template. It’s not an ugly one, but it’s an overused one. And i’m not sure exactly how the pictures on the top and side really relate to the rest of the weblog, but perhaps that’s a mystery that all readers have yet to solve.

Even it it’s early stages, this site intrigued me enough to add it to my list of daily links. I’ll gladly come back and visit on a regular basis to see what other perils of wisdom Chris has to share with his newly developed weblog. I’d recommend anyone else to do the same.

Irrelevant Press

Amy Beth is an old school blogger. Her earliest archives dated back to April 2000, and she’s one of the few that have been a faithful blogger for that entire amount of time without taking much of a break at all.

The posts made over the years at this website are pretty basic. They’re either quick links to something the author has found interesting (either newsworthy or worth a few good laughs), or just a daily update on what’s either going on in her personal or work-related life. It’s nothing ground breaking, but more a casual weblog with casual reading.

All of the archives of this site are functional. Of course, there are some links that are no longer valid or some images that no longer show up, but that’s just expected when looking at something that was posted over two years ago. The only complaint about the archives would be the color schemes uses before Amy Beth started to use any weblogging tool. The colors are nice and bright, but don’t go well together and often cause a bit of eye strain when trying to read the weblog entries.

The only thing that puzzled me was the image at the top of the site. I had no real clue how the eight different images of flying creatures really related to the weblog at all. And when all was said in done, it didn’t. Of course, it had no effect on the rest of the weblog.

The rest of the site is quite extensive as well. There’s a photo gallery, postcards you can send to your friends, and a humor section to name a few.

Overall, the *supah*weblog* is a fun one to read. Amy Beth sometimes updates several times a day, and it makes for interesting reading. I would suggest giving it a visit and see if “What’s Up With What’s Going Down” is something you’ll add to your bookmark list.

supah: whats up with whats going down