Monthly Archives: October 2012

Metaphor, Simile – no clue, putting it out there, maybe I’ll float like a butterfly or crash and burn but I’ll give it a whirl …

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It’s like I dipped my toe into a murky dark green pond, the ripple caused a wave of sensations that sent me reeling,
a sensory overload at first so overwhelming it takes awhile to come into focus.
This land of blog, piled high with a mountain of information,
it’s like searching through a landfill looking for that one small treasure, hours, days, weeks
time lays out before me on this seemingly endless journey.
A constant buzzing, a gnat by my ear that just won’t go away.
The mirror keeps fogging up and I’m constantly wiping it in order to see myself.
Like the nomad wandering the desert in search of water, I wander the blogosphere in search of that one golden nugget that holds the key.


Addendum, this was originally written a few weeks ago – 60 hours has come and gone some 200 hours ago.

Okay so I’ve put about 60 plus hours of research and asking people in the know about starting a blog. A lot of people say just start a blog and flounder from there but what I’m realizing while doing this research (and not putting it on my blog just yet) is a little patience will probably go a long way (oh and a little expense). The old adage, ‘you can’t get something for nothing’ seems very real in the cyber world.

I did not adhere to any of the bracketed information below, in fact I’m still floundering along while being “live”. What I realized after all is that let’s face it, if you don’t know what you’re doing, no one’s really paying attention at the beginning anyway, and your friends are understanding and forgiving (and hopefully sometimes amused by your blunders) so it’s as good a place as any to get your feet wet. I’m still not sure about how I feel regarding advertisement. I may end up setting up two blogs and seeing which one fares better. But I am definitely going to be picking some brains before I figure it out. Be sure to reach out to friends and family when rooting around in the blogasphere, you’d be surprised how many people would like to help. I did get a domain, that seemed very important to me.

[So after several weeks research, here’s my conclusions:

Don’t “go live” until you’re absolutely sure that you have all your ducks in a row. For me this means, getting a domain name, getting a website set up with a correct way to set up banners and ads and a hit counter. Make sure your links are maintained and first and foremost make sure you proofread and spell check your stuff.]

I will repeat the above again and again because I found whenever I went to a site if it was sprinkled with bad grammar and spelling I immediately closed out and found their site of no value. How can their advice be credible when they can’t even spell check before they post? (Okay, crappy grammar, not such an issue for certain things but would it kill people to use a little punctuation from time to time?)

However, I also use slang, “isms”, popular acronyms and so forth as well which is often discouraged – it’s a personal choice. I like to think my audience, while blog uneducated like myself, is otherwise smart and sophisticated. I read something yesterday that really appealed to me wherein the blogger said, write for you and that’s what I’m doing, writing what I’d like to read, what amuses me, what I’m interested in.

Plus, in case you haven’t noticed, people today have the attention spans of fleas. Paragraphs should be short, concise and pertinent. If I was reading a blog, even a well written one and it tended to go on, I’d lose interest, skim through it or close out altogether.

Very few will read pages and pages of information. This is in fact one of my longer entries as I’ve found the blogs I liked were the ones that were short and sweet, oh and a sense of humour never killed anyone either. Gawd you would think all these bloggers were friggin’ teetotalers (that’s straight-edge and boring for you kids) from the way they write. Did no one here remember how boooooooooring those teachers were in school that just droned on and on?!

iPod Frozen? Try this Easy Fix!

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Something Apple and it’s “geniuses” don’t tell you. Before you panic, cry, press reset, resort to factory settings,freak out – breath. In fact you’ll have awhile to do this. If your iPod is frozen and the screen is lit up, no worries, just wait a couple of hours at most for the batteries to drain, plug it into your wall charger again and hey presto, good as new! No fuss, no mess, no lost stuff, no having to spend hours putting all your music/videos back on. I know awesome right! (Oh yeah, I’ve also noticed this seems to happen less if you allow your batter to fully drain from time to time. Keeping your iPod constantly fully charged at all times seems to be detrimental.) You’re welcome, have a great day!


I am a cyclist. No, not someone who sometimes rides a bike. I use a bicycle as my main source of transportation. I have never had a license as I have never really needed one in the city. Although I have wished for one on several occasions to get out of the city.

I love cycling, I hate traffic and I hate how the alleged “law” does nothing to instil any kind of respect for cyclists.

For the sake of sanity I beg you on behalf of all cyclists, please use your signal lights. (And yes, to that end, I do use my hand signals as well as much as possible.) And try not to suddenly dart out in front of me so I have to slam on the brakes so hard I either flip over my handle bars or careen under your car. It’s a really little thing, it doesn’t even involve much activity, just some consideration.

I can’t for the life of me understand why the province hasn’t introduced a R.I.D.E. type program to do with cyclists awareness, pulling drivers over for such infractions as noted above AND pulling cyclists over for:

1. Texting. Are you fucking kidding me?! You are riding your bike where you need all your wits about you and you are texting – an accident might do you good.
2. Wearing all black at night with no lights, so basically invisible. No wonder drivers hate us. How would you like to have this looming blur in the distance suddenly manifest into some knob on a bicycle two feet from your car?

I really don’t understand this focus on helmets. If I want to smash my head in, that’s my prerogative. (Having been hit by a car, losing three front teeth and finding out that I probably would have died had I been wearing a helmet – a one in a million chance – I’m still on the fence. I wear them … sometimes.)

I think the focus should be on visibility and common courtesy. Barring that a good screaming match can’t be beat … I kid, I kid … sort of.

So What is a Blog?

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The above gives 27 different interpretations of what is a blog.

However, I disagree vehemently that a blog is a journal, there are specific sites for that. If you just want to wax poetic about life there’s livejournal or Penzu or dailydiary or whatever. To me the idea of a blog is to create and maintain a readership, a flow of traffic and with any luck, an income! In order to do that you have to be dispelling a certain amount of information that people might be looking for, say how to create a blog, or where to go to buy the best suitcase, etc. I hardly expect anyone to read my daily ramblings about how my knee is out, my boyfriend and I are fighting and my cat puked again. (Okay, I tricked you there, but I swear it’s the last time. 🙂 (And I might be a bit hypocritical in that capacity as my rants are slightly in the same vein, however …)

Having said that, there’s nothing stopping you from journal blogging, but I suspect if you want feedback about stuff you’re writing about you want to seek out a community of like-minded individuals that actually give a shit about what you’re writing about in order to get said feedback. It’s really important to remember that there’s so much information out there people are going to focus on what interests them. [If you’re curious, peruse the WordPress site and see how many “journal” like blogs you can find. I’ve already looked and the answer’s not many. This is not the medium for it. If I had the time and the inclination I would probably do both, but for now, my focus is on blogging and the disseminating of (what I hope is) interesting information. But listen, if you guys keep reading and make me popular maybe I can give up the ol’ 9-5 ball and chain and keep a journal blog too … and write that screenplay … and that book. Yeah, yeah whatever GG *snickers*.