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Blogging has its uses

Grandad September 10th, 2007

A lot of people say that blogging is a waste of time.

A friend of mine won’t read blogs [not even this one] because they are not “real” writing. I think he only reads Kevin Myers.

However I have found some real uses for blogging.

The first one happened yesterday. I was nosing around and came across a site that allows you select the music of your choice and put it on a playlist. Even better, you can then incorporate that playlist in your blog.

Of course, I had to do this. I set up a page on this site called ‘My Music’, where it starts to play as soon as the page opens. This is great because I open it in a separate browser and have my music playing in the background. There isn’t a great choice in it at the moment, and a few of the tracks are broken, but give me time…..

The second time that blogs came in handy was this morning.

I had set aside today to do some accounting. Now I hate accounting or any sort of paperwork. I need a secretary. I used to have one but she left in a huff. I was cleared in the court case through lack of evidence.

Anyway, I was just settling into my accounts, when I got a frantic e-mail. A fellow blogger was in trouble. I won’t tell you her name as you all know her and love her, and I don’t want to bandy names about. It transpired that her site was down and could I help? See - my reputation is spreading!

I was delighted. I could put the books away and do some messing on another persons site. As it happened, the site fixed itself [cheap and nasty hosting!!], but I now have an excuse that my brain is too tired and the books can stay away until tomorrow.

So I can sit back now. I’ll leave my blog running, so I can have some quiet music, and I might have a little nap……..

Blogs are great!

Golden Crab Awards

Grandad September 10th, 2007

Head Rambles is delighted to announce the Golden Crabs Awards [previously known as the Golden S.H.I.T. Awards.

For some years now, there has been an award known as the Golden Spiders. To obtain one of these awards is very difficult, and it is therefore perceived as being the de facto award system in Ireland.

However, the reasons behind the difficulty are simple.

You have to pay a considerable entrance fee just to be considered.
Voting is done in a secret and apparently arbitrary manner.
Winners invariably have some connection with sponsors.
The sites that have won to date, are in the main, run of the mill sites, showing no exceptional qualities whatsoever. In fact, most even fail to meet the basic criteria of coding.

Here, at Silver Haired Internet Technology, we feel that any site should be eligible to enter regardless of financial backing.

Sites that qualify are any site that is on the Internet. I know this is a bit restrictive, but we have to keep the numbers down a bit.

Do you like a site because of its design or content? Is it easy or hard to navigate? Do you love it or hate it? This is a versatile award and may be given for the best, or the worst.

So it is up to you to nominate the sites, and send them their awards. Encourage them to pass on the voting. If they want to know what it's all about, just send them here.

Here is the nice bit.

There are no categories or criteria. You set them yourselves.

So you can nominate a site as being the best blog, or the worst blog, or the blog you most visit on a Tuesday. You decide. In the spirit of the Awards, the recipient should declare what they received the award for though.

Let us all see what we think of each others sites.

There are a couple of logos to send on as awards.

There is the main award [400 x 173] -