You have probably realized by now that the link on the iTouch image from The Forbidden Apple post is broken. I did that. On purpose.
I don’t care if you take the images from this site, but take the time to save them to your own box and upload it to your server yerowndamnself.
You’re costing me bandwidth, with no return on my investment.
Fucking looters.
To be honest, I have been given two of these puppies and I haven’t been gracious enough to acknowledge them publicly. I apologize.
So, the first one is from Rae Lori from way back in February. Aarrggghhh. So embarrassed. Especially since I like her writing voice. Very calm and sweet (what I’ve read of her).
This is the Premio Dardas Award, which…
…acknowledges the values that every Blogger displays in their effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values with each message they write. Awards like this have been created with the intention of promoting community among Bloggers. It’s a way to show appreciation and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web.
These are the rules:
1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person that has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment.
3) Remember to contact each of them to let them know they have been chosen for this award.
Well, screw the rules (as usual). I’m just going to list a few of the blogs I read on a semi-regular basis, in no particular order.
Eugene Woodbury’s Ooburoshiki Blog
Deborah Riley-Magnus, Writeaholic
If you’re in this list and you see yourself, considered yourself to have been tagged and you are now it. Otherwise, thank you for some awesome stuff you give me to think about on a regular basis.
Blogs are, by their very nature, niche. One person, or a group of like-minded people, write stuff that generally espouses one point of view. Dissenting opinions are usually always welcome, but even those with opposing opinions like those blogs for whatever reason and become regulars.
Then we have the people who stumble across a blog whose agenda doesn’t coincide with their own, and they do a hit’n’run. I did this once (that I remember) and I was very embarrassed with myself. I had no reason to haul off on that guy. I went back and apologized, but the damage was done and I can’t take that back.
So here’s a study:
One message board where I lurk is an active, established community of self-publishers, and a certain couple of traditionally published authors swoop in from time to time to berate them how deluded they are. Um, okay. Thanks? If you don’t like what those people are doing/saying, don’t go there.
On a blog where I lurk, a post hit a hot button of mine, but I almost never post there and I didn’t want to do like I’ve done before and swoop in to tell them all to shove it, because, well…I’m not an active participant otherwise. Why would I do that? All I have to do is not go there.
It’s taken me nearly 40 years to learn that keeping my mouth shut gets me in a lot less trouble than opening it.
But sometimes…it’s a fight to keep from saying something.
I lost this round. *sigh*
Okay, my last theme was annoying me to death. Could barely stand to look at it. I’m working on the sidebar now because, you know, i R a righter and I gotz me sum bookz to sell. Need to make it easy for you to get there to buy them.
Anyway, this is much cleaner and easier on my eyeballs. I hope to get back to blogging semi-regularly, too.
I never cottoned to the last template, especially the date thing.
I’ll leave this one up for a few days and see if it grows on me.
June 18, 2009, 8:07 p.m. CDT
I’m trying to finalize the blog theme I’m customizing, which means lots of changes in the way things look. Unfortunately, two things have happened:
1. The new theme has only one sidebar and I’m rearranging stuff.
2. WordPress asked me to upgrade to 2.8 and now my stupid widget function isn’t working. I only found out about this when Dude said, “Where’s the latest comments list?”
I’m hoping to get the thing up and running some time tonight, but don’t quote me on that.
UPDATE on 6/19/09 at 11:11 pm CDT:
1. For some reason, the “date” function on this template doesn’t work. That’ll be a dealbreaker if I can’t get it to work.
2. The “Stories” tab above doesn’t point to anything yet.
3. The blogroll is hand-coded in the other template, so I need to get that in here properly.4. I have a few other widgets I’d like to try out.
I’m tired of this template and besides, it’s getting a little too cluttered for my taste. So…for the next little while, I’m going to be working on changing it out. If you come here and see strangity, it’s cuz I’m messin’ with it.
