Blog Advertizing
This entry was posted on May 29, 2008
I received an email today from someone called Elmer, offering me blog sponsorship. I’m all for being paid to do something I love, but being sponsored to blog? That’s not something I’d be interested in, to be honest. I can’t help but feel it would give off the wrong “vibe” to my blog.
When I see sponsored blog posts on other blogs, I feel like the sponsorship affects the way the blogger writes; it has an influence on them, and that’s not an influence I like seeing. I want to read 100% honest blog posts, not an opinion that can be swayed by something so trivial as money.
So, whilst it was nice to hear from you, Elmer, I’m afraid I’m going to have to refuse your offer, and not just because your website is weird and you can’t spell “advertising”. The same goes for anyone else who wants to sponsor me to blog. Feel free to give me money (I wouldn’t say no to that!) but don’t try and “sponsor” me to say what you want me to say.
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Are you musical?
This entry was posted on May 19, 2008
It’s no secret that I love music. Music is probably my biggest passion in the whole world (yes, even more than front end web development). I truly believe that music makes the world go round.
I play various musical instruments, and I listen to music heaps as well. I try to go to as many live music shows as I can realistically afford, and I spend far too much time / money in HMV.
My favourite music is often produced by five-piece male-fronted rock bands, such as My Chemical Romance, Avenged Sevenfold, Simple Plan, and Good Charlotte, though I’m also a bit partial to solo stars such as Ashley Tisdale, Rihanna, Britney Spears, and Michael Buble. What can I say - I have a broad taste in music!
Recent artists I’ve been enjoying are Marilyn Manson, The Subways, and the cast of High School Musical. I even have a playlist with those three artists on. “Bet on it” sits quite happily next to “Long hard road out of hell” on my iPod.
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before, but I have a last.fm profile. All my music is “scrobbled” there, but I don’t have enough friends. I’m always looking to find new music I might enjoy, so recommend me something - I’m open to anything.
(And yes, I also want to have more friends than Jem because it was me who introduced her to last.fm and I’m miffed that she has more friends than me.)
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Not blogging about not blogging
This entry was posted on May 18, 2008
I always feel guilty when I don’t blog in a few days, and after looking back, it has been a week since I last posted! That definitely makes me feel guilty, though the guilt is lessened by the fact that new people have been commenting. Comments always make me happy.
I always tell people off for blogging about blogging, so I’m not going to mention the fact that I haven’t written a new blog entry in over a week. What I’ll talk about instead is what else I’ve been up to.
Last Saturday I travelled down to London to meet my friend Rob and go sightseeing. It was one of the hottest days of the year, but fortunately we didn’t melt too much.
First stop was Madame Tussaudes where we “met” such famous people as Christina Aguilera (who is far too thin), Richard Branson (who has manboobs), and Samuel L. Jackson (who’s really tall!).
The funniest part about Madame Tussaudes was the fact that people bumped into the waxworks and then apologised! Oh, what British-ness!
We then headed over to the London Eye, but the queue was about 5 hours long so we skipped that, instead settling for a walk along the side of the Thames where we saw a big clock, a protest, a well-endowed dragon, and a telephone box.
We eventually made it to the millennium bridge which wasn’t wobbling! I tried to get arty by holding my camera at an angle, and it was by sheer chance I managed to get this great photo of a seagull.
With plenty of free time due to skipping the London Eye, we went the long way to the Science Museum, ate at Wok in a box on Oxford Street, before finally tubing it over to Hyde Park where we traded Moo cards and took daft photos with the Macro setting on Rob’s camera.
Sunday was spent at the Give It A Name festival where I finally got to see Billy Talent (I’ve been wanting them to tour for years!) for the first time. The headline act was 30 Seconds to Mars, who I really couldn’t care less about seeing!
So that was last weekend. This last week has been spent busying away on projects, all of which should be launching soon. I feel like I haven’t stopped!
