In between my Team Fortress 2 sessions and chronic masturbation, I check various things on the Internet including my email, Twitter, and this website. Tonight while perving on my blog views, I noticed someone found this website by searching for “Just take my money”.
While I don’t consider myself a charity, I am more than happy to take your money sir or madam. Email me, we’ll talk. Winky face.
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Woke up twenty minutes before my alarm.The last two haven’t happened yet, but they will in the next 15 minutes. Woo.
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Now I can really dislike trends on Tumblr. They’re usually stupid “REBLOG IF YOU X’D WHENYOU Y’D.” scenarios, and well, I think it’s fucking retarded.
However, there’s one I’ve seen called, as the title suggests, the 30 Day Challenge. Basically, every day for thirty days you write a blog post centred around the items on the list. Being that I’ve been having trouble writing about anything other than games lately, I see this as a perfect way to hopefully get the writing juices flowing again.
While I’ll be posting them all here, this is technically a Tumblr thing, so I’ll be linking to all these posts from there. So if you’re one of the ten whole people who read this blog and you also follow me on Tumblr, you’re going to get double posted. Enjoy!
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Looking at the stats page for this very website, I was surprised to see that for the first time in a very long time, someone had linked to me. Curious, I visited that blog to see where they referenced me. Reading the whole post twice, I couldn’t see where they did it. That’s when I noticed it; they had stolen one of my pictures. The picture in question is this screenshot I took of Farmville when I used to play it.
I wouldn’t mind, except the person responsible didn’t just use my picture; he’s leeching off MY hosting. This of course, leads to potential trolling awesomeness. Observe this comparison of his blog post as I found it, then the blog post after I did some file editing on my hosting:
Much better, don’t you think? Hopefully he’ll think twice before leeching. Also, free advertising! If you want to see it for yourself, you need go no further than http://chronicdog.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-casual-games-arent-worth-playing.html
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It’s not unknown that I’m obsessed with Team Fortress 2. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that now I’m contributing posts to a new blog dedicated to the game.
Doc_Swarley has started the site for posting game news, discuss maps and classes, strategies, and anything else really to do with the game. There are three of us writing for the site, so there is bound to be quite varied writings and opinions.
It’s still new, but you can check it out at Escaping With The Papers. My first post on it is up and discusses the new update teaser, which indicated that Valve will be adding the ability to make your own motherfucking weapons (awesome).
If you like the game as much as I do, give it a look and maybe drop a comment or two.
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This was meant to be the two hundredth post here, but like last milestone, I missed it.
I have experienced a bit of a down period in relation to things to write about, which has resulted in numerous posts which are just random thoughts and connected short writings. They were fun and helped in the writers block (I thank Rubenerd for the suggestion. It helped). The themes have pretty much been posted once or twice before; I started the Sometimes series of posts a while back, and have been listing monthly top 25 songs for awhile too.
However due to lack of inspiration, the amount I’ve been posting has increased a little (I’ve posted Sometimes #2 #3 and #4 now) and started Things That Make Me A Bad Person (#1 and #2). They’re really fun to write, as short as they are. Expect more soon, I guess.
Back in the beginning of September, I hit the 150 post milestone. To celebrate, I came up with the idea for 10 Cent Charity, in which for every comment made on it by the end of this month, I would donate ten cents to Blood:Water Mission’s cause. At the time of writing this, the comments have reached around the 120 mark, and I’m making one last futile attempt to increase it before the end of October. It’s been quite fun surprisingly, and it feels good to know I’m donating to a good cause.
In other news, I also started something I’d talked about for awhile; the “girls” blog. Since I copied Rubenerd and merged all my sub-domains and the like together, the title, and home of the blog became How To Fail At Girls. You can see it, up there in the menu bar (well you can if you’re cool and reading this on the actual website instead of RSS). I’m still settling on what and how to write in there, but there’s a few pieces on it at the moment, a couple of which I’m quite happy with; the story of my first kiss, and a post about how I tend to say really stupid things to the opposite sex.
It’s a fun project.
This is post 201, and I’m still amazed at how long I’ve kept at this thing. I’m loving this.
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I love message boards. While I’m not as active on them as I used to be, I used to live on roughly twenty different forums, and would post left right and centre. The conversations had on them were priceless and I had lots of fun.
Darren Rowse, creator and runner of Problogger and TwiTip has recently opened his latest venture; Problogger Community. The website is a paid community message board specially for bloggers to promote their sites and discuss blogging techniques. After just a week it already has well over two thousand active members.
I paid for a months subscription (at the moment the site costs $1.95 USD a month, but Darren has said that as the site gets bigger and things get added the price for NEW subscribers will go up, so it’s pretty cheap.), and wasn’t sure what to expect.
However, once my payment finally went through and I had access to the boards, I was impressed. While some of the discussions don’t prove directly helpful, it’s good reading. There’s a community challenge held weekly as well, which is a really good idea to encourage interaction between people and their blogs, and plenty of opportunities to be exposed to other people’s writing styles.
It’s a great way to improve my writing and blogging, and I thought it’d be something cool to show you guys, if you were interested and had the money to burn.
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So I just realized last post was the big one hundred. I’d planned to write a semi reflective piece, be full of myself, and link to a few of my favourite posts. However, I’ll have to do that for number one hundred and one, aka THIS POST.
So I’ve hit more posts on this blog than I’ve ever had in any of my other failed ventures. I’ve become über happy with my ability to commit to something, even if it is as simple as what is essentially an online journal. The fact that it’s been almost seven months and I haven’t tired of it shows that I’m changing in some way for the better. If I can stick with anything for that period of time no matter how stupid it is, I’m sure it’s a step in the right direction.
I’ve loved writing for ages, and this has been a fun outlet for myself, and I’m glad that you, and anyone for that matter, have actually read and responded to even a few of my posts. It means a lot, and I look forward to more in the future.
Here’s some of my favourite posts from this time, for various reasons.
And that’s that part done; here’s to another meaningless hundred posts! Who knows what’ll happen between now and then? I DON’T. And if I did, I wouldn’t tell you. Also, Aly still has homosexual tendencies and is extremely small compared to other less height impaired individuals.
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I am writing for TechMasher.com a bit now, just writing about random technology and computer things as they happen or I suddenly take an interest in them. I’m still trying to get comfortable so I’m not entirely comfortable with one or two bits of the posts, but I’m working on it. Here’s a small list of the posts I’ve got on there now (not many, of course, but what can you do). If you could take a look, I’d appreciate it. Woot.
Thanks for looking at them, feel free to let me know on Twitter how much you hated them. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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The other day, I bought the eBook 31 Days To Build A Better Blog, and it has given me plenty of ideas, and helped me lots in my blogging.
I love blogging, but often, in particular on my other blog WolfingTime, I have trouble coming up with new content. This results in either long gaps in my posts, or a complete loss of interest, which happened to a few of my other blogging endeavours. I’ve been determined to not let that happen again, but it’s hard. I’ve been reading other blogs to get ideas and helpful tips on blogging. The most helpful site of which I’ve come across is Problogger, which I coincidently came upon just after the start of a blogging program where every day the author posted a new task. These tasks allowed those involved in the program, or just the casual reader, to improve their blog with strategic exercises, and instructions on types of blog posts to make.
Reading it, I found many ideas that were completely unique to me, including an entire post on going shopping to improve your blog; despite being unusual, that was informative and quite a brilliant idea.
To top off how well done the program was, Darren Rowse made the entire thing available in the form of a professional looking 31DBBB eBook. Buying it set me back roughly twenty dollars, but it’s so far been worth it. It’s given me a reference for blogging that I can do in my own time; which in the case of WolfingTime is one post a week. It’s amazing because it even has several ways to get past writers block; which is evil.
As a final addition, Problogger encourages buyers to subscribe to an email newsletter which sends additional tasks for the program as time goes on, a nice little touch which keeps the 31DBBB fresh.
Being obsessed with blogs, it’s definitely a good cheap read for me, and it’s definitely worth plenty more than what it’s being sold for. I’m really happy I bought it.
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