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One day blog silence

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Sorry for the victims at Virginia Tech, sorry for the victims of Columbine and similar incidents, and sorry for the victims of the next inevitable atrocity.

To me, there is no point to a day of silence if you just trot off a list of victims and shake your head in sorrow. There is nothing gained, either, in my opinion, if you simply blame the US or Europe or multinationals for Third World death and misery and then tomorrow go back to doing what you were doing yesterday. The point of a day of reflection is to consider a solution to the terrible events going on all around you and all round the world.

Here's a solution. Forget curing the world's ills! You can only really make a difference to life from where you are at.

So the students at schools and universities around the world, accept that you probably don't know 95% of your fellows, even by sight, but if you make the effort to look out for the well-being of the people in your immediate sphere of influence, maybe one of them won't end up going on a killing spree.

Therefore, from tomorrow, do not to alienate the weirdoes.

That kid or student who never says anything to anyone, go speak to them.

That student who you think is a whacko, go talk to them.

That student with a black depression hanging over them when they walk around, make the effort to befriend them.

Look out for each other and the chances are students will all live happily ever after.

If it troubles you that more people die from malaria than any other disease or tragedy on earth, put aside some income to support agencies that help tackle the issue in the field. If it troubles you that poverty is wrong, change your buying habits and/or pay a bit more for your coffee and bananas. If you hate the idea of polluting your atmosphere, cycle to work or turn your furnace down a few degrees. Appreciating what you have and moderating your own behavior a little is much more sustainable and helpful in the long term than big emotional knee jerk gestures for a day or two.

Hard, isn't it, realising that on reflection, we are ultimately all responsible for making sure everything goes well with the world around us? Can't go blaming governments or multinationals or nutcases for everything. When necessary, think hard and then step up to the plate in a modest way. And if everyone does the same, boom, you have effected a huge change.

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MyBlogLog Sunday 7

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Today's the day for MyBlogLog Sunday part 7 at the Pisstakers. Time flies.

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Sorry guys, I seemed to be ill this morning. I thought it was Lime's Disease, then cholera, but the symptoms have gone after an extra snooze. So, it is a delayed coffee in hand, a snapshot and the 10 MyBlogLog bloggers who last visited the Pisstakers. These early morning/late night visitors will be the main feature on the homepage later today and will be here on view in some shape or form all week.

As this is week 7 and there seems to be a good formula in process, the following spiel is the same as last week's and is for for the benefit of newcomers. Thanks for your patience. Oh yeah, and Callie Ann won the gummi bears and review for sending most traffic to The Pisstakers. Congratulations Callie Ann.

By next Sunday the mini reviews will be farmed out for posterity to the archives, a permanent reminder of their glorious moment, a permanent back link, blah blah.

Whether you are a super surfer or a blogger, I hope you enjoy reading my one-liner summary before visiting 10 diverse blogs.

MyBlogLog Sunday prize winner

A pound of gummi bears and a review like these is on offer to which ever of last week's featured blogs refers the most traffic to The Pisstakers before midnight Saturday.

This week's MBL Sunday winner is Callie Ann, in case she missed the first mention.

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Weekly round-up of MyBloglog Sunday!

Other contests this week


Tango Cherie has a great link to a Win-a-Steak contest. Pure Argentinian beef, hormone free, happy cow meat, and lots of it.

Blog About Your Blog have upped the ante and sooner rather than later one of the first 200 to subscribe to their RSS feed will win a mini fridge. Hurry hurry.

The Pisstakers "You won't win a Zune" contest was launched quietly last week. The first one to guess what the mystery prize is from the clues, winzzzzzzzz. (Last week's introductory clue was, Anyone with taste will like it!) Today's second clue: It looks like a mouse but isn't furry.

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase web satire. It is a win-win, perhaps!

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Offfshore banking - for students!

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Ever had an off-shore bank account? Ever been a student at university living off a tiny annual loan? Ever heard of a bank manager offering a poor student an off-shore bank account? I can answer yes to all three questions. I was that student in that bank receiving the keys to that tax-free account in Jersey.

Talk about surreal. And funny too, having the same financial privacy and non-tax-paying privileges as the world's wealthiest people.

Imagine, I am making a toll free call to the Bank in Jersey to ask about the balance on my account (A few too many checks had gone out for books and rent.) The person who took my call talked to me like I was Onassis or Rockefeller, as well I might have been. The tone of their voice was a mix of reverence and enthusiasm. I was grinning from ear to ear, basking in the self importance. Then, of course, the tone of the person's voice changed as they saw my account details on the screen. From austere and reverent, he became a quick fire garbled street talker

Yeah, well, guv, it looks like you need to chuck some more dough in there, else we'll 'ave to charge yer a few quid for bounced checks. Bye, mate.

Oh, how the mighty are fallen. I closed my account some time later, crippled by the £50 a year account charge. All I can say on the positive side is that I am probably the only ex-student with that story to tell. Unless you know otherwise?

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It's magic, how they con you.

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Maybe it is a bloke thing, but I am really mesmerized by magic tricks. Anyone who can make a dove appear from a hat, or produce a handkerchief from a sleeve is alright in my book. And when the gothic mind takes over and those Penn and Teller guys introduced chainsaws and blood to the scene, bring it on.

In essence, I suppose I admire them as con men, rogues who could really screw with us, but choose to keep it friendly. And even though they are trickery personified, and you may not approve of con men, I think it takes a special kind of person to not only invent a trick, but to practice the moves time after time till they are perfectly natural. Respect!

Magicians are natural born con-men, and with the heat on, performing under the camera lense of TV, basically, they have continued to out-smart us. The cleverest are the magicians who started revealing their secrets. To me, thanks to these revelations, magic has become even more trick-laden than ever and we have even less chance of working them out.

For instance, we know it takes a fifth of a second to pull a sleight of hand, (or if you didn't know that, you do now!) and so we are focussing like mad on hands, unblinking, convinced we will see the trick in action. But the reality is, we have been told a few techniques in order to make us think we know what is going on, and worse than that delusion, now we look in places where the magicians have told us to look. I have no proof, but the trick of sleight of hand is probably a trick involving the feet or head, and the action is taking place wherever it is we no longer look. Clever see!

Criss Angel can't levitate for toffee, but he sure explains clearly how he makes us believe it. Kudos and respect.

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MyBlogLog Sunday 6: gummi bear & review winner

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Oh boy, why is it never easy giving away prizes? There is barely a gummi bear's nut hair separating 2nd to 4th, so thanks to Bobbarama, I Eat Snowman Poop and the Web Pen for entering into the spirit. Sorry Callie Ann, just too late with your call to arms, but you have a chance this week to woo 'em with the Pisstakers button links in your sidebar!

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And now the real dilemma. The clear winner, (although not by that great a margin as to constitute a walk-over), was Eric at MyBlogLog blog. Trouble is, strictly speaking, the blog isn't all his own work. So, are the co-authors going to fight over the bears, ripping them and themselves limb from limb in a rush to claim the prize? I hope not.

To try and keep the peace, I will send the prize gummis in several small packs, to reduce the chance of any in-house carnage. The review will come in one chunk, though.

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Allergic to hay, not allergic to change

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Sat here with my nose running and left eye awash with allergies, I am reminded of a happier time.

As a teenager, I was a big time asthma sufferer, and out of desparation, I went to a homeopathic doctor for a solution, This creepy little guy who resembled that character out of marathon Man, the lovely dentist, prescribed a series of 12 injections of jasmine juice. Whatever.

He was going to charge more than I could afford for the jabs, so he suggested I went to a regular doctor and asked if the nurse would do the injections. In hindsight he was quite the joker. Talk about land me in a storm.

My doctor went nuts accusing me of undermining him, going to a quack for alternative kooky treatment. How dare I expect him to administer this homeo crazy potion blah blah. Anyway, I just mentioned the minor detail that he hadn't been able to cure me in years, pumping me full of who knows what crap. That sort of shut him up, and to be fair, he let his nurse poke holes in me for 12 weeks, and you know what, it cured me totally. No controlling, or minimising symptons, a 100% end to asthma.

I had to smile when I was telling this story years later, and the person I was talking to said. "You do know that that doctor is now one of the leading lights in alternative medicine?" I didn't, but I was amazed, and I have to take my hat off to him, if I wore a hat.

Sadly I am being exposed to new allergens and the latest homeopathic anti-allergy tabs arent working at all, but you can't win em all. Time for some traditional poison to stop me dribbling onto the keyboard.

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George Clooney is the man

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I once met a couple of representatives from the World Vision charity. It was sad how detached they were from the real world and I coined an alternative motto: One world, no vision. Moving on.

Ocean's 11, 12 13 (thru 24?) star, George Clooney, is quite a guy. The talented and horribly handsome, amusing and genuinely nice actor was recently honored at a Hollywood we-love-George convention. It was a parade of pretty people, for sure, but it took an unexpected turn with footage of his time on the Chad-Sudan border. That is a less-than-glamorous place where the only masculine model normally considered worthy of adulation is George the Kalashnikov.

Camera in hand, George Clooney was with his old man, acquainting himself with the genocidal humanitarian disaster that most people only ever get a glimpse of via the press. He made a report, learnt lots, told the world what he saw.

Maybe Clooney will be criticised for using the African stint as a publicity stunt, a feel good for Hollywood factor? I hope not, because in my book, he is a fricking star of the real world stage.

Unlike the hundreds of millions of folks in the West who could easily put their lives on hold and go get a feel for the horror in Sudan, Clooney stood up and took a major risk. Yeah, right, I hear the cynics say, he was wrapped up in cotton wool.

Sure, I suspect George Clooney had a few advantages over the average traveler, but it is a perilous place even if you are well prepared. Armed guards aren't necessarily enough protection from determined bandits; hats don't protect your tender ass from the sun when you are having a dump in the desert; water purification pills aren't going to protect you when you eat watermelons; you can only drink so much coke and no water can be 100% safe, even if bottled; camel spiders don't differentiate between the blood of Hollywood stars and starving or shot up Sudanese. It is a harsh environment, folks, even when wrapped up in cotton wool.

No, I really hope nobody gets too cynical about Clooney, especially with so many losers in a position of power doing nothing about the genocide, or the likes of World Vision, missing the point. His eloquent words should be taken very seriously

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How different do you need to be?

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I just got back on the bike after a while away. It is a brilliant way to keep fit and healthy, and also it clears the mind like almost no other pastime can, for me at least. Out in the open air, at one with the world, I was reminded of a story that had me shaking my head at the time.

A few years ago, I went with a jet set friend of mine from Australia to the top bike builder in the UK. He asked to be fitted for a hand-made mountain bike. After looking through the options for different types of steel, colors and finishes, he told the owner he wanted something different. The old boy looked at him funny and asked, "How different do you want to be, we only make 5 mountain bikes a year!"

Anyway, he got his way, and if you see a chrome mountain bike around the streets of Sidney, that is my mate on a mega expression of his need to be different. I don't know that it will be rolling along any faster than the rest, but it will sure blind you more than most - the reflection off of his smile, that is.

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MyBlogLog Sunday 6

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Today's the day for MyBlogLog Sunday part 6 at the Pisstakers.

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At 10.59, cold coffee in hand, I took a snapshot of the 10 MyBlogLog bloggers who last visited the Pisstakers. These early morning/late night visitors will be the main feature on the homepage later today and will be here on view in some shape or form all week.

By next Sunday the mini reviews will be farmed out for posterity to the archives, a permanent reminder of their glorious moment, a permanent back link, blah blah.

Whether you are a super surfer or a blogger, I hope you enjoy reading my one-liner summary before visiting 10 diverse blogs.



MyBlogLog Sunday prize winner

A pound of gummi bears and a review like these is on offer to which ever of last week's featured blogs refers the most traffic to The Pisstakers before midnight Saturday.

This week's MBL Sunday winner was Eric.

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

All hot mini reviews on MyBloglog Sunday!

Internet buzz on MyBloglog Sunday!

How to participate in MyBloglog Sunday!

Weekly round-up of MyBloglog Sunday!

Other contests this week


Existential Ventures have a Canon Printer to give away as part of their MyBlogLog GiveAway. Easy to enter, no hoops to jump through, but if you make the effort to blog about it, you increase your chances of winning the draw, which happens when his MBL community hits 500 members.

Blog About Your Blog must be getting close to giving away a mini fridge to one of the first 200 to subscribe to their site Hurry along, you know you want one.

The Details had a winner of the funny cat contest. Who says cats are cute? Nathan doesn't care, he has $100 worth of prizes to admire. We eagerly await the next opportunity to win something.

The Pisstakers "You won't win a Zune" contest will be underway later this week. The first one to guess what the mystery prize is from the clues, winzzzzzzzz. (As an introductory clue, anyone with taste will like it!)

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase funny stuff . It is a win-win, perhaps!

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MyBlogLog Sunday, a Technorati fiddle?

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I was looking around the internet at different Technorati gaming strategies. There are some clever folks out there. One by one they seem to hit a wall, though, and Technorati puts their foot down. I don't know if they all deserve Technorati's wrath, but secretly (or not now I am going to reveal all!) I don't much care for winning by any means. It is why I have never won much, I guess!

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It got me thinking that perhaps MyBlogLog Sunday was considered in that sphere of link love influence. Every Sunday, I record the last 10 MyBlogLog bloggers to visit the Pisstakers before I hit blogging mode. When I have also picked out a witty comment of the week from a MyBlogLog visitor, I write a slightly witty mini review of each site with plenty of links included.

Admittedly, Technorati does like The Pisstakers a little more each day, but for the most part, to any cynics out there, the only hidden agenda in the MyBlogLog Sunday idea is that I am promoting (in a mini way) the MyBlogLog community members who can be bothered to visit The Pisstakers on a traditionally quiet Sunday. In turn, some alert their visitors to my site and traffic comes back my way. So, from where I am sitting, I don't see myself as a link lover per se. I simply thought that writing and linking and interacting with people, not robots and scripts, was how the internet worked!

Looking out from my ivory tower, the feature seems to be a welcome addition to the blog world, MyBlogLog themselves are supportive in their quiet way, and people with sweet teeth love the prize of 1lb of gummi bears. (That mighty prize plus indepth review, goes to the top referrer amongst the 10 mini reviewed bloggers.) All told, this weekly feature has helped create some buzz. but has not artificially inflated rankings for The Pisstakers, at least I don't think it has. Others may think different? Let me know.

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I haven't really thought of MyBlogLog Sunday as a way to game MyBlogLog either. I had about 40 contacts at the start, and am adding about 10 a week. Not exactly going well if I am trying to get in the top 10!

Remember, any blogger who writes a post about MyBlogLog Sunday or mentions their mini review, should tag it in Technorati. I will find it and you will get a second link - amidst a real sentence or two!

Oh yeah, when I review blogs on Sundays, I do spend time looking around, usually start on the homepage, go to the About Page and then on from there. I also try to find the good bits, but if there aren't any, I will say so too. As we all know, love hurts sometimes!! See you tomorrow.


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MyBlogLog Sunday 5: gummi bear & review winner Update

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After great debate and hand-wringing, Polli has magnanimously surrendered her gummi bears and review prize to a worthy runner-up, Linda at Are We There Yet?

(Polli's real motive was to pass on the cost of gummi-related dental work to someone else and Polli is now eating the last of her pink gummis with toothbrush in hand and a smile of relief on her face.)

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Put death on the curriculum

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When I was at school, back in the day of Latin plus metalwork for boys, cooking for girls, we used to have assemblies. You know, where the whole school would meet up, bleary eyed first thing in the morning to fidget and elbow and hit each other while the head droned on about the latest timetable changes, canings, sports results... But once a month, a teacher had to give a talk to the mob.

One guy really had us listening hard. He starts, "Over the next 10 years, half of you will be married, half of those will end up divorced and regardless of whether you get married or not, 5 of you will be dead!"


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White men in Wawa

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True life is always better than fiction. In the wake of the Imus racist language fiasco, I was in Wawa buying some milk colored milk and tan colored bagels. The person behind the counter was a female homo sapiens whose ancestors originated from African America.

She pressed some buttons on her register and the screen didn't display what she expected. After a few seconds she started to get flustered, looking embarrassed, staring at the screen. Then the electronics kicked in and all was well.

In relief she burst out, "I was just goin' to say to bring the white man in the coat to take me away. I mean, the men in the white jackets, I mean, oh, I don't know what I mean."

It was funny, we both laughed,

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Some painters are stupid, some aren't.

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On construction sites they say, "If you can piss you can paint." As someone who used to teach trade apprentices how to paint, I sort of disagree. My stock reply to shut them up was, "If that is true, paint the toilet bowl so it doesn't peel."

I know how to paint glass and plastic and I know most people wouldn't have a clue how to go about it - especially hairy assed builders.

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MyBlogLog Sunday 5: gummi bear & review winner

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Sunday's mini review extravaganza is at the bottom of this homepage!
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1lb of gummi bears + indepth review goes to whichever of the 10 blogs featured last week refers the most traffic to The Pisstakers up to midnight Saturday this week.

Unless one of last week's bloggers owns Stumble Upon, the winner is Polliwog's Pond. Yay!

Again, congratulations, Polli, the technique to post and refer your many fans to The Pisstakers last week has worked!

Please bear in mind, I only have the mighty Awstats to go on, not a crystal ball, so, as long as the traffic comes direct from your domain, it will be registered.

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Of cats and men

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The Egyptians revered cats, treating them like 4 legged gods. On reflection, I don't think I have a trace of Egyptian in me.

To be honest, I am not an animal lover, but before animal lovers go nuts and tune out... if it makes you feel any better, I had a massive debate with some religious nut whose views on dominion over animals made me glad I am not into religion.
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MyBlogLog Sunday 5

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Dalai lama, cards and murder

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I read some inspiring posts by Peter, a master of thought over at Necessary Skills. Peter explains how, as a younger man, he read that the secret to life is to be happy - but it seemed too simplistic. His doubts sent him on a lifetime journey to find a more substantial answer.

After years of fruitless searching, he eventually went back to the first answer and has lived happily ever after. That will teach him to ignore the Dalai Lama.

Whist and murder


Some years ago, I spent time in Nepal,
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This parrot is dead.

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A friend used to have a parrot, and it was a bastard that used to peck everyone whenever it was allowed to fly around the house. To make life somewhat bearable, they let it free in the loft, out of harm's way, then coaxed it down when it was time for bed. (btw, I would peck too if I was that intelligent and sentenced to being kept in a loft and a cage for most of my 50 years on earth.)
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MyBlogLog Sunday 4: gummi bear & review winner

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1lb of gummi bears + indepth review goes to whichever of the 10 blogs featured last week refers the most traffic to The Pisstakers up to midnight Saturday this week.

Amid drum rolls and cheering, this week's winner of gummi bears and a review is bobbarama.Yay!


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Gordon the goat

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I was laughing my head off at a documentary piece on Gordon, a billy goat held as a pet in a suburban English garden. He was big, even for a billy, and his owner was a pint-size quintissentially English woman.

Basically, until the animal behaviorist got stuck in, the goat ruled the house. The funny bits of a serious documentary were
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Monday morning blues

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Blimey, it's Monday already. Or more to the point, it's Monday afternoon. Ooops. That was a late start. But I have an excuse.

MyBlogLog Sunday seemed to capture the imagination and has generated more comments, feedback and spin-off articles than ever before in the history of the internet, Pisstakers. The 10 blogs captured at 11.04 in the MyBlogLog widget in my sidebar yesterday received a masterful one liner review from Yours truly, Ed.
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MyBlogLog Sunday 4 summary

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Update: Hello again. And on Easter day he constructed MyBlogLog Sunday part 4 at the Pisstakers.

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At 11.04 Easter Day coffee time, I took a snapshot of the 10 MyBlogLog bloggers who last visited the Pisstakers. This is the gang with the homepage to themselves later on Sunday. Whether you are a super surfer or a blogger, I hope you enjoy reading my one-liner summary before visiting 10 diverse blogs.

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In and out of a canoe

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There was some tragic news when a couple of teens drowned while canoeing in County Down, Ireland, England. Fortunately, their buddy was a strong swimmer and reached the shore, where he is recovering from shock. The incident unfolded only 40 feet from safety, which is a bit sad. So near yet so far, and a telling indictment of how dangerous water can be.

As a former dabbler in canoeing, I
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Participants in funny quotes widget

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Earlier in the week I released a funny quotes widget, a joint venture that blends humor and stylish Italian design to produce a distinctive piece of entertaining eye candy for the masses. It seems to be quite safe!! Try it with confidence. In return for taking it for a spin ( just copy & paste it into a sidebar) there are a couple of positives for site owners.


Add your own quote


This widget is a traffic magnet. For instance, install the widget on your site, send me a quote and a URL of your choice (ie a link to your site, maybe?) and I will add it to the looping widget. The quote will appear on all widgets everywhere, including a link back to your site. A neat and entertaining way to get your blog or website noticed.

Pete at Slouvaki for the Soul did just that and now his insightful chocolate and women quote is on websites such as: his own, mine, A Piece of Me, Necessary Change and, The Best Bit of the Internet, (where Andy reports no issues so far - although that may change when people read his dastardly quote). I am Blog sent a quote which I am using, but the code is too much hard work for a basic Wordpress theme to handle, apparently. Anyway, technicalities aside, the traffic will still flow the way of the widgetless blog about blogging.

Join a Photo gallery


If you tell me the widget is installed, I will also call by and take a screenshot, and when I have a decent number, I will produce a photo gallery. If nothing else it will add a little insight into how different (or similar?) your sidebar theme is from the rest.

So, all aboard the widget train. Here is some more funny quotes info if you don't quite grasp my early morning ramblings. And as an aside, I have advertised for testers at a couple of webmaster forums , so again, you will have a chance of exposure as inquisitive and highly hard to please technical types check it out. Who knows, they may discover your site and like it enough to return.




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I have a crap dishwasher

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It's official, we have a crap dishwasher from a good appliances company.

I now have a list of instructions from a very switched-on technician. It is a How to tweak your dishwasher for dummies. Turn the heat up to 120 degrees, don't let any plates protrude below rack section A and C. Run the waste disposal first, don't let that tube kink; make sure the pots and pans cycle is on if you want really clean dishes...
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Trawlerman v interior designer

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There was an interesting illustration of how one man's crisis is another man's shrug. If you watched the Discovery channel series on World's Most Dangerous jobs, followed by a design reality show, you would know what I mean.

Imagine working 40 hours straight in the coldest, wettest weather imaginable,
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MyBlogLog Sunday 3

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And did I mention there is a prize winner too!

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A pound of gummi bears and full blog review are coming Polliwog's way. Read about the winner below


How to be a winner


All bloggers have won a back-link! I will endeavor to use key words for links, but hey, I'm not the expert on your site. So, all featured bloggers who tell me their keyphrase can walk away with heads held high, knowing they have "won" a golden backlink included in the comment about their blog.

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