Best of Feeds – 47 links – programming, blogging, career, blog, interview, fizzbuzz
Best of Feeds is a regular series where I link to the stuff I found interesting from my feed reader. Links are sorted based on how many people have bookmarked them on del.icio.us. They are posted as asides daily at 7pm EST and then collected together in a single post on Saturday. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.
This time I have 47 links from: barcamp, baron.vc, labnotes, outer-court, bradfitzpatrick, burningbird, codecraft.info, codinghorror, connectedinternet.co.uk, defmacro, dev.tufuncion, dilbertblog, diveintomark, dr-razavi, emacspeak, expatsoftware, firefoxies, gregladen, guelphmercury, haacked, headrush, icecreamgangsigns, imdb, johnchow, kbcafe, labnol, lostgarden, modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk, ofzenandcomputing, poynter, problogger, publishing2, randsinrepose, readwriteweb, scottberkun, sheldoncomics, thrillingwonder, violentacres, weblog.raganwald, webomatica, wired, zafar.se, zenhabits, zod2008
Getting Started with Google Code Hosting, Subversion, and TortoiseSVN without feeling like an Idiot
I’ve been using Google’s open source project hosting to distribute my Tag Cloud Generator, but I haven’t been using the source code repository feature. They have a hard-to-find guide on getting started with the Subversion source control system, but the world needs something better. With screenshots. Plus I haven’t fed the blog recently.
You can find more information about Subversion and source control by reading a chapter of this book.
Most Popular Posts for February 2007
I used to write these statistics posts once a month when I first started blogging. I’ve stopped for the most part, but decided to write this one because February 2007 was the highest traffic month I’ve had so far on //engtech.
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The Missing Curriculum for Programmers and High Tech Workers
I’ve been thinking about what I learned in University and more importantly what I’ve learned since University. These are the essential subjects and skills that were completely ignored at the University level, but would have been very useful to have. They might not have worked as full courses, but a lecture or seminar on the subjects would have helped.
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What’s a URL to do? – How to Save URLs
The World Wide Web is an apt analogy. We’re all spiders spinning threads of links. Some people spin their threads with blogs, while others do it with social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, Digg, reddit or Netscape (see them all at popurls).
One thing that bothers me about these social bookmarking sites is that they don’t do a good job of knowing when two links point to the same document. Ignoring the malicious users who purposely try to resubmit something using slightly different links, there are the flaws in the social bookmarking sites themselves.
Tag Cloud Generator – Final?
Another version of the Tag Cloud Generator has been released.
- Fixed a bug where it only worked if your user profile was set to English
- I only tested Spanish directly.
- Fixed a bug with categories with non-alphanumeric/accented characters
- I may be missing some accented characters
- Supports any WordPress Multi-user site that’s running the same version of WordPress-MU as WordPress.com
- It should support edublogs.org, uniblogs.org, eslblogs.org — learnerblogs.org looks like it’s running an older version of WordPress-MU and there might be issues.
- I only tested edublogs.org directly.
- Can edit advanced options from within the program.
- Makes switching sorting from alphabetical/size easier.
I was looking into making a version of it for Macs and/or making an easier install version for Linux but so far no luck.
From the Vault: Making the Most Out of Tagging
Too busy to post, so I thought I’d grab something old and make it new.
This one talks about tagging, semantics, and folksonomy. It’s on the dry side but I think the overall message is sound: when tagging use popular high ranking tags and use a lot of them.
It is missing one important part of tagging and that is the “wisdom of the crowds”. Tagging works for sites like del.icio.us and flickr because all users can add tags to a document. It doesn’t work as well when only one user can add tags to a document.
Best of Feeds – 15 links – blogging, google, reader, photo, windows, orthogonality
Best of Feeds is a regular series where I link to the stuff I found interesting from my feed reader. Links are sorted based on how many people have bookmarked them on del.icio.us. They are posted as asides daily at 7pm EST and then collected together in a single post on Saturday. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.
This time I have 15 links from: adultaddstrengths, artima, comeeko, dilbertblog, guild, influks, joelonsoftware, mikebogo, nbrightside, netbusinessblog, problogger, stuff.mit.edu, sunsite3.berkeley.edu, tagcrowd
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Tag Cloud Generator Update
Less than 24 hrs and 40 downloads later… I have my first update based on user feedback.
Changes
- Lesser categories are the smallest size (drmike)
- Default sort order changed from alphabetical to biggest first, like the wordpress.com tag pages (fracas)
- See my tag cloud to see what I mean
- There is a hidden setting for changing it back to alphabetical
- Blog url has “http://” prefilled the first time the program is run (urban semiotic)
- tagcloud_css.html comments corrected (urban semiotic)
- When the advanced “display count” is used, it is no longer part of the link
- Added “line-height” to CSS styles so the cloud isn’t as messy
Known Issues
- There may be a problem with categories that have accent characters (entomoagricola)
- Add support for *any* WordPress MU site (edublogs/uniblogs) (mpb)
Tag Cloud Generator for WordPress.com
Ask nicely and you shall receive. I’ve created a program that let’s you create tag clouds on WordPress.com blogs. I said I was going to do this a long time ago, but there was approximately another 30 hours of work to bring the program from the level where I could use to the level where someone else could install and use it.
Digest for February 2006
Every two to three weeks I publish a digest for subscribers who are would rather take their //engtech in infrequent chugs rather than frequent sips.
Subscribe to this digest using RSS.
If you’re a blogger you can get win a prize by participating in my group writing project.
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National Engineering Week
Every blogger knows that when you put your email address on your About Me page you get a certain amount of “press release” spam from people who want you to check out their project or site and write about it. This often creates something like the over justification effect where if I had discovered it myself I might have written about it, but because someone is asking me I will put it off and put it off.
I seem to have gone full circle recently to the point where I have often been getting press releases of stuff I find interesting and germane to the subjects I usually blog about.
Case in point: February 18th to 24th is Engineer’s Week (don’t worry, *nobody* got me anything for it). MathMovesU is featuring an engineer each day of the week and is offering daily math contests with prizes.
Daily Prizes
- Walkie Talkies
- Remote Control Rocket
- $75 Gift Certificate to Toys R Us
- Remote Control Car
Grand Prizes
- 30GB iPOD
- Lego Mindstorms Robot
The contest is open to residents of the US between the age of 10 to 14. You do not have to get the correct answer to enter the contest, and because of US legislature you can enter just by sending your name to a mail address.
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StumbleUpon Help: I Can’t Submit a Site or Page
(photo by kosmar)
I’m a big fan of StumbleUpon. If you’ve never tried it out it can be described as “channel surfing for the Internet” (especially their video-only version). You stumble to a random page on the Internet, mark that you like or don’t like it and then it will bring you to other pages based on what other people with the same interests like. It’s very cool. I try to get people to use it all the time.
Several of my friends are using it, but a couple of them have given it up because of problems where they can’t submit sites or “Thumbs Up” pages any more. I didn’t know how to fix their problem until recently when it started happening to me.
The problem is all in the toolbar. StumbleUpon has a toolbar for FireFox and Internet Explorer and every now and then they update it with a new version. Unfortunately, the toolbar doesn’t always auto-update immediately (or at all). When your toolbar is out of date you can’t submit new pages and sometimes you can’t vote on pages.
The fix is quite simple. Whenever you notice that you can’t submit pages anymore click on this link and it will prompt you to re-install the toolbar.
Problem solved!
Getting to Simple – Engineers Have No Idea How Normal Human Beings Interact With Their Environments
One of the best known programming axioms is KISS — Keep It Simple, Stupid [wiki].
It is something I have incredible difficulty with.
This past weekend was filled with reminders of KISS. There were multiple comments on the complexity of my blog design. I was putting together a GUI for a WordPress.com tool even though I usually exclusively program for the command line. I finished off the weekend by reading Cory Doctorow’s “Eastern Standard Tribes” where the main character is a user experience guru with nothing but distain for engineers and computer scientists and their inability to grasp how non-geeks think:
“I spent the next couple hours running an impromptu focus group, watching the kids and their bombshell nannies play with it. By the time that Marta touched my hand with her long cool fingers and told me it was time for her to get the kids home for their nap, I had twenty-five toy ideas, about eight different ways to use the stuff for clothing fasteners, and a couple of miscellaneous utility uses, like a portable crib.
“So I ran it down for my pal that afternoon over the phone, and he commed his boss and I ended up eating Thanksgiving dinner at his boss’s house in Westchester.”
“Weren’t you worried he’d rip off your ideas and not pay you anything for them?” Szandor’s spellbound by the story, unconsciously unrolling and re-rolling an Ace bandage.
“Didn’t even cross my mind. Of course, he tried to do just that, but it wasn’t any good-they were engineers; they had no idea how normal human beings interact with their environments. The stuff wasn’t self-revealing-they added a million cool features and a manual an inch thick. After prototyping for six months, they called me in and offered me a two-percent royalty on any products I designed for them.”
It would be funny if it wasn’t so painfully true. I’d happily add features until I ended up with a monstrosity like this. My subconscious is a hamster in a wheel inside my head. He’s wearing black-rimmed coke-bottle lenses and a pocket protector. This is what he’s thinking:
I like coding.
Adding features means more coding.
Tweaking existing code that already works fine means more coding.
If I let something be finished then that means I’ll have to stop coding.
I like coding.
My favorite post I’ve ever read on the subject of simplicity is Joel Spolsky’s critique of the Windows Vista start menu: “each additional choice makes complete sense until you find yourself explaining to your uncle that he has to choose between 15 different ways to turn off a laptop.”
But even he notes that the answer to simplicity isn’t having less features. Having a sparse highly usable design is a feature in itself. The key is to have robust features without confronting the user with multiple choices. Simplicity is actually quite complex — which makes sense because otherwise Apple and 37signals would be the rules, not the exceptions.
John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity provides some rough guidelines for Getting to Simple:
- Reduce – The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
- Organize – Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
- Time – Savings in time feel like simplicity.
- Learn – Knowledge makes everything simpler.
- Differences – Simplicity and complexity need each other.
- Context – What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.
- Emotion – More emotions are better than less.
- Trust – In simplicity we trust.
- Failure – Some things can never be made simple.
- The One – Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
Part of the reason why I blog is because it forces me to work on soft skills like this. It’s a subject I need to learn more about.
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Best of Feeds – 39 links – humor, google, marketing, howto, seo, tips
Best of Feeds is a regular series where I link to the stuff I found interesting from my feed reader. Links are sorted based on how many people have bookmarked them on del.icio.us. They are posted as asides daily at 7pm EST and then collected together in a single post on Saturday. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.
This time I have 39 links from: adorablay, baron.vc, bittbox, erald, compsci.ca, cornwallseo, cs.tlu.ee, davidairey, destructoid, developertesting, dougal.gunters, eventhelix, fashion4nerds, filmschoolrejects, flickr, gizmodo, google, jeremy.zawodny, jonkenpon, linkbuildingblog, microisvjournal, nbrightside, neatorama, online.wsj, optimizeandprophesize, reviewbasics, samdelacruz, scobleizer, searchenginejournal, sliceofscifi, steve-yegge, troubleshooters, web5.uottawa.ca, webomatica, wilwheaton
- [SMO] The Wizards of Buzz (online.wsj.com, 346 saves)
- (digg, social, marketing, buzz, socialsoftware, socialbookmarking, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, delicious, reddit, Web2.0)
- The most interesting part of this is the photos of the top users of digg/reddit/del.icio.us/stumbleupon.
- [DESIGN] bittbox.com (bittbox.com, 314 saves)
- (webdesign, design, css, free, graphics)
- Bitbox offers a lot of design elements for free in vector formats.
- [CODE] Optimizing C and C++ Code (eventhelix.com, 281 saves)
- (howto, programming, c++, c, optimization)
- Guidelines for how to optimize C/C++ code based on knowledge of how the compiler works.
- [GADGETS] Joel Johnson Returns…to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap – Gizmodo (gizmodo.com, 250 saves)
- (technology, gizmodo, gadgets, humor)
- From the article: ” Stop buying this crap. Just stop it. You don’t need it. Wait a year until the reviews come out and the other suckers too addicted to having the very latest and greatest buy it, put up a review, and have moved on to something else.”
- [CODE] The Next Big Language (steve-yegge.blogspot.com, 228 saves)
- (programming, languages, software, coding, development)
- Stevey on what’s need for the next big programming language.
- [CATZ] Cats listing to electronic music (cs.tlu.ee, 167 saves)
- (humor, images, funny, Cats, mycatbloglog)
- I’d seen some of these before, but never all at once.
- [GEEK] Top 10 Fashion Suggestions for Nerds (fashion4nerds.com, 154 saves)
- (fashion, tips, clothing, geek, nerds, advice)
- From the article: ” While creating Fashion4Nerds.com, we interviewed over 30 young women between the ages of 18 and 32 about their likes and dislikes when it comes to guys’ fashion. We even asked them to give special attention to why they consider us Nerds unfashionabl”
- [BLOGS] JavaScript Badges and Widgets Considered Harmful (jeremy.zawodny.com, 67 saves)
- (JavaScript, widgets, security, web, rss, mybloglog, web2.0)
- Be happy that WP.com doesn’t allow Javascript. It’s a good, if sometimes frustrating solution to the many problems of javascript widgets.
- [RSS] Google Reader – Common Questions for Publishers (google.com, 50 saves)
- (google, media, reader, rss)
- Google Reader tips for content publishers. More general info for producing RSS.
- [SEO] The Enormous Linkbait list (cornwallseo.com, 48 saves)
- (linkbaiting, linkbuilding, links, tips, seo)
- ye grate list o linkbaiting tips
- [MOVIES] How To Survive a Horror Movie! (sliceofscifi.com, 44 saves)
- (humor, movies, funny, horror, tips, humour)
- [NOFOLLOW] 13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck (searchenginejournal.com, 39 saves)
- (nofollow, google, search, seo, spam)
- Why NOFOLLOW doesn’t work.
- [SEO] The Ultimate Guide To Increasing Web Traffic (linkbuildingblog.com, 31 saves)
- (blogging, SEO, traffic, marketing, howto)
- Neil rustles up some SEO links for bloggers. Good primer.
- [SEO] 7 Rules for Landing Page Optimization (optimizeandprophesize.com, 21 saves)
- (copywriting, SEO, optimization)
- 1. Have a Clear and Direct Headline 2. Place High Value on Whitespace 3. Deliver Your Value Proposition with Short Direct Messaging 4. Have a Persuasive Message Directly Above the Call to Action
- [SMO] What is social media? (scobleizer.com, 13 saves)
- (smo, socialsoftware)
- Scoble gives a nice small overview of what is social media.Good introduction.
- [PERL] Perl OOP (troubleshooters.com, 12 saves)
- (perl, oop, tutorial)
- Very simple object oriented Perl tutorial
- [DIGG] what happened to digg? (wilwheaton.typepad.com, 11 saves)
- (digg, reddit, social, Culture, sucks)
- Wil Wheaton on WTF happened to Digg’s community that now it’s a mob of vandals. Wisdom of the mobs?
- [FEEDBACK] ReviewBasics (reviewbasics.com, 8 saves)
- (collaboration, review, web2.0, tools)
- cool web20 site for getting feedback on products or websites.
- [DESIGN] Flags of contemplation (davidairey.com, 6 saves)
- (design, politics)
- Several flags of the world with legends describing what the colours represent to give a political message.
- [FLICKR] Consumerist.com Using Flickr images without attribution? (flickr.com, 6 saves)
- (copyright, flickr, photography)
- Flickr users are up in arms about attributation. I have to admit that I’m not always the best at doing this as well.
- [MICROISV] How To Deal With Abusive Customers (microisvjournal.wordpress.com, 5 saves)
- (customersupport, tech)
- From the article: ” If you weren’t so abrasive and rude, I would’ve refunded your money – even though we are under *no* legal obligation to do so. I am now marking your email address as spam and your communication will no longer get through. If you don’t want to”
- [TEST] Testivus – Testing for the rest of us (developertesting.com, 3 saves)
- (softwaredevelopment, testing)
- -Less testing dogma, more testing karma -Any tests are better than no tests -Testing beats debugging -Test first, during, or after ” whatever works best for you -If a method, technique, or tool, gives you more or better tests use it
- [GEEK] 5 Ways to say Be My Valentine to a Geek (jonkenpon.com, 3 saves)
- (geek, humor)
- ROFLFLMAOAMAOLOLOLOL
- [SEO] Flash is Nice, However Words Get You Found (blogherald.com, 3 saves)
- (webdesign, seo)
- Great advice. Code for the blind because search engines can’t see.
- [COOL] Faces of Beauty? (neatorama.com, 3 saves)
- (hotornot, beauty)
- Using sqirlzMorph to aggregate beauty scores based on HotOrNot.
- [CODE] 12 Computer science game project ideas (compsci.ca, 2 saves)
- (games, coding, development)
- Good list of projects for computer science last year courses.
- [XBOX360] OMG Ponies! Gears of War mod chips run the game on any console EVAR (destructoid.com, 2 saves)
- (xbox360, gearsofwar, console)
- This really is the best console mod.
- [NOFOLLOW] Follow you, follow me (dougal.gunters.org, 2 saves)
- (google, nofollow, spam, wordpress)
- Why nofollow doesn’t work, and a link to a plugin for fading nofollows.
- [CATZ] Adorablay Animals (adorablay.wordpress.com)
- (cats, photos, photography)
- Adorablay collects some really cute photos.
- [DIGG] Antisocial News? (baron.vc)
- (digg)
- Are “social bookmarking sites” anti-social by nature?
- [QUIZ] Web 2.0 – am I infected ? (nbrightside.com)
- (web2.0, quiz, questions)
- Andy has a good quiz to see how web two-dot-oooooooh you are.
- [MOVIES] Interview: Director Zach Snyder talks 300 (filmschoolrejects.com)
- (movies, 300)
- From the article: ” If you aren’t excited about the upcoming film 300, then you may want to check you pulse, because you may no longer be among the living. If you haven’t heard of 300, then get out from underneath your rock.”
- [MARKETING] Book Notes: But Wait! There’s More! (webomatica.com)
- (marketing, ronpopeil)
- webby reviews a book about Ron Popeil. Looks like it’s worth reading.
- [OTTAWA] Internet Privacy Symposium (web5.uottawa.ca)
- (techlaw, ottawa)
- From the article: ” INTERNET PRIVACY SYMPOSIUM — Research Findings from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Contributions Program. Friday, February 23, 2007. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. — registration at 8:30.”
- [PHOTOS] Royalty-free stock photography (davidairey.com)
- (photos, photography, cc)
- List of some royalty free stock photography.
- [BLOG] Beme Inspires Some New Blog Vocabulary (webomatica.com)
- (neogolisms, blog, blogging, meme, beme)
- From the article: ” Is beme is a good enough meme to infiltrate the blogosphere, as did meme, spam, splog, flog, linkbait, blogosphere, and gaming? Maybe one way to start a beme is to make up a new term for something. Here are some additional neogolisms I just invented”
- [PERL] Progress GUI in perl using Win32::GUI (samdelacruz.blogspot.com)
- (perl, howto)
- How to do a progress GUI in perl on Win32. VERY useful.
- [PERL] Perl Best Practices (samdelacruz.blogspot.com)
- (bestpractices, coding, perl)
- Damian Conway’s best practices for coding in perl. Coding conventions.
- [CATZ] MyCatBlogLog (webomatica.com)
- (cats, mybloglog, blogs, blogging)
- top sekrit
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In the Future This Blog Post will be Obsolete
I spend a lot of time surfing information feeds and I see how ideas form and spread from one person to another. We are in the information age and experiencing information explosion. Push button publishing has lead to ever increasing content. The librarians of the future have their job cut out for them — but that’s okay because the physical storage space for all this data continues to shrink.
The bigger question is how do you keep it accessible? Digital Rights Management (DRM) is one side of the problem — ensuring that anything locked by copyright will be unreadable in 10 years time. The other side of the problem is technological obsolescence. Even if you use open standards they are continually evolving. At the moment I can play MP3s on my computer, iPod, home stereo, car, and gaming console. What about 50 years from now?
Do you own a record player? What about a cassette tape player?
This is great for content producers because they can keep selling you the same thing over and over again. But what about when the data isn’t a consumer good? If there isn’t any money to be made from converting data to the new format du jour then it will be abandoned. Look at this New York Times Best Seller list from the 1940s to 2000s. I haven’t heard of most of the books or authors that were published before I was born. And that was before we hit the Information Age. Good luck finding those books at a bookstore.
Copyright legislation ensures that by the time a published work is freely available for copying it is almost guaranteed there will no longer be an audience who is interested in copying it. More and more content is available in digital format, but by the time it can be legally copied that format can’t be read. Do you have software that can read a WordPerfect [wiki] document [1]?
Old video games see new light because of virtualization and emulators. But these are the exceptions that prove the rule. At least with stone tablets you could still read them thousands years later. CD-ROMs can become unreadable after as little as two years [wiki] under normal usage conditions. Even if they are physically accessible the chances of being able to read the content 50 years from now is next to nil. When was the last time you bought a computer with a 3.5 inch drive?
Content is disposable and the chance that something you create will be read, watched, or listened to years from now are next to nothing unless it continues to remain commercially viable from generation to generation. Even if you created something that could stand the test of time there are too many new voices producing too many new things. The best of the best is a needle in the haystack and the haystack keeps getting bigger.
[1] And I am unfairly picking on WordPerfect. It is still a commercially available product, just one that few people use.
5 Reasons Why I’d Want John Chow As a Brother-in-Law
John Chow is running a “Review My Blog” promotion, but instead of reviewing John Chow: the Blog I thought I’d review John Chow: the Man based on information I’ve gleaned from reading his site.
These are my top 5 reasons why I’d want to be John Chow’s brother-in-law.
1. Common Interests
- Family dinner conversation could revolve around blogging, internet marketing and web too dot ooooh.
2. Gadgets
- As a dotCom mogul and master of TechZone, I’d likely get much better gifts for Christmas with John as part of the family.
3. Politics
- John Chow voted for Stephen Harper. I’m not that into politics, but that would be sure to create huge crazy conflicting debates whenever our families got together, during which I could sneak off to play Xbox 360.
4. Food porn
- Finally, someone else would want to go to the restaurants *I* want to go to.
5. Juice
- In true brother-in-law fashion I could hit him up for money when times are tight…
- … and when times aren’t tight.
Of course, the number one reason why I’d want John Chow as a brother-in-law (to quote the immortal words of Gwen Stefani) is because John Chow is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
Unfortunately for both of us, I’m already happily taken, he’s allergic to cats, and he doesn’t even have a sister. Too bad John, it could have been beautiful.
UPDATE: I’ve been reading some of the other entries and it really seems like John is turning himself into a meme. So far my favorite has been the D&D Monster Manual entry for him.
This would have been a great entry to my 5 Things contest.
5 Reasons Why Blogging Is Better Than Sex (With Me)
Or “Please Don’t Call the SPCA”.
- Reason Number One
- Blogging: I can connect anonymously with thousands of strangers a day.
- Sex: I can connect anonymously with thousands of strangers a day *IF* I move to New York City.
- Reason Number Two
- Blogging: Technorati will show all the people who are linked to me and it doesn’t make me look like a big slut.
- Sex: Six degrees of Paris Hilton.
- Reason Number Three
- Blogging: I can get the cat involved without the horribly judging eyes of friends and strangers.
- Sex: Fur is hard to clean.
- Reason Number Four
- Blogging: Increased visibility means more page views and a larger audience.
- Sex: Increased visibility means someone is going to call the cops.
- Reason Number Five
- Blogging: Googlebot will crawl your pages quite often and share them with the world.
- Sex: Googlebot never calls you back.
This would have been a great entry to my 5 Things contest.
According to Dilbert Creator Scott Adams 95 Percent of Men Would Have Sex With a Robot
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Harold likes to read Passive Depressive, althought he doesn’t always understand the jokes.
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Group Writing Project #1 Complete and the winner is…
The first group writing project has come to a close and the winner is MyLifeWithIT (as chosen randomly by random.org)
But do not fret, because group writing project #2 (“5 Things”) is already underway. One lucky participant will get a $20 Amazon gift certificate and another will get $15 in WordPress.com upgrade credits (2nd prize is only open to wordpress.com bloggers). The first entry is Cory with “5 Reasons You Should Read //engtech“.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
But without further ado, here are all 23 entries! Some of them are quite good, you should check them out. I’ll be posting my favorites out of the bunch next week in a month. Sorry.
UPDATE: You can let me know what your favorites are by saving the posts to your del.icio.us account.
- “Why I Blog” by Ilya Lichtenstein (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I Loathe and Bemoan Valentine’s Day” by ahouseholdkate (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I Started This Blog” by sulz (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Lost in Translation” by mhmazidi (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “A Good Reason to Blog” by Nita (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “My Deal with Valentine’s Day” by Robert (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I Started This Blog” by vernonia (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I Started This Blog” by Kristin (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I Started My Blog” by jordsta (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why The Blog” by monomaniac (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why Blog” by Venture Skills Team (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “5 Reasons Why I Blog” by raincoaster (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I’m Not a Huge Fan of Valentine’s Day” by Agent KGB (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I Started Adorablay’s Animals” by adorablay (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “5 Reasons Why I Blog” by qphayes (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I Started This Blog” by Rexted (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why Does This Blog Even Exist” by Internet Monkey (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “But //engtech Told Me To” by Jason (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Getting Over VD” by alejna (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I Love/Hate Valentine’s Day” by Twinky Thots (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Is See It Everywhere” by My Life with IT (Save this post at del.icio.us)
- “Why I Blog” by Stupid Tom (Save this post at del.icio.us)
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