I was reading an article about successful blogs and blogging which I felt resonated with me.
D. Keith (I always read that as Dr Keith for some reason) points out that a good blog has regular posts, interesting information and sometimes humourous content. This is pretty much exactly the same criteria (critrion?) that links in my ‘Worthy blogs’ section must pass.
Unfortunately the realisation has stuck that my very own blog, this here now, would not pass my own criteria for being a worthy blog :O. I would like to think that this is because I am just getting started and feeling my way around my for my own writing style and trying to improve that style.
Can you improve something you haven’t found?
anyway, as they say in AA meetings* the first step is to admit that you have a problem…
Here it is then, I have a problem knowing what to blog about and being sure to make it interesting and/or amusing.
I will be working at this problem along with several others (mostly programming based) over the next few weeks and months.
Bear with me during this period, and as the once popular songs states
Things can only get better… 😉
*I’ve never actually been to an AA meeting
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Rob :(…i need a hug *bottom lip trembles*
ooohhh just looked at that okcupid thingy u like…and its getting better…we are now 75% friends! woo! i think…
hehe, that really bugged you didn’t it 😛
Myself and Rob are 83% friends, but it used to be 85% a week or two ago!
Heck man, have i done something to get on your wick lately?!
OKCupid… successful blog? Oh right, I see the relation… :p But just ’cause I’m bored really; 75% Robs friend, 81% Petes friend ??% Rows friend 😛
ah yes….i am getting slightly worried on that front…seeing as Rob is one of my closest friends and we only get 75%!!! i dread to think what some other people get…’Jeff and Rowena are 3% matched’ etc…..never good. Rob did laugh at me recently and said i could not find his or yours (looks at Andy) profile on okcupid….i took the challenge and found Rob straight away (he really should try to remember that he uses the same email address on most things hehe) but seeing as i only know everyone else by their first names…..i failed the task!!
By following Rows email address on OKCupid… ?? = 50 *shrug* guess we’re not destined to be friends :p
my email address? ok i must be the most compuer illiterate person on here but i cant see anybody’s email addresses :)…ho hum….50% 🙂 not bad i guess….seeing as i dont really know you…i have known Rob for a while and we only get 75%, so i guess things can only get better hehe
Well, by imitating Andy’s stalker-like behaviour, I had a look for Lady Row on OK-Cupid and understood why the low percentages immediately.
Row (that’s me addressing an individual, not commanding every reader to make the boat go faster), the reason why "match percentages" are low with you is coz you haven’t answered any questions (ie, the one’s under the "improve matches" section).
The more questions you answer, the more the site can identify about you and score you against other people. Seeing as you’ve answered no questions, you’re gonna be 50% with most people because it’s a neutral score that’s uninfluenced by any other information.
If you start answering as many questions as Rob (several hundred, you may think it’s sad, but it’s kinda fun… besides, i’ve answered more questions than him), then you’ll probably find yourself becoming better friends (statistically speaking). So Andy, you may still have a chance of friendship here?!
Hope this sheds some light and understanding on things.
P.S. – If you end up lowering your percentage scores (unlikely), please don’t hurt me, i’m just the messenger!
sigh…right guys…i think i have figured out (with the help of Pete 🙂 thankyou) whats going on….you are doing exaclty the same as Rob..i have two okcupid accounts…one i use and another i made just as a tester….you are all going to look at the tester….i am redninja1985 on okcupid….and have answered about 200 questions lol…..so, have a look on that one and we may get somewhere! hehe….
Ah ha… I see, my stalker skills have let me down 😦 *goes to check new info* 71% friends then 🙂
see!!! i knew i couldn’t be THAT incompatiable with so many people lol….71% eh!!! gosh!…thats pretty good…well, its better than the dreaded 50% of old…
Ah, i see. Checked new profile and now makes more sense.
Somehow Row, despite the fact we’ve exchanged all of about 5 sentences to eachother in our lifetime, we’re 84% friends.
Now, i’m just wondering (suddenly), where did Andy get my OK-Cupid profile from (and what his profile is)? Coz the email address i post up here ain’t the one i use with OK-Cupid?
Just how good a stalker are you?
ive sentences and already 84%??!!??! wow! …must be my amazing social skills hehe
five*
Make that six now.
Wait, no, that’s seven now.
No, eight.
No… this could go on for a while.
Heh, this has turned into a bit of a forum :p
Pete, I’m obviously not as good a stalker as I first thought, but I found you by looking for people from Plymouth 😉 and I found Rob by looking for people from Guildford :p … there’s a pattern there somewhere (if you can get a pattern from just two instances)
ah yes but what about me? you dont know where i am from…and also, how can u see my email address? i never did work that out….and Pete beat you Andy….we are 84% destined to be friends!!! ….we’re gonna have to improve on that!….
Ah, i’d look for you, but i don’t know where you are!
It’d make my life a lot easier if you just told me your user!
(I just wanna be the 20th comment on this subject posting!)
i did tell you…redninja1985….and you checked didn’t you? i confused!!! and damn it! i wanted to be the 20th message…
Row, in the comments you made to the left you put your email adress in, hover your mouse over your name on the comment and you can see the email address in the status bar 😉 And I believe Pete was talking to me about my user ID, so… LazyMouse, that’s me 🙂
ok wow…..never knew that lol! as you can see…i am not exactly the most computer minded person ever…
Just butting in here so that I can include a link to this amazing website… http://www.soundsfamiliar.info . quite random of me, but hey.. its a useful website no ?