Wow, thanks to the brilliant and sweet-natured Kevin Lawver for nominating this blog for a “Best Writing” Bloggie!
In January of 2004 I spent time trying to get Blogger blogs to yield RSS. That is, Scott Johnson did the actual geekery while I wrote some toy blogs with Rube-Goldberg templates–often with 4 or 5 posts in the space of an hour.
One of my favorites was blogged in the persona of Terry Pratchett’s giant world-supporting space-turtle A’Tuin:
A’Tuin tries to figure out what to put in his brand new weblog. A few millennia pass as he reasons it out, distracted briefly by drips from the Discworld above as an Ice Age ends. Finally the words come to him. Hesitantly, he pecks them out:
“Helllllo werld.”
So I hope you will all be more inclined to join Kevin Lawver in voting for my blog’s good writing when you compare it to much weirder blogs from my past such as “Giant Martian kittens make good friends” and “boat drinks r us.” (Hey, if anyone wants to vote for my boat drinks’ tagline–“The blog of tall blue libations with tiny umbrellas”–that would make my New Year even more fun and surprising…)
Anyway, thanks, Kevin!