What do I have to say?
June 13th, 2007 at 01:30

Now, I don’t claim to be an expert on this blogging business – I’ve been doing it for a couple of years now and I think I’ve more or less picked it up as I’ve gone along. And I dare-say I’ve had some limited success. As far as I can tell, if you want to be a blogger you only need:

1. Somewhere on the internet that you can call your blog
2. Some ill-conceived opinions

I know that I’ve got the first one – and that’s fairly consistent. I pay the hosting company some money each month and they sort that out. The trouble is, that the second thing on the list – the opinions – are somewhat variable. And it’s really irritating.

There are some days, when I’ll have so much to say that I’ll post two or three times and it’ll all be A-material (well, maybe) – but there are other times, like the last few days for instance, when I’m just devoid of inspiration. You’d think that someone like me (ie: a self important nobody on the internet) would have a few things to say about that Olympic logo everyone’s talking about or whatever. But I don’t really have anything to add to the debate other than “yeah, it’s a bit shit”. I can’t even turn it into a thinly veiled attack on anyone.

I do have sort of a plan to try and combat a lack of inspiration of what to write about – I’ve got a file on my computer called “blog ideas”, containing, er, ideas for things I could write about in the future. The trouble is, they’re all pretty rubbish ideas. Here are some samples which will never make it into fully fledged blog entries:

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Rupert Murdoch is apparently trying to buy the Wall Street Journal – why is he going to all of the hassle of having big business meetings and tonnes of negotiations over it? Can’t he just go to a newsagents and pay the $1 cover price like the rest of us?

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I think ‘txt spk’ says a lot about someone – specifically that they’re a fkn cnt.

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Villains don’t help themselves by hinting the gist of their devious plan at the hero. For example, ‘The Wire’ in the Coronation episode of Doctor Who says to the Doctor “You’ll be glued to the screen“. Which is, er, what happened.

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Pol Pot’s name was “Mr Pot”.

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At university, there are usually a number of people hanging around the student union giving out flyers – sometimes you can’t walk past them without being harassed to take one. Other times, however, I walk past and they ignore me – clearly judging me and deeming me not worthy to deserve a free drink at RnB night at some sort of nightclub.

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The Eurovision bloc-voting dilemma that plagues the internet annually after every Eurovision Song Contest could be resolved by mimicking the make-up of the US Congress. Have it weight so that 50% of the points are weighted relative to the population of the country, and the other 50% are an equal number allocated by each state. There you go, there’s a solution to a problem nobody cares about.

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Dsylexic vampires are weakened by gaelic

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Car radiators cool… where as house radiators warm. Hmm!

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Yeah, I’m not really sure where I’m going with these “micro-ideas”. Maybe this is why I should use Twitter or something?

Comments(1)

1. Belinda Owusu
   April 7th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

   Hi there, Interesting article. I’ve only discovered blogs recenly and I am totally addicted!! It is sites like this that are to blame! I have been so encouraged that I decided to create my own blog. I am in the process of researching for an article i’m writing and was wondering if I may link to this post? I think it may be of great interest to my readers. Kind regards! . Belinda Owusu

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