Entries from December 2007 ↓

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I was diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic at the start of December. A bummer, because it meant I would not be able to enjoy Christmas pudding or the mince pies! But having it officially diagnosed, I am determined that being a diabetic is going to be a positive thing in my life. Well, I have already lost weight by eliminating sugar and eating a more healthy diet.

For years I ignored symptoms and signs that something was wrong. Please don’t be as daft as I was. If you have the slightest feeling that something is wrong, go see your doctor. Meanwhile, to help you recognise the symptons earlier than I did, read this article by Elsie Chan.

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Part Two of iScatterlings’ Exclusive & Final Blogroll Slagging Off

And finally, here is Part 2. Thanks for waiting so long.

I need to thank each and one of you bloggers who calls by here on a regular basis, for supporting iScatterlings through 2007. Without you reading the blog and commenting, I would be a fulltime couch paotato. And that is bad. At least with blogging I do not need a Nintendo DS with Brain Training…. yet.

Maestro, the drumroll please, it’s playback time……………..did I issue a content warning? Oh goody I forgot!

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It’s about Facebook. I am at home thinking:

Hopefully the conversation around FB vs Blogging is not dead. Is it?

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I thought it pertinent to reprise this post from April 2006. It is still as pertinent today as it was then.

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Part One of iScatterlings’ Exclusive & Final Blogroll Slagging Off

At long last, the first part of your exclusive and final commentary roundup about your blogs is here. I will publish Part 2 shortly.

My, my, my how quickly time flies. But we don’t want to talk about that now do we? No! Not when we want to get right on with the bitching and slagging off! So gascon if you please, kindly pass out the Kleenex and distribute the poison quills then fill their plastic champers flutes with crocodile tears and let’s get on with crushing loadsa self esteem!

Maestro, the drumroll please, it’s payback time……………..did I issue a content warning? Too bad, too late.

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OK. While my hosting service or BT’s exchange is down, I’ll just Rant on Tuesday Too!

I want to reprise my article about the type of service I experienced in New York at the hands of the waiting staff at diners, restaurants, on tour buses, banks, delis etc etc - everywhere. Brilliant. They know exactly how to make you very happily take your money out of your wallet and then gladly put it into their till. And they are experts at getting you to come back and do it again and again and again.

And I am more than happy to do so. But why not in UK?

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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL BLOGGERS EVERYWHERE!
from iScatterlings

iScatterlings Song

Blog 1.0 + Blog 1.0 isn’t Web 2.0

Blogging is a lonely, difficult, and stressful and most often an unrewarding exercise in futility. But we love it.

As the end of 2007 approaches many of you will be reviewing the impact of Web 2.0 on your experiences through the year. No? Gosh you are a blogging heathen! You mean you won’t be asking yourself some profound philosophical questions about you and blogging and the state of our universe? Get outta here. What is wrong with you?

Actually, there is not a single thing wrong with you. You and I and millions of others don’t do the wondering what Web 2.0 has done to our universe.

Instead…….

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Rant on Tuesday

In terms of evolution, I’d have thought that as a species we’d have learnt a good few things about living and creating things for members of our species and also for anything else that falls outside of our known definition of homo sapien. So why am I constantly struck by a feeling that certain social media applications are still being constructed to feed the developer/designer’s ego rather than user benefit? Are these applications too hastily and badly put together in order to be first to go live?

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Don’t know what Christmas gift to buy for Aunt Flo, Cousin Fiona and Uncle Melbourne?

Don’t fear my dears, help is at hand. Here is some great advice from Augustini Carthoson on the perfect gift to buy for those that have everything.

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Just when you thought this year had had enough excitement, here I come with a question? It’s a good question. Not a rubbish everday non-descript, beige question. No. It’s a sweet, kind, genteel, concerned, mindful sort of question and completely lacks guile.

Go on then. Read it.

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The office Christmas party season is looming again and you cannot recall how it got to be so near the event so quickly. Yikes, time flies when you’re crawling your way up the corporate ladder!

And of course you need to organise and give a speech. And the Board Chairman and the CEO will be attending. And you want to impress them and staff. And you do not have much time to prepare and you do not want to make a blethering fool of yourself. And you have a secret - you are petrified of making speeches and what if you dry up or stutter, or sweat profusely….?

Don’t fear dearies, help is at hand. Here is a 10 point Office Party Speech survival plan from Andrew Ivey.

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Look who’s trying to get hold of Namibia. Look who is taking advantage of a poor nation. Look who thinks they can just waltz in, survey police and other civic amenities and deem they have the way to improve the country and its people. Look who is a serious threat to the fabric that built and sustains Namibia.

Scientologists are a big threat to poorer nations and especially to a populus who will be more vulnerable to the scheming, cunning, seconhand car sales pitch they spew.

Watch out Namibia - the loony scientologists are coming for you.

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For all those of you who use Wordpress and their Plugins, this is for you. And Aguila, not our SAFFER Aquila is to blame!

Aguila found out that sometimes when we users ask for support we don’t necessarily get the response we want.

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