Low blogging

Enough of my friends have commented on my lack of blogging lately, that I’ve been trying to work out what’s going on. So here’s a self-indulgent post about my blogging habit and what’s happened to it.
I originally planned to take up blogging for professional reasons. I was a consultant, and it is always good for [...]

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Downunder Feminist Carnival

This month, I’m hosting the Down Under Feminist Carnival! A wonderful inititive started by those indefatigable Hoydens, tigtog and Lauredhel, at Hoyden about Town. I’m particularly keen to have posts with a workplace focus, so all workplace submisions gratefully received.
But all feminists posts are welcome, and if you don’t have your own blog, don’t be [...]

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The last person in the blogosphere to do this meme

I’ve got a few half formed post ideas buzzing around my head, but the weekend’s gone by without a post, so here’s a meme (thanks for the tag third cat):
You’ve all done it by now, but here’s my answers:
What was I doing 10 years ago?
Hard to believe that 1998 really is 10 years ago. I [...]

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A book meme!

Via pretty much everyone in my feedreader (well so far Pavlov’s Cat, Ampersand Duck and the Hoydens), here is a book meme.
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones [...]

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Rise of nations is responsible

It’s been school holidays recently, and I took a week off, just to hang out with the boys. They did a drama course in the mornings, but the rest of the time we lazed around the house not doing very much. Perfect blogging time, you would think, but actually not. I became utterly addicted to [...]

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Google Reader meme

I’m labelling this a meme – Unrelaxeddad did it first. What are the first ten blogs you clicked on in your google feedreader?
Another experience - Third cat gives us another snippet of life in Adelaide – headlice. Her writing always leaves me wanting to know more.
Launching Holla back Australia! Lauredhel from Hoyden about Town (who finds feminist [...]

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Happy New Year

There’s an easy meme going around, which is the first sentence of your first post of each month, to see what was occupying your mind during the year. On reading mine, I think I need to work on my opening sentences!

There have been a couple of articles (probably because it is the silly season) recently [...]

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Best posts of 2007

Club Troppo has called for nominations for the Best blog posts of 2007 (Australian). I don’t think I belong in that illustrious company, but I thought it would be a good exercise to work out my top five for the year. My blog posts are quite varied. The ones that I work on my writing tend [...]

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Music bleg

This is a plea for musical advice from my blogging readers. But first, a bit of background.
I play the classical piano quite respectably. I learned it all the way through school, and got to the point where I could play some impressive sounding classical pieces.
But now, I have no party pieces. The closest I come [...]

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Nerdery

Via Tigtog, I found this nerd test, which gave surprisingly insightful results for me (except for the dumb/ dork/ awkward section – you score highly on this bit by acting like a typical teenage boy). The sci-fi comic section is more about TV and comics than actual books, though – if it was about sci-fi [...]

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