Rant of Ferox

How do you like the new look? Red? Earthy? stille asy to read and all that jazz?

 I’d been letting this blog sit idle for too long, so I decided to tweak it’s direction to focus more on writing itself, be that blogging, essays for Uni or the reams of fiction I wrote long ago and an constantly re-editing to improve.

I pledge to update here more frequently and bring this blog back to life!

Some days they just dont stop comming. I know I really shouldn’t start up another blog, what with the 4 I have running and an incomplete website, but some ideas just stay in the mind.

Right now I’m strongly considering an blog on evolution and the occasional creatioist controversy it attracts. I’m sure I could write a few posts for it, and probably even keep up with a few weekly segments, but I’m not sure long I could keep it up.

Perhaps I should listen to The Bushman’s Advice and try pre-writing some posts before setting up the blog. Then I’ll know how far i can take this idea.

You only realise you’re addicted to something once it’s gone. No doubt hundreds of bloggers are feeling serious Entrecard withdrawal symptoms since the card-dropping system has been down for about 24 hours.  So what can you do with all this new found free time?

• Write a blog post. So many Entrecrd blogs haven’t updated in weeks, now is your chance!
• Pre-write more blog posts. For those of us with important events coming up, it always helps to have a little something extra saved away to keep a blog active.
• Post on forums. Go on, meet new people, visit their blogs, drop a comment and interact with a whole new bunch of people.
• Join yahoo! answers and be helpful. You might even be able to drop a useful link.
• Check to see if Entrecard is working yet.
• Re-design your blogs to optimize ad clicks.
• Submit to some directories. Remember the whole ‘backlinks are important’ beliefs you used to have before Entrecard?
• Search Google for the keywords you covet. Just how well are you doing?
• Check Entrecard again.
• Play with the kids or fur-kids. Remember them?
• Go for a walk outside. Remember outside? Count 300 steps if it makes you feel better.
• Play monopoly.
• Talk with your significant other (No, Entrecard is not a ’significant other’)
• Find a significant other.
• Sneak a peek at Entrecard once more, just in case it’s back online.
• Fantasize about the bargain prices your favourite blogs are going to have because nobody has bought an ad on them for days.
• Stress about your blog’s ad price because nobody has bought an ad from you for days!
• Wonder if you might be addicted to Entrecard.
• Look at some lolcats.
• Look at Entrecard one more time.
• Cry yourself to sleep.
• Wake up, repeat process all over again.

Hooked, much?

I actually managed to post in all 4 of my blogs this week. Corollax in particular had been neglected, bu now it still look like it might be alive.

 The new blog, which is in wordpress 2.5.1, still gives me some issues with images. Maybe I’m just unfortunate. I’ve been using the no-flash uploader to smooth out most of the bugs, but these issues mean I’m not upgrading any of my other blogs.

Still, got to keep working at it.

You’d think that purchasing a few domain names to develop into bustling websites would keep me motivated to work on them, since I’ve actually paid money for something.

Not actually true. I’ve actually been strangely apathetic about them. It’s probably because now I have to go through the whole process or promoting them, submitting to directories etc, while actually filling them with content, which is harder than I initially anticipated.

I probably should have pre-written more of the content, to make sure I could actually pull this off.