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I’ve been using WriteToMyBlog to edit some of these previous posts. So far, (it’s still in beta) they’re only allowing me to go as far as One Whiff of Davidoff, but as soon as this post is published I’ll lose that to play about with.
So far it’s been pretty use to use and things have gone so swimmingly that I’ve now taken the, perhaps, rash decision to use it to write all my future blog posts from. In my mini trial I’ve corrected spelling mistakes *ahem* that were left carelessly lying around, made the author of each post a little clearer to understand and added tags. I’m the kind of person who assumes things like adding tags would be far too difficult for me to get my poor wee head around, and as WordPress.com doesn’t have a nice ickle button I can just tap, I’ve avoided having anything to do with them. WordPress.com is very easy to use, but it does have it’s limitations - after hours lost trying to sort out the sidebar and faffing with various little extras I mostly refraining from attempting anything technical on this blog nowadays. So having a raft of buttons in the Advanced tab in WTMB, to do things with that I’d never have dreamt of including in a blog post is a tad exciting. OK, so I’m a sad git, who’s discovered (on looking at the source code of t’blog once these changes have been made) that actually it’s all fucking simple and easy. Buttons are making me learn HTML. Who’ve thought it?
Potential Sub-Heading: How To Stalk
Whilst doing this, I’ve been listening to music I’d have never had come across if I hadn’t done something, well, stalkerish. The ability to amuse and scare one’s self with what can be learnt about all sorts of people over t’interent, is predictably high. Naturally, there are plenty of things about myself I’d rather not the world know, but I can’t do much about my lack of discretion in the past.
Occasionally, this digging leads to much laughter on seeing pictures on long-forgotten websites that particular individuals would quite probably like no one to see, which is something I can very much relate to - which is probably why I’m less than totally thrilled with someone’s Flickr page.
All you need is a little bit of info, Google (or similar), WayBack machine or WhoIs and a nosey-parker attitude an inquisitive mind and you soon find yourself stumbling upon juicy little nuggets that will probably make you giggle, or sick. One hopes for the former. For instance, you could find yourself searching through to a complete and utter stranger’s Amazon wish list, before swiftly hunting down those artists they have listed on MySpace, and really liking what you find. Which means you’ve then *got* to buy/get the album too. And their back-catalogue. And future releases.
To this end, I’d thoroughly recommend Let Me Introduce My Friends by I’m From Barcelona; Wincing the Night Away by The Shins; Patrick Wolf’s Wind In The Wires, Lycanthropy and latest The Magic Position; and the Hidden Cameras - Awoo to anyone.
So, I’d like to say to person who’s Wish List supplied me with a new musical landscape: thankyouverymuch for inadvertently sharing your,
clearly, excellent taste in music with me, and whoever else finds themselves in the same spot. And that I’m very sorry for snooping about, and potentially scaring the crap out of anyone, but that’s unlikely, cos who reads this?!?
P.S. I’m really not a stalker; I really can’t be arsed to put that much commitment into it.
-Bea Whale
Tags: WriteToMyBlog, I’mFromBarcelona, PatrickWolf, TheShins, HiddenCameras
