Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts

Sunday, October 28, 2007

NaBloPoMo

Hope you are all enjoying this fine Sunday! Was feeling a little under the weather last night so I didn't make it to Daisy's, but the Ours arrived in at four am a little bit worse for wear. He will be in the horrors all day no doubt.

On another topic entirely - since I started work I've only been posting on average every second day, which has bothered me. I started this blog with the aim to post every day (hence the extremely high quality of the writing!) so the slip in posts is nagging away at me.

When I was reading my latest regular read, Alix's blog, I noticed a button on her sidebar that read:


Visit NaBloPoMo

and I was immediately intrigued. I followed the link and it dawned on me that this might be the push to regular posting that I needed. The site is also a social networking site of sorts - it allows you to browse other blogger's profiles, join groups and post photos and videos.

I'm the 2189th member of NaBloPoMo and I won't be the last, so if you are keen for inspiration to post more often look no further and join!

Sunday, April 22, 2007

When books leave you cold

Unfortunately my reading mojo is still nowhere to be found - Spencer brought it back temporarily but interest in him has faded too. Luckily I've found that copious amounts of tv watching and website trawling have plugged the gap nicely.

One programme that I can't get enough of is Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which is a shame because it's been put on indefinite hiatus by NBC due to disappointing ratings. I find it hard to understand why it hasn't been a hit. Studio 60 is about two friends (Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry) who have been drafted in to save a late-night comedy show, not unlike Saturday Night Live. The cast, plots and writing are excellent, and I just can't get enough of Aaron Sorkin's intelligent and funny characters and the 'Walk and Talk' technique that he perfected on The West Wing. It's been on TV3 in Ireland since February and it's starting on Channel 4 from June or July of this year, and it comes highly recommended by yours truly.

I read and enjoy a lot of blogs too, and a really interesting one that is updated every Sunday is PostSecret. People from all over the world send in their secrets anonymously on homemade postcards. Quite a simple idea but the results are compelling and inspired. It's not a misery trip either - some entries are hilarious. I'm never disappointed.