Tiffani wins first prize for the Bumper Sticker contest. She was the only entrant but she was the obvious winner right off the bat. Probably why nobody else bothered to challenge her. After all, how can you improve upon perfection?

Five points for Tiffani!

Clancy has revealed his news. He's married and pregnant! Luckily, so is GF. The big winner of the Guess Clancy's News contest was me. Hah! I rule!

I'd like to thank the Academy, my agent and all of the people who didn't guess as well as I did.

My points are a bit reduced though as Helen, Kathleen and Holly each extorted a point from me. What can I say? I'm helpless against the power of estrorage*.

That clears the docket for points posts at the moment but we'll get some more up soon. I've got a Shamming/Sharing in the works and an excellent photo for a caption contest.

* I've proven to be quite the coward in this regard so threats upon my life will continue to be paid off with my personal points until they are depleted.

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I found this over at LeeAnn's Cheesy Castle of Doom ^(TM). Ralex Whitlock (what sort of name is "Ralex" anyway?*) made a list of ten things that he thinks bloggers do wrong. A list of common failings, if you will. LeeAnn did a self-analysis against the list and, since I'm nothing if not a slave to rule number 1, I have too:

1. Only link to what we've already read and only say what we've already heard.

Nah. A goodly bit of my stuff is original and I don't go around parroting people via links.

2. False modesty.
False modesty? Moi? Hehe. Hahaha. Mwah hah hah hah hah!!
Um...no.

3. Clearing the archives.
Nope again. All of my tripe is out there for your enjoyment. Actually it would be a great benefit and increase usability quite a bit if bloggers (like me) cleaned out half of the garbage in their archives. more...

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1 As for the site, the reason I put it there is because people were confused as to why the heck the site was called RAWbservations, so it makes my initials more clear. Though really I've been putting the "R." in front of my name pretty much by habit at this point. Any time I sign a check or credit card receipt I put it on there to explain the discrepency between the name I'm signing and the name I'm using. I used to sign one or the other depending on which name they needed, but that got tedious. Ultimate point being that unless I legally change my name, it's more difficult to get rid of the first name than the middle one.

Posted by: Ralex at February 17, 2005 01:05 PM (TS8P4)

2 I'm guilty of number 7 and number 10. I read certain blogs that appeal to me but there are a number of "top rated" blogs that I've only been to once and learnt it wasn't for me. I don't often comment in my own comments simply because I am either away from my pc, or I am not so posh that I think anyone cares about my comments. I get annoyed when you see bloggers comment in their site when they've obviously been away for a while and feel they must address each and every commenter like: Adrian-Thanks, buddy!!!!!!!!!!! Tonsilhockey-((((HUGS)))) Janine- You go girl! Whippetlover-ROTFL! PeteyTeenyTiny-I so agree!!!!!!!!! Yeah. That kind of thing. I hate that crap. If you have nothing to comment to the comment, then just don't.

Posted by: Helen at February 18, 2005 02:14 AM (9jsh4)

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I got a very nice email from Tre at 21st Century Paladin. He complimented me on my site, told me he had blogrolled me and asked me to look at his site to see if I liked it and maybe put him on my own blogroll if I did. Happy to oblige Tre.

But this got me to thinking about my blogroll. How do sites get on my blogroll? Well, I'll tell you.

But first, allow me to present my excuses. I am a terrible template updater. It's not in my genes. I'm in software QA because I like to break programs. I am an inherent danger any time I open a template. I am a destroyer of bytes, not a creator. What I'm saying is I don't update my blogroll very often.

Excuse number two is that although the blogs I read are the ones on my blogroll I don't read blogs with my blogroll. I use a newsreader. If a site doesn't have a feed the chances that it will ever get to my blogroll are pretty slim to non-existent. Oh, I know that there are loads of excellent sites out there without RSS feeds. My heart bleeds a little bit every time I think of all of the great stuff I'm missing. However, real life has shown that I seldom, if ever, remembered to (or bothered to if I did remember) actually go read blogs outside of the ones in my newsreader.

So what happens to a prospective blog is I'll put it in the newsreader and follow it for a while. If it bores me or pisses me off I delete it. If it's still there when I update my blogroll it becomes one of the elite and gets put in the correct alphabetic order.

Tre, you're up there in the pending section right now. So far, so good.

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