The topic is one that I feel a bit bereaved to bring up but it simply cannot be ignored any longer. It is my duty, and my calling to share this with the world through typed words. What I wish to unveil will cut you deeply, and sharply. It will feel like a cold metal blade piercing through your skin, hitting bone, and then piercing again, at a slightly different angle. Then you will feel the poison--the poison that the metal blade was soaked in. This poison will feel like a warm stream at first, and then it will get very cold. It's movements may seem slow at first but I assure you the pain will grow in intensity and then in it's rate of movement throughout your internal organs. I suppose on the bright side, you won't die, but perhaps you wish you would have.
The news must be shared.
Every Day's a Sheep-Shearing Festival
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Friday, November 16, 2012
About Dragons
It has come to my attention that the topic of "draconem"-- the more commonly known name, dragon(s)-- is something of a black hole in the internet realm. Though my knowledge be fairly scant, I do wish to make some sort of impression of my own here now.
Dragons are scary.
Although some more optimistic characters wish to believe that all creatures--great or small-- have potential for good, I am here to say "Not so!" Dragons are scary. If anyone is familiar with the epic poem of Beowulf, you are very assured that Dragons are not our friends. In fact, they steal treasure, they live in scary caves, and they kill kings (sorry for spoiling the ending of that poem, though perhaps I spared you a very painfully long read). They breathe fire, and their scales are so hard that even the greatest of swords cannot pierce them (See King Arthur stories and The Hobbit).
Unfortunately, due to Disney and it's rabid attacks on the pathetically gullible minds of children, we have ridiculous depictions of Dragons like that of "Pete's Dragon," "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Dudley the Dragon." My question to them, and to you is, why? Why choose the dragon to portray such significant bonds with children? I propose that they have done this to lure children into befriending horribly evil and deadly creatures. Children suddenly are cuddling up with crocodiles and swimming with sharks, and we wonder why they are dying. Disney wants children dead. Thus, the Dragons.
The End.
Dragons are scary.
Although some more optimistic characters wish to believe that all creatures--great or small-- have potential for good, I am here to say "Not so!" Dragons are scary. If anyone is familiar with the epic poem of Beowulf, you are very assured that Dragons are not our friends. In fact, they steal treasure, they live in scary caves, and they kill kings (sorry for spoiling the ending of that poem, though perhaps I spared you a very painfully long read). They breathe fire, and their scales are so hard that even the greatest of swords cannot pierce them (See King Arthur stories and The Hobbit).
Unfortunately, due to Disney and it's rabid attacks on the pathetically gullible minds of children, we have ridiculous depictions of Dragons like that of "Pete's Dragon," "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Dudley the Dragon." My question to them, and to you is, why? Why choose the dragon to portray such significant bonds with children? I propose that they have done this to lure children into befriending horribly evil and deadly creatures. Children suddenly are cuddling up with crocodiles and swimming with sharks, and we wonder why they are dying. Disney wants children dead. Thus, the Dragons.
The End.
Friday, January 27, 2012
#3 Blogging about RSS feeds
Google Reader is a web-based aggregator that can read Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. Atom and RSS feeds are are used to provide users with frequently updated content.
I used Google Reader to connect to sites I visit frequently. Three ways I discovered to add an RSS feed are:
1) Type in the URL of a favourite site that has an RSS attachment into the Google Reader. Then, once you've found it, you click Add Subscription.
2) Go to your favourite site and find the RSS or Atom icon on the page and subscribe via yahoo, Google or live bookmarks.
3) Add Bundles by choosing a favourite topic and clicking Subscribe to add the bundle of feeds in its own labeled folder.
Using an RSS reader is better than visiting sites individually because it allows you to look over all of your favourite pages with one quick glance, showing you all of the recent updates and activities at once. It gives you the latest updates. In contrast, using an RSS reader is worse than visiting individual sites because the site might be a visual experience and with RSS feeds, you can only get word summaries and some pictures. As well, RSS feeds only show certain parts of the website. For some, this is inconvenient as they want to view all aspects of the website, not just recently updated posts.
I do not find this technology useful for my every day life. Firstly, I don't have a large list of sites I check on a daily basis. Secondly, I use the bookmark tab option at the top of my Firefox browser window. I find this more convenient, and I enjoy visiting each site individually, for the whole experience of browsing, as opposed to digesting all of the information from all of the sites at once.The bookmark tab allows me to click on websites that I have manually added to it, and to have sites easily accessible to me.
Using something like Google Reader over desktop software is better because web-based aggregators do not take up space on your computer. There is no installation necessary. When you are using RSS feeds, you are already on the internet, so a web-based aggregator makes more logical sense and is more conveniently located and quickly accessible.
Happy Blogging and Sheep-shearing!
I used Google Reader to connect to sites I visit frequently. Three ways I discovered to add an RSS feed are:
1) Type in the URL of a favourite site that has an RSS attachment into the Google Reader. Then, once you've found it, you click Add Subscription.
2) Go to your favourite site and find the RSS or Atom icon on the page and subscribe via yahoo, Google or live bookmarks.
3) Add Bundles by choosing a favourite topic and clicking Subscribe to add the bundle of feeds in its own labeled folder.
Using an RSS reader is better than visiting sites individually because it allows you to look over all of your favourite pages with one quick glance, showing you all of the recent updates and activities at once. It gives you the latest updates. In contrast, using an RSS reader is worse than visiting individual sites because the site might be a visual experience and with RSS feeds, you can only get word summaries and some pictures. As well, RSS feeds only show certain parts of the website. For some, this is inconvenient as they want to view all aspects of the website, not just recently updated posts.
I do not find this technology useful for my every day life. Firstly, I don't have a large list of sites I check on a daily basis. Secondly, I use the bookmark tab option at the top of my Firefox browser window. I find this more convenient, and I enjoy visiting each site individually, for the whole experience of browsing, as opposed to digesting all of the information from all of the sites at once.The bookmark tab allows me to click on websites that I have manually added to it, and to have sites easily accessible to me.
Using something like Google Reader over desktop software is better because web-based aggregators do not take up space on your computer. There is no installation necessary. When you are using RSS feeds, you are already on the internet, so a web-based aggregator makes more logical sense and is more conveniently located and quickly accessible.
Happy Blogging and Sheep-shearing!
#2 Blogging about Tweeting
I introduced myself to Twitter a few days ago. Not many of my friends use Twitter, so the activity has been minimal. Receiving tweets from people that I have chosen to follow can be useful as I've chosen public figures who have important and interesting things to say. I do like being updated by public figures, and not having immature status updates flood my newsfeed, like on facebook. I have freedom from this on Twitter, though, because I don't have many followers yet.
Twitter seems to be a fairly easy site to maneuver around, but there are a few unanswered questions, like, what is a hashtag? What is the benefit of twitter over facebook? Why is there a character limit? Why are posts called "Tweets"? And, why are people "following" me?
Twitter allows you to follow people you are interested in, as well as allows you to expand your social networks. Twitter is easy to hook up to other social networking sites, and to your phone. Because of this, it can be accessed from multiple devices and sites. Twitter is a good search tool where you can search for friends, see what everyone is talking about, and what the latest trends are.
Twitter is different from and similar to blogging in that it is a kind of micro-blogging. Twitter is much more socially oriented, and the information part of Twitter is condensed. Tweets are short, whereas blogs tend to be much longer. Twitter is used for personal profiles and celebrities, etc., whereas blogging is more of an information and communication forum for different people, things and topics
Happy Blogging, Tweeting and Sheep-shearing!
Twitter seems to be a fairly easy site to maneuver around, but there are a few unanswered questions, like, what is a hashtag? What is the benefit of twitter over facebook? Why is there a character limit? Why are posts called "Tweets"? And, why are people "following" me?
Twitter allows you to follow people you are interested in, as well as allows you to expand your social networks. Twitter is easy to hook up to other social networking sites, and to your phone. Because of this, it can be accessed from multiple devices and sites. Twitter is a good search tool where you can search for friends, see what everyone is talking about, and what the latest trends are.
Twitter is different from and similar to blogging in that it is a kind of micro-blogging. Twitter is much more socially oriented, and the information part of Twitter is condensed. Tweets are short, whereas blogs tend to be much longer. Twitter is used for personal profiles and celebrities, etc., whereas blogging is more of an information and communication forum for different people, things and topics
Happy Blogging, Tweeting and Sheep-shearing!
#1 Blogging about blogging
I have never blogged before, so I am an infant babe to this world.
Thus far, I have fumbled my way around the site, and have a few comments about blogger.com. Creating my blog from scratch was pretty easy. I followed the prompts and was on my way to a standard blog. I found though that there were very few options to be very creative. It seems like every blog created through the first prompts are quite generic. I had a lot of trouble trying to personalize my blog, and eventually settled on a more stereotypical blog setting.
Blogger.com helped me create a blog fairly easily. For the novice blogger, it flung me into the blogging world quickly.
Thus far, I've had the opportunity to scope out many different blogs. I have found three particularly of interest to me:
1) Amazing facts | Interesting facts | Strange facts
This blog provides interesting and incredible facts about just about anything. The topics are categorized neatly for the user's convenience. This blog is aptly named, as there are hundreds of weird and wonderful facts. The blog is useful as it informs users about the world around them. The posts appear to be well-written with accurate details. I would definitely re-visit this blog in the future, though perhaps not frequently.
2) Youtube Blog
The youtube blog highlights new videos that are causing discussion and interest. This blog talks about the latest events, cultural trends and updates with the youtube channel itself. This blog is helpful, keeping the viewers up-to-date, and even expanding the range of types of videos that viewers would typically watch.
3) Fail Blog
Fail Blog is a humorous site where viewers can send in pictures, videos and images that are considered to be failures. The site is meant to provoke laughter and a critique of the errors and foolishness of others. This site is constantly being added to, and provides a range of types of humour. I really like this site, and view it frequently. This blog is more for entertainment purposes, and less for educational ones.
Blogging does hold a place in today's availability of information, but it is not the primary or one of the primary ways that information is distributed. With the advancements of Google searches and Wikipedia, blogs seem to be created more for entertainment then for education. Blogs are free to view, and available to the public. They are easy to access and follow. On the other hand, blogs can be somewhat unreliable at times, and inaccurate. Newspapers and scientific journals are always safe and reliable for accurate information. They are, though, less accessible to today's society, and not free in many cases. Overall, my blogging experience was relatively painless and somewhat enlightening.
Happy Blogging and Sheep-shearing!
Thus far, I have fumbled my way around the site, and have a few comments about blogger.com. Creating my blog from scratch was pretty easy. I followed the prompts and was on my way to a standard blog. I found though that there were very few options to be very creative. It seems like every blog created through the first prompts are quite generic. I had a lot of trouble trying to personalize my blog, and eventually settled on a more stereotypical blog setting.
Blogger.com helped me create a blog fairly easily. For the novice blogger, it flung me into the blogging world quickly.
Thus far, I've had the opportunity to scope out many different blogs. I have found three particularly of interest to me:
1) Amazing facts | Interesting facts | Strange facts
This blog provides interesting and incredible facts about just about anything. The topics are categorized neatly for the user's convenience. This blog is aptly named, as there are hundreds of weird and wonderful facts. The blog is useful as it informs users about the world around them. The posts appear to be well-written with accurate details. I would definitely re-visit this blog in the future, though perhaps not frequently.
2) Youtube Blog
The youtube blog highlights new videos that are causing discussion and interest. This blog talks about the latest events, cultural trends and updates with the youtube channel itself. This blog is helpful, keeping the viewers up-to-date, and even expanding the range of types of videos that viewers would typically watch.
3) Fail Blog
Fail Blog is a humorous site where viewers can send in pictures, videos and images that are considered to be failures. The site is meant to provoke laughter and a critique of the errors and foolishness of others. This site is constantly being added to, and provides a range of types of humour. I really like this site, and view it frequently. This blog is more for entertainment purposes, and less for educational ones.
Blogging does hold a place in today's availability of information, but it is not the primary or one of the primary ways that information is distributed. With the advancements of Google searches and Wikipedia, blogs seem to be created more for entertainment then for education. Blogs are free to view, and available to the public. They are easy to access and follow. On the other hand, blogs can be somewhat unreliable at times, and inaccurate. Newspapers and scientific journals are always safe and reliable for accurate information. They are, though, less accessible to today's society, and not free in many cases. Overall, my blogging experience was relatively painless and somewhat enlightening.
Happy Blogging and Sheep-shearing!
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