7 posts tagged “blogging”

This entry will be very, very meta.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry discussing a forum where (and I said) "a majority of developers, publishers, and journalists go to discuss the latest in video games."

I wrote the entry, simply because I had nothing to blog about recently, and I thought my friends would be impressed with my "l33t" skills in finding this "secret" message board. However, the LAST thing I ever expected happened. The people on these forums, found my message board.

Gary Whitta, the columnist who led me to the forums, was the one who posted my blog entry to the thread. It expanded to a five-page thread, where they made fun of me (I'm not offended, some of it was pretty funny), and ripped apart my impressions of the board.

After talking with one of my friends, I decided, that I needed to get on my board and reply to their comments and reveal myself to them. The message board has a system where you have to e-mail the admin and he has to approve your membership in order to post. I registered, and I'm currently waiting (However, I don't think he has plans to approve me).

Oh, the humanity.

A funny little website. Xbox Live, the online service that allows you to game online with your Xbox 360, keeps and displays a pretty wide arrange of information about the player and their gaming habits.

A website, 360voice.com, has taken all that info, and done something pretty funny. It puts out a "blog" for your Xbox 360. The 360 updates its blog every day, and keeps the readers informed about the games your playing, and your gamer points.

For example, one day when I didn't log on, my Xbox 360 posted to its blog, "I was a sad Xbox 360 yesterday... UberKevin never showed up to game. That makes 6 days!"

Its a pretty funny site. Points for originality. Here is mine if you want to check it out. UberKevin's Xbox 360 can blog

I've changed the title of my Vox blog from "A Midatumn Tech Blog Classic," a play on the Baseball All-Star Game, to "1,827 Miles From The Golden Gates." The Golden Gates are of course, the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, and of course, the center of the technology world, and almost everything I write about. I find it fitting. I think I'll change my title once a quarter.

Just a note, in Wisconsin today, it was 6 degrees, with wind chill, it was -12, while, in San Francisco, it was a sunny 64 degrees. Hmmm, seems like Jamaica to me.

I've got this fear, some would say, naive fear, that if I change the title of my blog, people will be confused about what it is, so since I've been signed up on Vox, its been, thekevin's blog, with the tagline, "The Midautumn Tech Blog Classic", a pun on Baseball's All-Star game, called often the Midsummer Baseball Classic.

Well, after looking around at some of my favorite blogs here on Vox, I've decided to change it to the The Midautumn Tech Blog Classic, and change the tagline to thekevin's thoughts on today's tech industry.

Therefore, I get to use my baseball-esque name, and people know what it is. Good enough.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to create thoughtful, interesting posts that people would enjoy reading, and yet, I'm getting no response what so ever from my fellow voxers. Maybe people see my chubby face and look away because I don't have a hawt face. No matter, I'm determined to get people to read my blog and enjoy it and leave comments.

I'm going to start activly reading other blogs on Vox and commenting on them. Hopefully, other people will come and read mine, and my face won't scare them away.

:)

I'm under the weather today kids, so my blog entry will be a bit subdued to say the least.

Today, the Apple iPod turned five, which may seem a few years longer than you remember, which is about right for me to. The iPod was introduced in 2001, to some critism, it only worked on Macs, only had a Firewire connection and had only had 10 hours of playback. Despite these, it was a technical marvel, a very very small hard drive.

Slowly over time, small improvements brought iPod to the front of the MP3 player field, a very simple control interface, and the great iTunes application, and the move to allow use on Windows. No MP3 device had really taken over the market.

I own an iPod and love it.

Meh, this entry is so bad. I shouldn't even post it. The fact of the matter is, I'm kind of blogged out. I've been blogging some in-dept posts for what, three days straight, and I feel am burned out on blogging. Personally, I don't know how I can keep this up. I'm not really 16 anymore... (Yeah, like 17 is too old to blog :) )

Well, I'm sure I'll find a way to keep this up. Later.

w00t! I've been excited about getting this Vox account for a long time. These Vox blogs are hella slick and neat has hell. So, my other blog has turned into a "omg my life", or a typical teenager blog. Maybe this Vox blog can be something more advanced, my thoughs and comments on today's tech industry. Maybe... maybe not.

Well, who knows what will happen to my Blogger account. I really liked Blogger... but Vox blows it out of the water. Maybe I'll keep Blogger to mess about with, but Vox is now my primary blog.

Stay tuned to my first 'real' entry.