Have any girls asked you to marry them yet? I'm still waiting. :-)

Someone has to say it, I suppose: I believe you broke the rule (imagine that!) when you moved from WonkoSlice to just plain old Wonko.

I think it's harder, actually, to maintain a type 2 blog than a type 3 blog, since you actually have to make up your own stuff. It's also more satisfying, of course, since there are no inherent rules for what you can write about, as long as it might be remotely interesting to someone.

I'm wondering, though, if the type of blog people choose depends on their personality types. I have a feeling (In theory, I shouldn't say that, since I'm an INTP, but anyway...) that more extroverted personalities might prefer type 1, while introverts like the three you've mentioned will go as far as type 2. Then there's type 3, which may be more about whether you're a judging or perceiving type. If you're a J presonality, you'll want to adhere to the rules of blogging, and convention dictates that a standard blog contains commentary on current events. I know that Eilonwy is a J, but she doesn't count, since she's so atypical in all other respects.

Perhaps what happened when you switched from WonkoSlice to simply Wonko was that you realized you were being blandly mainstream?

Perhaps what happened when you switched from WonkoSlice to simply Wonko was that you realized you were being blandly mainstream?

That's exactly what it was. Everyone and their dog had started a "geek news" weblog by then, and I was getting tired of it.

Nope. Nothing terribly interesting happened on the final day of the trip, so I decided not to bother writing about it.

I was talking about today, the 29th of Feb. Don't you have the tradition where women can ask men to marry them? Its a big thing here, there were women on the radio all evening asking their boyfriends to marry them.

By the way did you have time to put notftp 1.3.2 into the CVS at sourceforge?

Ah. No, we don't have that tradition. I suppose it's not that uncommon here for women to ask men to marry them already.

I added the latest NotFTP code to CVS about five minutes ago. I'm pretty sure the filenames with spaces fix is in there.

I'm not a fan of LiveJournal. Not since they stiffed my Boy Scout troop a while back on a large Christmas wreath order, and that's the only source of troop income.

That being said, the content on LiveJournal isn't all that great. It's just like the web was back in 1993: 40 bajillion people rambling about what nobody cares about. Except instead of people doing it by hand on their own personal webpages, LJ has automated the process.

I think I went Type 2 with my personal journal and Type 3 with my main site.

Excellent, thanks very much, I'm trying it out now. It seems to do everything I need it to.

I nearly got a proposal yesterday...although it was a first date so I should be a little worried!

I try not to put anything on my blog I would be upset if my mother read. That's my standard of publicness.

Same here, and usually vice versa (not writing anything that would upset her), but I don't shrink from occasionally writing something that might startle her a bit. :o)

I can't believe I screwed that one up...

Well, I've been startling my mother since I declared that I "have always been fascinated by the insides of toilets" at age...4, was it? Startling your parents is a right and duty!

Umm. I hadn't seen anyone's LiveJournal in a long time, so I pressed random, to see whether Wonko's stereotypes held true. And this is what I found. I thought these people were myths, stereotypes. I thought, "Surely the degradation of the English language is overstated, and even people who text message a lot probably use REAL English when they have all ten fingers with which to type." *sob*

Maybe people on the RPGnet fora are right when they say the average language level there spoils you for everywhere else on the net.

Holy cow. Nobody home, there. Holy bloody cow. Definitely nobody home. Trying to guess an IQ: 60? Holy cow...

Not all LiveJournals are devoid of grammar and spelling.

Well, I hope that goes without saying. I know some pretty cool people who have LiveJournals. However, that particular LiveJournal was such a masterpiece of incoherence I felt it must be shared and treasured.

I tend to feel that if i would tell it to more then 1 person, i can tell it to everyone. Trying to keep my personal life out of it is a little too restrictive, especially since for me it is a sort of personal journal. On the other hand i still find myself holding back when i know a lot of strong emotions are involved. I guess i have very little in the way of a sense of shame, but still want people to like me.

Ack, thats terrible. Wonko, you need to come up with a new type of blogger so im not in the same category as these people. I mean, i know my spelling is bad but gods, you can still understand what im talking about!

It is possible that this person is actually blogging from their phone. It's not uncommon, and I'm pretty sure that LiveJournal supports it. We could send Wonko across the hallway to ask BradFitz though, just to be sure :)

Of course, that doesn't excuse the "content".

Hmm. Interesting point. Then there is this one, which hurt to look at, so I didn't read much of the content.

However, you are right. While doing random searches I actually came to a couple that were decent.

BAH. Bah I say! I'm absolutely sure there are type 2s out there full of goth poetry about blood drops mixing with candle wax, and musings on how unfair society is to pretty people. There are just a lot MORE type 1s than 2s or 3s, I hazard to say, and therefore the overwhelming mediocrity of humanity dictates that there are a great many awful type 1s. I think the "type of content" is as much about what the blogger is getting out of the blog experience as about what the browser sees.