Entries from April 2008 ↓

Now that the blogging scene in Birmingham is pretty much booming and everyone knows online and IRL* do you think we all feel obliged to subscribe to each others’ RSS feeds, follow them on Twitter and poke/add them on Facebook?

With the next Bloggers meet around the corner many of the people attending will be meeting for the second time - the first time being the first bloggers meet - (duh) so, in theory it’d be the polite thing to do to subscribe to their web presence(s) from the first meeting.

But what if you didn’t?

Imagine the conversation the next time you meet and they bring up a reference to a blog post they made and you had no idea what they were talking about. Imagine if after admitting your complete failure at being a friend they revealed that they’d read your every post since you met. Oh, the shame and embarrassment!

Even worse, what if you did subscribe to everthing of theirs, then deiced that their thrice-daily dishing out of crap-envying content was, well, crap and thus unsubscribed. Imaging the awkardness of meeting again and having to blurt out an excuse for not reading their blog.

Or, would you just grin and bear it and read their content, ’cause it was the polite thing to do?

I guess the questions I’m trying to ask are:
Is it bad manners not to virtually subscribe to person after meeting them? And, Should you feel obliged to stay subscribed to that person for the duration of your friendship?

*that’s In Real Life to you n00bs**

**that’s newbies for you amateurs

Botanical Gardens, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

The natural things in life are what matters sometimes. Twitter just doesn’t compare to the beauty of flowers.

Hayfever sucks though.

Despite not being old enough to have heard it the first time ’round it would seem I really am in love with everything from the early 90’s

This isn’t to say that everything being produced now is a big pile of rubbish. Times change and sounds change. This is just one sound I’d like to hear more of.

Rich, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

Surprise!

Give a man twitter, and he’ll tweeting once a day. Teach him how to start a meme and he’ll be twittering for life:

Ever since the smoking ban last year I’ve often thought about how you define an enclosed area. I remember that a nearby pub built an outdoor smoking area, but made the mistake of putting a small roof over it, which made it an enclosed area and therefore they had to remove it, much to the smokers’ chagrin.

The reason that I ask this is not because I’m a smoker or just someone looking to exploit loopholes, but because on two occasions I’ve been in bars (which shall remain nameless) where the designated outside smoking area has been covered somehow and no action has been taken to enforce the law. This brings me swiftly onto my next question: as a patron what right do I have to ask/demand that the management enforces the law and stop people from smoking?

On both occasions I would’ve just asked the management to open the overhead shutters, but then I would’ve got complaints that it was cold/raining. But isn’t that the point? By that I don’t mean that smokers should be rained on, but that it should be outside.

These don’t seem like questions that are gonna answer themselves, so in the meantime I’m gonna air out my clothes. It’s the first time they’ve smelled like smoke in ages!

Western Digital External Hard Drive, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

Finally got an external hard drive. Hopefully there’ll be no more cases where I’m close to tears from nearly losing all of my work.

What the camera is watching, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

Stef and Pete talking at the 3rd Birmingham Bloggers Meet.

You make a decision. You make a decision as a response to others’ decisions. All of that has brought you to where you are right now.