Lets get this straight, blogging wasn’t always a rambling quasi-diary or photo album. In its first guise it was a way of sharing what you had found on the net. Those were the days when compuserve was king (or at least, the only place you could be certain of finding the content you wanted) and out in the wild Internet frontier was all the rest of the stuff. Browsers had only got to Version 3 and hopefully the site you wanted to view was optimised to load on your brand new 9600 baud modem. Newsgroups and offline readers were the order of the day, so it made some sense to share the good stuff that you found, only not really enough for me to bother with. When I re-discovered blogging two years ago, it had changed out of all recognition.

However, it is still good to share the interesting stuff you find out there, and having just found a quirky cartoonist that makes me smile, I’ll share it with you all: The Rut.

To keep you amused on Friday afternoon, something to look at, something to help you make your own mistakes, and something to help you avoid mind control.

Have a good weekend.

by Theo Wa1cott aged 17 and a little bit.

So its Friday afternoon, and you are bored. Why not drop in on Googlefight and try to think up some amusing fights. Here is one, Here is another. Getting the hang of it yet? Go on, give it your best shot in the comments box. you know you want to.

Later: Don’t forget that you can play Googlefight tennis with someone on IM (MSN etc), make up your own rules.

Something to click on a friday afternoon.

Let me show you how to walk the dog.
(Spotted in Marseille)

No mice were hurt during the making of this blog.

The daily blogs have come out in snails…. Paris and London

I regard myself as a European pig, but I despair when I read about this proposal to raise taxes on text messages and eMails.
In essence, some European numbnut is REALLY thinking about levying a tax of 0.8p on a text message and …wait for it….. 0.00001p on eMails. That’ll really cripple spammers then. Purpose of this lunacy? To give those Very Important European Politicians money to play with without having to ask. I know it is never going to fly, but the sheer crass idiocy of wasting time thinking of it in the first place defies the imagination. And you thought tax on eMails was an urban myth. Huh.

So I’m stupid. It took me a good few seconds to read this “Londoner” article title properly. I just couldn’t work out what a cline was.

Barbie Fun

Well, a fine weekend beckons, bringing with it the potential for the first of the season’s eat outside barbecues. I have previously dealt at some length with the moral arguments for and against the consumption of CERTAIN TYPES of meat on these occasions, my eventual conclusion is that we pigs don’t really care. I thought to lead you into the weekend with the tongmaster movie, which if you have not seen before may cheer you up. Quite large, so may take a while to download. I may upload it to a video streaming site, too Now on YouTube. (original still available for download. Enjoy.

The picture was from last year’s garden party. PLEASE don’t draw attention to what is on the spit. I’ve dealt with that already. Thank you. A pig still has certain sensitivities.

Down the bottom left of the pic you will also see a TOP barbie tip. Use an electric heat gun to light your barbie. Instant success, no smells!

Hello everyone. As I am spectacularly famous, I shall refrain from introducing myself and instead allow you to discover the multitudinous facets of my personality as time passes. I am helped in this venture by my able student and assistant, Ham, who has his own blog. We have been working together for so long, often people find it difficult to telll the two of us apart.

What, then, has brought me to this juncture? The truth is that there are limited platforms where a ein gebildetes Schwein, un cerdo educado, an educated pig, if you will, can be fully appreciated. The blog appears to be the ideal opportunity. As they say, on the Internet, nobody knows if you are a pig.

You may expect this diary to range freely across many different topics. Those closest to my trotters will of course be prominent - food may figure from time to time. I hope you enjoy participating.