One Blog Bloggers

My most favourite bloggers, on who’s blogs I spend way too much time, run only one blog each.

Becky has an excellent blog, which I really want to believe has loads of sexual undertones, but is actually more of a quasi political blog, and every time I go there for a perv she suckers me in to something thought provoking. And then she has another site, which I swear is a wish-list – and I’m loving the hand held personal massager (every girl should have one on their wish list).

Also, JJ – he doesn’t have two blogs, but he does have a Field Guide to JJ’s Path in which he gives us guys with bald heads a bad rap as he exposes exactly what softie(s) we he can be. So much for shaving your head in an effort to look fierce.

Lastly, PinoySkull, proves that Linux users can a) be human, and b) make fun of their operating system, in just one Blog. And if like me, your only knowledge of Linux, whilst growing up with Windoze, was those BOFH stories, then you would also be surprised.

So what do the three above have in common apart from the fact that they all only run one Blog each (as far as I can tell) , are fabulously good looking (ok, the last two not so much as the first one) and they all, of course, regularly visit my site (bless their souls)?

Well, they all have PageRank!

And as my blogging role models, I hope some of that rubs off. Meanwhile, I’ve been considering running multiple blogs as I think I squeeze to many diverse topics into this one. That’s the other thing they have in common, their topics are fairly focussed. I wish I wasn’t so green.

At least today I reached a milestone, my Feedburner Feed showed that I got 9 subscribers today. That’s another system I don’t understand as the subscriber count fluctuates. Surely if you’re subscribed you’re subscribed? Anyway, it’s 2 up from the 7 it was for the last 2 weeks, so I feel encouraged.

But, whilst I ponder the mechanics of things that I don’t understand, here’s what I got swinging around my cellphone recently. Oh, had a bit of a scare last night. I was out Quizzing at the Office Pub and with my phone in hand, right alongside the beer mug, I emptied the beer bottle too quickly, splashed some beer on it and it immediately went ape.

I panicked. What would I do without my 1mpx camera – nevermind the fact that I’d be without a phone. Luckily, after I gutted it, laid it out to dry in pieces and reassembled it, it worked again. Phew.

Good Pork Rice

On Sunday we went to this pork place. “Good pork”, Julia had assured, it was just a quick lunch. I’m not a pork fan, but she was convincing. After crawling along in traffic for a good 20 minutes, we passed the place and saw the queue. Queues always convince me more.

The one guy was chopping the pork with a meat cleaver that effortlessly sliced through rib racks and the lady manufacturing the little parcels of rice-o-pork, production line style. McD’s could learn a thing or two.

Today’s Traffic Violation Winner

I went to see Shoot ‘em Up with Clive Owen, which is possibly his, and everyone else in it’s, worst movie ever (so what if it was supposedly a parody – then it’s also the worst parody ever).

But what I did enjoy in the movie was the scene where after he jacked the BMW (nod to that series of BMW shorts?) and found this terrible driver on the road who swerves and never indicates. He then moans about about how indicating is no trouble and gets worked u about the guy until he finally rams him in to parked cars. I identified with that in a big way and could only drool as I imagined myself in a Hummer bashing terrible drivers here in KK.

The guy pictured (I say guy, but there really is no gender competition to see who drives the worst – everyone’s equally shit) would be first to get side-swiped by that Hummer cruising down the little street, narrowed by double parkers. And I need funding to commission a study on this, but preliminary findings indicate a direct correlation between annual income, care size and driving ability. There seems to be a complex equation that proves the more you earn and the bigger the car is you buy, the lesser ability you will have to operate it.

BBQ Cook-out Inside your Car Loser

And staying in traffic – you just never know when you will stumble upon a scene in Kota Kinabalu that will make you gasp for air and slow down, even though you hate rubber-neckers. On my usual route home I passed this little gem, parked on the side of narrow’ish two lane road, causing traffic, not because it was blocking traffic as much (although it was), but because people were slowing down to rubber-neck – and I honestly couldn’t help but to join them.

The micro-van was burnt to a crisp, gutted, totally ashen. I’m sure if I walked up and poked it, the remaining structure would just flake to the ground. God only knows what happened here. Even as I type it now, 3 days later, that thing is still there – clearly the owner thought “screw it, I ain’t moving it” and the authorities thought exactly the same thing.

I wonder if the rims are worth something….