Procrastination
Posted on November 11, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Life-In-General | Leave a Comment
I should either be asleep or working on an essay due for Monday, but instead I find myself blogging. Here are my thoughts right now:
I should have been asleep long ago.
Tomorrow is going to be a pain in the ass.
Stephen Colbert’s book is awesome.
I’m really steamed at somebody I won’t name, and I’m getting angrier [...]
Visits and Page Views for the Past Week
Posted on October 13, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment
I’m at loss to explain why anybody other than my friends read this blog, but seemingly plenty of other people do. It’s just a same they don’t comment more often…
Update: It seems that almost all the recent traffic has sprung from people googling “Halo 3″ in Google Image Search. (It also turns out that this [...]
Eircom Sucks
Posted on September 11, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging | 3 Comments
I wrote a big post on the subject of Iraq, and now it’s gone, thanks to a permanently faulty Eircom connection. Does anybody know of a better ISP?
Going to China
Posted on June 3, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Travel | 3 Comments
I’m leaving for China tomorrow morning and I won’t be back until near the end of June. I’ll try to put up a few posts here while I’m away, but I’m not sure if I can access the blog over there. Even if I do manage to post something, it’s hardly going to be the [...]
Truce?
Posted on June 3, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging | 3 Comments
Alexis de Tocqueville once said that “All free peoples appear glorious to themselves; but national pride does not manifest itself among all in the same manner.” Although this is a long way short of being directly relevant to me, as an unabashed admirer of America I think there’s something I can take from it as [...]
How to Write Like The Economist
Posted on April 30, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Media | Leave a Comment
This is an excerpt from The Economist Style Guide:
In general, try to make your writing fresh. It will seem stale if it reads like hackneyed journalese. One weakness of journalists, who on daily newspapers may plead that they have little time to search for the apposite word, is a love of the ready-made, seventh-hand phrase. [...]
A Riposte
Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Funny | 1 Comment
The provocation.
For All The Wapanese Out There
Posted on February 3, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Funny | 2 Comments
I was going to put this up under the ‘no comment’ heading I sometimes use, but I didn’t want the image adorning my blog. It’s allegedly from a Japanese gameshow, clearly a more extreme one than Takeshi’s Castle.
I’m going to make an effort to post something of merit in the coming days. This blog has [...]
Stop Gaying Up My Blog
Posted on January 11, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging | 11 Comments
To a large degree, a blog is only as good as its readers. Given the interactivity at the heart of new media, a blog with shit comments very often means a shit blog. With this in mind, I want to make some suggestions here about posting comments on this site. These are of course only [...]
For the Sake of What Happens When you Google “Cian Boland”
Posted on November 9, 2006 - Filed Under Blogging | 5 Comments
This is a most excellent blog.
While browsing through my Site Meter referals, I noticed that googling my name brought up a post that wasn’t a great advertisment for this blog. Hopefully this post will fix that. I’ll merely mention my name, Cian Boland, and then this post should top the list. Just add kind words…
This [...]
Strange Incoming Links
Posted on August 28, 2006 - Filed Under Blogging | 5 Comments
This post probably won’t make much sense to those of you who don’t use WordPress, but I’ve noticed some rather odd additions to the incoming links section of my dashboard. One of them, http://kurodai123.blog36.fc2.com is written entirely in either Japanese or Mandarin, and another, http://herlinaslife.blogspot.com, seems to be a girl in Singapore’s blog. I can’t [...]
New Template; New Problems
Posted on June 1, 2006 - Filed Under Blogging | 3 Comments
As you’ll probably have noticed, my blog has undergone some redecoration. Again, a very big thanks to Gavin for this. However, a consequence of the new layout seems to be that I can only display one video on the main page at a time. The text also seems a bit small, so maybe it will [...]
So Far, So Good
Posted on May 29, 2006 - Filed Under Blogging | 2 Comments
Things are going pretty swimmingly right now. WordPress seems relatively easy to use, ten different people have left a comment on the first post and my site metre is recording an unprecedented surge in visitors. I looked into changing the site template to something a little more exciting earlier, but since such action seems fraught [...]
Inaugural Post
Posted on May 29, 2006 - Filed Under Blogging | 12 Comments
So here’s the new blog, at my own domain name. I was a little apprehensive about leaving Blogger, but the lure of www.cianboland.com proved too great. I must extend a very big “thank you” to Gavin, who helped set this up for me in a matter of minutes. I’d also like to thank you, whoever [...]
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