I'm thinking about starting up a new blog about personal responsibilty. I am endlessly annoyed by the prevelence of victimhood in our society. So rarely do we find public examples of people taking responsibility for themselves, either proactively or even reactively when something goes wrong they could have prevented.

The only thing that holds me back is the time. Do I have time to post something along those natures every day or two? I can barely keep the blogs I keep "updated" updated. It would be a fun blog, and would probably even generate some traffic as it would be news driven. And no doubt I'd take some controversial stances on some things.

I'm annoyed by blogger. The issue is my budding use of the Flock Browser. I really enjoy using this browser in large part because of the blogging functions built right in. Unfortunately I can't blog on blogger with it, I'm not allowed to connect to blogger to make or edit posts. So I checked extenstions in Firefox and found some that supposedly work in blogger, but I've yet to successfully accomplish an off blogger post. Grrr

New font, Lucida Grande, hope it works out well on your computer. I have it available on my mac, but I haven't seen it on the pc I work on... enjoy!

Traveling is something I love to do, and have done a fair amount of. Fitting that a buddy of mine has recently started a travel website with traveler reviews. Well I've been published now a couple times, and I'm loving writing for Tuesdays Traveler. Maybe someday I can even qualify as a real travel writer...

I totally forgot to update My Blogging Adventures on Friday! My apologies. It won't happen again.

The crazy thing is I have things to talk about too!

I've been using Blogger and Wordpress for different blogs with the purpose of comparing the two. After a few months now I still don't really have much to say. Maybe my role in life is not to a technology reviewer.

Here are my observations and a few judgments though:

• Wordpress is much less intimidating to use than blogger
• Blogger is much more customizable (unless you want to pay on Wordpress)
• They both use the term dashboard
• Wordpress provides some basic statistics, which is nice
• Blogger lets you more easily leverage your blog, adding ads, scripts, etc.
• Wordpress' pre-installed themes are better than Blogger, though blogger has more choices.

I don't have a particular preference though, I haven't tried using Wordpress with multiple blogs as I have Blogger, and I haven't really utilized BloggerCSS or templates yet, though I have played around extensively with the themes for Wordpress (though I'm not about the pay for the rights to customize the CSS in Wordpress). customizable

So I guess I'll have more on this subject later.

My return to blogging this week was rough. I was embattled by writer's block, left the few posts I made mostly incomplete, and was unable to even get a handfull of others off the ground, some having nothing beyond titles and a thesis sentence.

I've been reading more blogs lately. I was struck by Pendrops today as Krista described her tussle with writer's block and her desire to be published. I'm not the only struggling blogger out there! Well that's obvious when you consider how many blogs succumb to ascetism by their authors within 90 days. I'm over that hump though, so shouldn't it be easier to continue writing? Maybe I'm spread to thin, and ought to just maintain one blog? Maybe I put to much pressure on myself to generate more words than necessary?

All I know right now is that blogging is not feeling much like an adventure at the moment, more like the third day home sick and I'm tired of everything that's on TV!

I'm back in action after a short hiatus. A death in the family and a trip to Austin to help the in-laws move into new digs kept me out of the blogosphere for two weeks.

But I'm home now; and with an hour to kill on Tuesdays and Thursdays before my evenings start up at Starbucks I'll have plenty of time to continue on my journey through the blogging realm.

I'll have more to post about soon... until then, fare thee well wayfaring reader.