Blog walkabout, 22 July 2007

Is it time for another blog walkabout already? That’ll teach me to spend so much time on Facebook. If we’ve met over the wires already, and you’re on Facebook, contact me and we can hook up over there.

Well, the first country we’re stopping by today is India, to visit the blog of Joyce Babu. Joyce has written a valuable article about protecting your privacy when you surf the net. He writes about whatever interests him, which is just fine by me.

Michelle Jo from Taiwan has a humorous blog where she compiles her Planet of Funny Pictures, Videos and Jokes. I use Firefox rather than Internet Explorer, but I really liked that “page can’t be displayed” screen

Have I really never visited Andy Beard on a walkabout yet? Andy, who lives in Poland, writes about niche marketing and blog search engine performance. His posts are always deep in detail, and extremely well researched. His was the first post I read about the latest set of BlogCatlog updates. Unfortunately, BlogCatalog itself seems to be having a few problems this weekend.

The irrepressible Deborah Petersen (this lady is everywhere!) writes the Canadian blog, Life in the Fast Lane. Deborah tells us about “cat poo coffee”. Now, having smelt the “deposits” of our two domestic cats, I really don’t think I’d like to try this. But - hey - $50 a cup? Do I sense a money-making opportunity coming up? Deborah’s always off the beaten track, and is a recommended read.

Irwan Jamaluddin, from Malaysia, has a technical blog called SysAdmin’s Diary. Irwan mainly writes about Linux, and for a dual-booter like me, there’s heaps of useful information there. I also enjoyed reading about a visit to Ho Chu Minh City, which has some great photographs too.

Lisa Valentine from Leeds, England has a great read in Cotton Knickers for Africa. Lisa has written about her choice of the new seven wonders of the world. It’s nice to see the Glasgow School of Art is among them; I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never visited, but I can see that I should.

disassociated.com is the blog of John Lampard, who’s based in Sydney, Australia. John has posted some photographs of the campus of the University of New South Wales. I realise it’s winter there, but we rarely get warm colours like those here in Scotland; it’s always too busy raining.

Canadian Christine Hingray runs La Vie 101. She plays in a drum corps and apologises for not writing as often as she should, which I guess I ought to do too. Christine is in the process of writing an in-depth autobiography, which is a fascinating read.

To the Philippines now (does everyone there have a blog?) and to Rachiel Cuaresma’s Chelism. She writes about two weeks of traction and casts and muses on her career in nursing. A very worthwhile and admirable profession, Rachiel.

Our final stop today is The Blog of Kendall, which is run by Kendall Schoenrock from the US. Kendall writes about a broad range of subjects. He’s written a great post about why we need to be observant. Definitely food for thought.

That’s all for today, folks. Have a good week!

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11 Responses to “Blog walkabout, 22 July 2007”

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University Update - Firefox - Blog walkabout, 22 July 2007
July 22nd, 2007 11:57

[…] Link to Article firefox Blog walkabout, 22 July 2007 » Posted at The Far Corner | Hey, is […]
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Kendall Schoenrock
July 22nd, 2007 19:43

Thank you for the link love! Keep up the excellent blog!
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Deborah
July 22nd, 2007 21:37

Hey, thanks for the mention and the linky love Baxter! I’m rather squeamish myself when it comes to anything passing my lips, can’t say I’ll be trying this out any time soon What’s amazing is that it’s such a rage, and how much people are willing to pay for it. Thinking of getting into the business ?

Andy Beard is an excellent read. His posts are always extensively detailed with helpful and useful information, and also one of the reasons that I joined his great site at BumpZee in the first place.

I’ll have to check into the rest of your links, sounds very interesting.

And I checked to make sure I had famed you at BTF while I was here
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Andy Beard
July 23rd, 2007 03:05

Don’t forget to delete that link from UniversityUpdate, they get automatically blocked by Spam Karma on my site.

Thanks for the kind words Baxter and Deborah
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Baxter Tocher
July 23rd, 2007 13:50

Andy, I wasn’t sure about UniversityUpdate. It did get caught by Aksimet, but I thought it was just a pingback from a service that collected new blog posts on specific subjects.

Their trackback certainly gives the appropriate link back here (though doubtlessly with nofollow). Is there more to them than meets the eye?
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Ghosty
July 24th, 2007 01:10

Hallo … just wandered in here from Facebook. Very nice blog you have here … shoot me a note from the ‘I read your stupid blog’ group, ay?
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Casey and Peanut
July 25th, 2007 07:44

Hi there, Thanks for visiting our blog

You have very good articles and hope you can do a Blog Walk About on us soon

Btw, you have received a Linky Love Tag form Casey and Peanut.

Here is the link: http://caseyandpeanut.blogspot.com/2007/07/linky-love-tag.html

Kind regards
Casey and Peanut
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Christine
July 25th, 2007 18:16

Hey! Thanks for featuring my blog! What you do is very interesting, I get to read a lot of good blogs from your listings!
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Random news, and some decisions. « La Vie 101
July 25th, 2007 18:53

[…] The Far Corner blog featured me last Sunday. Go check it out It says that my “in-depth autobiography” is a fascinating read. It’s far from done yet, but I am glad that people actually read this thing, and find it interesting. I have always thought of my life as boring and uneventful. I guess a lot of people still prefer everyday realtime drama then made up crap. lol It did remind me that I have to keep writing this thing. I mostly do it for me, to remember specific moments that I might have blocked out and might have something to do with who I am now. I make it public because I am in constant need for attention. Just kidding. I don’t know why I write my life to the world. […]
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Lisa
July 28th, 2007 07:36

Thanks for the mention - good digest of stuff from all over the world. Never mind the Glasgow School of Art if you’re going to go to any of them make it Salts Mill - fabulous place. xx
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Baxter Tocher
July 29th, 2007 13:44

Lisa, thanks for the heads-up on Salts Mill

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