Month: May 2010

Blogging Hereos by Michael A. Banks.

For Xmas ’09 I gave myself this and this book (big Andy McNab fan here).  The year before I got a Jawbone.

The book is exactly what I needed, reigniting my love of blogging and all that.  It’s also serving as a good reminder I’m on the right track, how to go about it all, stuff like that.

Not gonna lie – since after my post-Olympic crash I’ve been finding it tough to get back to where I was, video blogging everyday, always sharing with you, living online.  That’s why there’s no videos since, it’s not for lack of trying.  

I have here 8 un-edited ones where I tried just to talk to the camera and bring you up to speed, but they’re all very meh.  Soon come, I can feel it, it’s coming back.

I know eh, good deal.  They’re from the mall.

You can tell by my tools I sew.  Click here to see a quilt I made, and here for the time I made my own birthday outfit.

It just got back to me that during the Mesh Conference after party this week “someone” was telling people he’s paying me to backlink posts for money…. as in: I insert a blog post back where you’d likely never see it (like in 2008) about something spammy like online loans, and in return I get $10 and their Google ranking is increased.

Let me be very clear here: I would NEVER no NEVER do that.

I haven’t held out putting ads on this site for this long to throw it all away for 10 bucks, I think it’s shady, and it completely undermines my entire blog since really, a blog is only as honest and authentic as its author.

And to the guy that said that: what is wrong with you?  Don’t use my name like that ever again.  I have never worked for you nor will I, I’ve always been nice to you and why you’d say such a thing is beyond me.  

I had to explain to someone yesterday that of course I wouldn’t do that and their response? “Okay good, my respect for you went back up”.  I felt like barfing.  Awesome.

The end.

This came yesterday in the mail, it’s the White Stripes’ film, “Under Great White Northern Lights“.

Thank you, Scott!

I think you sent it to kick start me again on this project, and just reading the cover and insert, it has.  They’re like future-me: they stopped in every province and territory, it’s filled with red & white imagery and highlights places a little off the beaten path.  

Here’s the part that made my forehead crinkle:

All that tiny type are lists of names of those involved in the project.  Compare it to my list: myself.  Yaaaaa, LE SIGH.  Good thing I love a challenge.