"Lance Birch" <-> wrote:
> I may as well chime in too; my blog hasn't moved (still at 
> http://thezone.firewave.com.au ), but now finally has RSS for those that 
> don't want to keep checking if it's been updated (ha, as if there is 
> anyone doing that!).

You had that blog before the word blog was even used. :) 7 years and running 
is pretty impressive by blog standards i think...

Rune

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Rune wrote:
> "Lance Birch" <-> wrote:
>> I may as well chime in too; my blog hasn't moved (still at 
>> http://thezone.firewave.com.au ), but now finally has RSS for those that 
>> don't want to keep checking if it's been updated (ha, as if there is 
>> anyone doing that!).
> 
> You had that blog before the word blog was even used. :) 7 years and running 
> is pretty impressive by blog standards i think...

Heh, I guess that's true.  I remember when the word "blog" appeared and I 
thought it was silly (and to be honest, I still do).  I prefer "journal", 
but have always called mine "garbage" of course - because that was the 
most accurate description of it when I started ;)  The first post was 
actually on 3rd October 1999 (but I haven't bothered to load the old 
entries into the database - prior to that it was all static HTML), so it's 
now exactly 8 years and 1 day old :)

And that brings up an interesting question - should I load the old entries 
in?  I've been pondering that recently.  They have very little value to 
anyone, I think, and really everything prior to 2005 could probably go 
too, as that's when I started regularly posting photos.

Thoughts?

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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Lance Birch wrote:

> I may as well chime in too; my blog hasn't moved (still at 
> http://thezone.firewave.com.au ), but now finally has RSS for those that 
> don't want to keep checking if it's been updated (ha, as if there is 
> anyone doing that!).

Oooh. Yeah, I found your RSS feed a while back. I always anxiously await 
your superb photographs. You have real talent, there!

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Lance Birch wrote:
> Rune wrote:
>> "Lance Birch" <-> wrote:
>>> I may as well chime in too; my blog hasn't moved (still at 
>>> http://thezone.firewave.com.au ), but now finally has RSS for those 
>>> that don't want to keep checking if it's been updated (ha, as if 
>>> there is anyone doing that!).
>>
>> You had that blog before the word blog was even used. :) 7 years and 
>> running is pretty impressive by blog standards i think...
> 
> Heh, I guess that's true.  I remember when the word "blog" appeared and 
> I thought it was silly (and to be honest, I still do).  I prefer 

I think blog was actually a contraction of "Web Log" long ago, in a far 
away land, I kept a web log in regard to a program I wrote, and some 
add-ins to an artificial life simulator I was very involved in at the time.

> And that brings up an interesting question - should I load the old 
> entries in?  I've been pondering that recently.  They have very little 
> value to anyone, I think, and really everything prior to 2005 could 
> probably go too, as that's when I started regularly posting photos.

Maybe for the sake of completeness, could also be interesting for the 
readers. I dunno, unless it's just a string of daily banalities, then 
I'd just let them go.

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Lance Birch wrote:
> 
>> I may as well chime in too; my blog hasn't moved (still at 
>> http://thezone.firewave.com.au ), but now finally has RSS for those 
>> that don't want to keep checking if it's been updated (ha, as if there 
>> is anyone doing that!).
> 
> Oooh. Yeah, I found your RSS feed a while back. I always anxiously await 
> your superb photographs. You have real talent, there!

Well that's very flattering, but nature does most of the work for me ;)

Speaking of new photos, I'll be posting some new ones over the next 
several days from my trip to the snow (and then after that will come the 
ones from my trip to Fraser Island, which is a spectacular place!).

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Lance Birch wrote:
>> Rune wrote:
>>> "Lance Birch" <-> wrote:
>>>> I may as well chime in too; my blog hasn't moved (still at 
>>>> http://thezone.firewave.com.au ), but now finally has RSS for those 
>>>> that don't want to keep checking if it's been updated (ha, as if 
>>>> there is anyone doing that!).
>>>
>>> You had that blog before the word blog was even used. :) 7 years and 
>>> running is pretty impressive by blog standards i think...
>>
>> Heh, I guess that's true.  I remember when the word "blog" appeared 
>> and I thought it was silly (and to be honest, I still do).  I prefer 
> 
> I think blog was actually a contraction of "Web Log" long ago, in a far 
> away land, I kept a web log in regard to a program I wrote, and some 
> add-ins to an artificial life simulator I was very involved in at the time.

Yes that's right, "web log" => "weblog" => "blog", which is part of the 
reason I've never liked the term, heh.  It seems a bit silly to join and 
shorten the result - "blog" doesn't sound very elegant to my ears. 
Never-the-less, that's what we're stuck with now ;)

>> And that brings up an interesting question - should I load the old 
>> entries in?  I've been pondering that recently.  They have very little 
>> value to anyone, I think, and really everything prior to 2005 could 
>> probably go too, as that's when I started regularly posting photos.
> 
> Maybe for the sake of completeness, could also be interesting for the 
> readers. I dunno, unless it's just a string of daily banalities, then 
> I'd just let them go.

That's pretty much what they are... in fact most of it, up until I started 
posting photos, has been that! (and even now some of them are, heh)

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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> Yes that's right, "web log" => "weblog" => "blog", which is part of the 
> reason I've never liked the term, heh.  It seems a bit silly to join and 
> shorten the result - "blog" doesn't sound very elegant to my ears. 
> Never-the-less, that's what we're stuck with now ;)

Too similar to "bleargh"?

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Lance Birch wrote:

> 
> Well that's very flattering, but nature does most of the work for me ;)
> 

Heh, Yes... but to reproduce nature on a computer screen so beautifully ...

Are you a Canon user?

http://photography-on-the.net/forum is one of the forums I frequent. 
You'd fit right in, unless you're already on there (And if so, PM Guineh 
(me))

> Speaking of new photos, I'll be posting some new ones over the next 
> several days from my trip to the snow (and then after that will come the 
> ones from my trip to Fraser Island, which is a spectacular place!).

Looking forward to it.

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Lance Birch wrote:
> 
>>
>> Well that's very flattering, but nature does most of the work for me ;)
>>
> 
> Heh, Yes... but to reproduce nature on a computer screen so beautifully ...
> 
> Are you a Canon user?

Nikon, although my friends are all Canon users so I know a reasonable 
amount about them as well :)

> http://photography-on-the.net/forum is one of the forums I frequent. 
> You'd fit right in, unless you're already on there (And if so, PM Guineh 
> (me))

I'll check it out :)  In general I try to stay away from such sites, 
because hearing about everyone else's new toys makes me want to buy more 
equipment ;)  Speaking of which, I just realised that I damaged my camera 
on my snow holiday.  I dropped it onto a snowgrooming machine but at the 
time it didn't seem to result in any issues (and I've been using it since 
without any problems) - however, I just discovered its onboard flash no 
longer works, so I guess it did do some damage after all.  Hmm.  Upgrade 
time? xD

>> Speaking of new photos, I'll be posting some new ones over the next 
>> several days from my trip to the snow (and then after that will come 
>> the ones from my trip to Fraser Island, which is a spectacular place!).
> 
> Looking forward to it.

Should be a new one online in the next hour or so :)

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> Yes that's right, "web log" => "weblog" => "blog", which is part of 
>> the reason I've never liked the term, heh.  It seems a bit silly to 
>> join and shorten the result - "blog" doesn't sound very elegant to my 
>> ears. Never-the-less, that's what we're stuck with now ;)
> 
> Too similar to "bleargh"?

Something like that :)

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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