Winning and being the best.

Here at whatever this blog is even called, we know all about winning, and whats more, being the best.  It would be egotistical to claim I was the greatest blogger of all time, and I can't find a way to subtly /jokingly imply it, so I'll just let that one lie, but you sure are the best readership ever, because you made the right choice, the choice for a future - the choice to read this whole blog thing. 
However, it would seem that recently we are not sitting so comfortably in our niche of top blog, or are being slightly threatended by the presence of others.  Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that outside of the circle of blogs run and updated by my own peers, there are some spiffing blogs, and I don't mind that.  What I do mind, however is that from amongst this churning blog bog, a few noticable creations have begun to raise their heads just a little above the surface.  Many of you will have heard of Yasmin's blog, one which gained popularity at quite a rate, but nothing serious, nothing we couldn't manipulate.  Aside from some appauling punctuation (sorry, Yaz) it's an interesting read and I keep myself updated with it from time to time, whilst never actively following it in the technical sense of the term. 


No these things do not raise significant issue and are likeable developments amongst what is predominantly the Davenant School community, increasing the freedom of speech of the writers and the choice of the readers, in some cases encouraging bloggers that there is some vague half-skill to the game, in the light of some new sites which, to be uncharacteristicly blunt, have failed dismally.  Already though, in my usual way, I have lingered for far to long on one topic, without even marginally reaching the krux, which is that the following statistics could be stated as true for the blog of my friend Chrissy Lamont:

5 days.  4 followers.  118 views.  That's an average of 0.8 followers and 23.6 views per day.  The threat presented here is Miss. Lamont's ability to update almost daily and engage readers, two things which I do pretty much none of the time and half of the time respectively.

Sean Eubanks is so great.  I love him more than is healthy.  Watch out for his hypothetical blog.

[Ellapsing of time]

I was in a free, now I am at home.  The magic of saving drafts.  The above was not hack of any kind, but just an attempt to make Sean like the idea of blogging, rather than thinking it was lame.  All for the cause.

Also, I checked out that blog I mentioned above.  I can't link to it becuase it's quite secret,  I only obtained the url through my leet espionage skills, but have enough respect to not pass it on.  Also linking to it would add to its popularity.  Frankly, I think it's mostly hype from the start of it, or girls or Scottish people just relating to the subject content.   It's a very good blog, but not (if at all) much better than this one.  I'd recommend you just stayed in your current, comfy circle of reading, and didn't go e-snooping in an attempt to find it. 

One thing that Chrissy's blog does have is pictures, which on some level's makes blogs more engaging, but I've never really cared about the aesthetics of the blog, I just like the writing.  Which makes this a special treat:

That is my left hand.  I took about a minute to take and upload and is not the greatest hand in the wold.  It's rather calloused from all the climbing and upside-down hanging it does, but I'm rather fond of it.  They say a picture paints a thousand words, but with pictures, the words are all a little bit slippery, whereas if you just write a thousand words, you actually have a thousand words.  I'm also pretty sure that you'd gain more information from 100 words than you would from a picture of my left hand.  I mean, I have magnolia wallpaper (I think?), but then so does everybody.

The latest and greatest in the world of Dave is the constant struggle to make my father understand that I have a right to decide what to do with my own money, and that his authority on the matter is only held in such regard as it is by me because I have no way of buying things on the internet.  All this before the Firebox.com sale on the NERF raider takes it back up from £23.99.  Whatever will happen?  What crazy new developments could possibly take place?  Join us next post to find out.