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(This is my fifth post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
Over on DIY Photography, Alysa Gavilan as a good introduction to freelance photography as a career. It’s worth a read if that’s something you or someone you know is seriously thinking about that as a choice.
I’m not summarizing articles here, but I’ve known a few freelancers and photography business owners (Are you a freelancer if you have employees?) and because of that I offer some additional advice:…
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This is the first community builder post I’ll be doing this Blaugust. There are around 140 blogs participating in Blaugust this year. Here are the ones I already follow. How do I follow blogs? I use a feed reader. There are many free and paid options available. I currently use NewsBlur, which is great, though I am considering migrating to something cheaper and more basic. All these blogs have a feed — just paste the blog URL into a feed reader and you’ll get all their posts in one handy feed.[1]…
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This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post.
I’m now in my third term of music theory. Back in the first term, I created a handy reference sheet for major and minor scales. I just added a new ref sheet for what’s called applied (or secondary) chords.
A Bit of Music Theory
(If you know basic music theory, go ahead and skip this part.)
First, listen to this music snippet:
Here is the music score for what you just heard:
If you enumerate the C major scale – C-D-E-F-G-A-B – you see that C is the first note. T…
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I guess it’s official now that Mike Caulfield has finally blogged about the new film podcast we’re doing: Couch to 4K. In fact, we’ve been recording episodes since April as we’ve tried to figure out both our chemistry and some kind of workable format. I’m easy—I think everything I do is great, especially when it involves talking about movies. How wrong can one be?* We have three episodes out so far, and now that I’m back from my extended vacation and Mike has taken over production duties, things…
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Last year, it was comments. This year it’s AI. Now, I think if you’re going to blog, you should do it yourself. Using AI for inspiration, I suppose, is okay, but the actual writing? Why bother having a blog if you’re not going to do the writing yourself? The entire point of blogging is to express yourself. That doesn’t happen if Chatty Jeeps does the work for you.
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I know, it’s not fair to call a note “banana cake- rant” and not mention “banana cake” once. Might I remind you, “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde. I almost quoted Princess Bride, but Wilde is a better fit.
Saturday, August 1, 2026
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Okay. I want to call someone out for being an a-hole. Their writing is impeccable, funny, matter-of-fact. But it’s easy being contrarian when you’re nobody online, hiding behind a mask.…
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My childhood friend Eric lived in a yellow house at the end of a cul-de-sac. We spent our summers and after-school evenings playing video games (SNES, later N64), ping pong, and street hocky. We blasted the Mortal Kombat soundtrack on CD and played tackle football in the back yard. Young and indestructible, we never donned helmets or padding, but wore our bruises proudly.
Eric had a neighbor named Matt, a regular kid, but two years older than us. Matt was lanky and tall and, owing to the age dif…
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Words on this, https://noisydeadlines.net/a-few-strong-opinions-about-ai
I agree, AI words, images and video are extremely unsettling (to me). It's everything but human created. In fact the most non-human thing anyTHING (in this case, a computer) can generate.
It's like a fever dream. Or some well-detailed hallucination. The words I've read/heard from AI (via people using AI to narrate YouTube videos) has “enough” human-like mannerisms and gestures, but that makes it that much more perverse. I d…
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There are a handful of albums that I've listened to front-to-back over and over hundreds of times throughout my life. These records are not only a collection of songs, but carry a powerful throughline from start to finish.
Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, The Mountain Goats' The Sunset Tree, Joni Mitchell's Blue, Frank Ocean's Blonde, and Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. If you've pegged me for a Tumblr-era /mu/core Millennial…
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This here, what you’re reading right now, is my first blog.
I don’t have much of a history of writing on the internet before I started Many Welps. As I said this weekend, I used to write for a now defunct comic book review site in 2014. That was my first experience writing on the internet, using WordPress, and publishing something I wrote to a wider audience. I wouldn’t classify it as blogging but it was quite fun. I was surprised they kept letting me write for them, honestly. They weren’t payin…
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So Robert Birming is doing something called AuguStory, and I'm feeling spontaneous. It's been a long time since I've done a blogging event.
I have to write the story of my blog for this prompt. He has given us some ideas to work with:
How did you first start blogging (what got you into it)
What platforms or sites you've been on over the years
Has your blog changed focus or purpose over time
A post from your early days you'd point people to
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When I saw today's #RPGaDay2026 prompt was charm, I laughed, scratched my head, and sat here thinking about it. You see, I'm not a very charming person in real life. I'm a very forgettable person with the personality of a rock. This prompt gave me some thinking to do from a game developer's perspective.
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It's a day late but I've answered the Blaugust group project prompt: 'Tell us all about your very first blog!'
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Lately I´ve been sharing my 3DS with a sibling, wanting to get a second one for her this led me to the chaos of the second hand market, here are my thoughts.
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House House, makers of the delightful Untitled Goose Game and Panic, makers[1] of the fascinating Playdate, have teamed up again to release Big Walk.
It's a game where you "hang out and get lost with close friends in a big world." And the trailer makes it look cozy as heck.
For most of my gaming life I have been a solo gamer, playing mostly various flavors of (J)RPGs, (Action-)Adventures, and Platformers. Notable exceptions are Rock Band(s)[2], Mario Kart(s)[3], Super Smash Bros.(s)[4], and Fina…
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The next expansion for the MMORG, The Lord of the Rings Online, was announced on the 1st August, via the gaming website MMORPG.The Wolves of Mordor, which will launch later in the year, appears ambitious in scope as it will include two new game systems as well as the obligatory story update. This expansion takes place in Draugardh located in the North East of Mordor, beyond the Plateau of Gorgoroth. It includes the new zones of Heledhris, Parth Rhavas and Nan Ogol. These vary environmentally ran…
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Sometimes a piece of media comes along that makes you think “Gee, did they make this just for me?” and while the answer is obviously “NO”, for me personally Star Driver feels that way.
It released back in 2010 and was created by Studio Bones, known at the time in the west in particular for Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater and Ouran High School Host Club.
The anime is a beautifully animated combination of mecha, song pieces and magical boy. Yup. Boy. The titular boy Takuto is the Ginga Bishounen (…
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TLDR: I migrated my blog. Please email me if you notice anything's amiss!
What should you do when you’re busy and have been spending too much time on your blog lately? Why, dive head first into a completely unnecessary SSG migration, of course!
I had Hugo on the brain last night for somewhat valid, somewhat flimsy reasons:
I used Hugo in the past and liked it.
11ty’s fast, but Hugo’s wicked fast.
I’ve been writing more Golang code lately.
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My very first blog? Why, you’re looking at it right now! Tee hee… I like the group projects anyway, but I had to do this one, it was such a gimme. I started this blog in the autumn of 2011. … Continue reading →
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The mother of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student grade student killed in U.S. airstrike on primary school in Minab:
I had prepared dinner for him and when he was eating he said: “Mom, the food you made tastes like heaven.”
I said: “My son, why are you saying this? You’ve never said this before.”
Around midnight he put pillows around himself and sat with his brother. He said: “Brother, let’s play. I’m Iran and you’re America. Let’s play with guns and tanks.”
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OpenAI, in a blog post on Monday entitled “Apple is getting this wrong”:
Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details. This careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to that reputation.
I’ve neglected to write about this surprisingly venomous lawsuit on JAG’s Workshop. In case you missed it, Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly poaching employees and stealing trade secrets. Among the many allegations is…
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A trip into the history of my website and when it changed from a collection of animated gifs and text into something resembling a blog.
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I sit in my easy chair, a hotel sec deposit arriving at 6 AM which brought about a walk to get fruit from WM. I was already at WM to buy the fruit when the refund hit, I just decided to get a bit more. Two cartons of smokes. Snacks and cigs through the day.
I felt like I wanted to visit some old sites. Blogs. Landing pages. I looked up Neil Ungerleider, a former Fast...something journalist, former blogger for journal of a journalist. Different life and times now.
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TV-14 · Series · Season 2 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
Boldly go one step closer to where it all began.
Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
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My Rating
Watched: August 4, 2026
Rating: ★★★½☆
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I signed up for Blaugust on a whim thinking it was a post daily challenge. It turns out there are weekly prompts too (albeit optional), with the first week focused on sharing why we joined.
So here's why I joined: there's been a lot of change in my life, and I haven't really sat down and reflected and written for a while. I'd like to set apart some time to do this. I'll also try to post write1 daily, which is not something I've attempted before.
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For those few who follow this blog, you may have noticed an uptick in posts. I made a decision that I needed to either blog regularly or give it up. The algorithm heard me and presented me with Blaugust 2026, a daily blogging challenge held each August that has been around since 2014. The original … Continue reading My Blogging History →
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My very first blog
Today's group project opportunity in the Blaugust event is the following writing prompt:
I started my very first blog on 7 December 2005, more than 20 years ago. I was a university student back then, full of optimism and energy. I started blogging just days before my very first book was published. Yes, I wrote two books, maybe three. I'll post about them later. Promise.
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With this episode, number 72, Michael Branson Smith and I are 4 films deep into our series on international independent films from the 90s. We started down under with Muriel’s Wedding (1994), then we headed up to Tehran for The White Balloon (1995) then on to working class England with Life is Sweet (1990) then we jumped over to 1920s China for Raise the Red Lantern (1991).
Like many of the films from this series, I first experienced them as a young 20-something in independent movie houses in an…
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I Thought I Had a Consistency Problem
I'm going to unload a little more today.
I have been wrestling with whether or not to shut Patreon down. Since Christmas 2025, all I’ve done there is bleed paid subscribers. I was growing steadily and absolutely thrilled about it. I went from 0 to 500 dollars monthly last year, which isn’t the most amount of money, but it was exciting to feel like I was on my way to making it as a self-employed numerologist working online, and that small subscription income…
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You know that feeling when you're brimming with excitement about doing "a thing"? You feel energized and motivated and just happy. So you sit down and do the thing... and then it's like all the reality of the world falls on you. It's not what you saw in your head. Or it feels bad. Or it turns out to be way harder than you thought. And just like that, the excitement's gone, and you're left disheartened.
Wrestling with watercolour lately has put this cycle on repeat for me.
My brain thinks it's al…
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Speaking of changes and of Wholesome Games, I am always looking for ideas on what I can play with our daughter or what I can let her play on her own once in a while.
She is not allowed to play anything with violence, anything that isn’t age-appropriate, or games with online interactions. It should also not be a game that uses predatory tactics to urge her to continue playing.
Her favourite game right now is “Bluey – Let’s Play” (the free mini games, not the expensive monthly subscription). She l…
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unique personalities of cats: focusing on IttyBitty's quirky and changing nature as an affectionate rescue
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Like many millennials, my first endeavor with the internet came as I was in my middle Teens and my introduction to blogging was through the amazing LiveJournal. I used to blog about the mundane everyday life of a teenage girl – with witchy inklings and just dipping her toes into the online social life that would consume her.
I still have a friend on social media from my LiveJournal days. Shes outlasted my high school friends whom im drifted away from and while it’s very much a passive relationsh…
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All the niblings were pretty into the World Cup but the six-year-old was extremely into the World Cup. He really likes facts. Be they about Pokemon or football, if he gets a book of statistics he will have it memorised in days.
I don't care about football. I'm not in the fandom. But this is the UK so of course I know a lot about football, much more than I care to. Yes, I do know what the offside rule is.
So I was quizzing him about World Cup match scores and player stats and just trusting the an…
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I had a different blog post in mind for today, and I still plan on typing that one out tomorrow, but I would be remiss if I didn’t write this one out instead, short as it may be. After all, I did say earlier that I reserve the right to put out quickie blogs!
You see, I always like it when one of my favorite MMOs gets an influx of all-new players, and today marks the start of the game’s arrival to the Nintendo Switch 2 system, and just like when the game arrived to the Xbox before it, I’m looking…
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Venture into dungeons to gather ingredients and cook up a storm in your restaurant to pay off a lot of Debt!
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It's time to go back to music class as I have another memory from the same music class (possibly from the same year).
The Ghost of John. This example is by Sharpe Music. Obviously I can't share the exact version I heard in class
I know little about this song. My limited research suggests this is an old folk song and it was commonplace in elementary school music classes. What I do know it that it's creepy as hell! This song scared me when I was a kid. I am haunted by the memory of this being sung…
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After reading a few posts from fellow bloggers about how much it costs them to run their site, I am intrigued as to how much I am actually paying for this passion project of mine! Check out the last section for more examples.
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The requirements for hosting a personal site and a commercial one is vastly different. Everything mentioned on this page applies to the former. There’s also a multitude of ways to host a blog, and everyone’s tech stack is different, so keep that in mind.
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Andreas posted some interesting thoughts, wondering if maybe we are too paranoid when it comes to AI slop. Please, go read his words first, I only intend to add to the conversation here, not to put him in an uncomfortable position or something, we are friends and everything after all—even if he barely mentions my posts on his Link Dumps… 😭
As someone who posts to the internet and exposes a fair chunk of my thoughts out in the open for everyone to read. It is undeniable that, as free as we are, w…
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I had a fun day today! I went to work, and then went to a new meetup. This is something I found out about the day before - the alumni of a programmer's retreat in NYC in my city have a weekly meetup apparently, where techies get together and do remote work, and afterwards they discuss interesting problems faced during their work/side projects.
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In one of those Repo Man lattice of coincidence moments, I was suddenly hit with a couple of unrelated posts about Monopoly the other day, which is the sort of thing that makes you think… at least think about Monopoly. So I did. Or tried.
The first was from Bhagpuss, who brought up the apparent reveal of a RuneScape edition of Monopoly.
RuneScape Monopoly – Image stolen directly from Bhagpuss
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Ask a hundred WoW players which expansion was the best and a good chunk of them, without hesitating, will say Wrath. I'm one of them. I've played every expansion since, and none of them ever quite got back to what Northrend felt like in 2009.
Part of it was the setup. TBC pulled me in, but Wrath was the first expansion I got to walk into on day one, already max level, already ready, no old-world slog standing between me and the new stuff. You picked a boat to Howling Fjord or a zeppelin to Borea…
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My word I'm having so much fun delving into the newest incarnation of EverQuest. Yesterday I advanced myself to level 16 and explored a bunch of old zones that I really just kind of ignored before . . . because I could. When I started, I was a high elf locked in the whole Greater Faydark area and grew up being lost in that whole area over there.
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A while back I wrote about having a slight addiction to my Kindle Paperwhite, and well truth be told I’m still believing that I have a very strong addiction to it now. Last time I ever talked about the genres that I really enjoyed it was mostly Paranormal Romance, and... Continue reading
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What do you get when you cross Super Smash Bros. with I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream? The answer is Dead by Daylight, an asymmetrical horror game where 4 survivors attempt to escape a deadly game of cat and mouse against a killer. They do this by repairing generators which are needed to power up some gates that will allow them to leave the lethal playground, and then do it over and over again. For eternity.
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This is my response per the August 4th Group project prompt from Krikket => https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/23/blaugust-2026-calendar-weekly-prompts-group-projects/
Arguably you are looking at my first blog: (Ubergeek) Kelly’s World, first introduced in April of 2003. I’ve talked about my blogging history in previous Blaugust events, but this time I’ll try to aim a bit more specifically at the when and what of things.
Not a blog: Geocities (1996 – 2003)
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It’s a damp early morning, the house clearly recalls the past hot day better than the cooler night. I’m playing a four chord song on my piano: my voice leading is clunky, the rhythm is uneven, and I couldn’t be more pleased to spend five minutes like this, skill-taste gap be damned.
Even though I’ve played piano and other instruments in the past, it feels like starting over again. They say that to be an expert at anything, you need to practice for 10.000 hours. Well, I’ve only…
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Ok, look, I know I made these prompts, but I wasn’t thinking about myself when I was doing it. I was looking for a topic that would fit the weekly theme, that just about anyone could write about regardless of what they normally blogged about.
It was only after thinking about it for a little bit, I realized that I already did this for a prompt back in 2023! Oh, how the time flies.
I answered a little more complex question, and it was a heavier post than I had intended when I started writing –that…
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August is here and so is blaugust. I stumbled upon that post in bluesky and since I want to write more, I figured I’d join. I’m already four days behind so I need to ramp up. In order to meet the goal of 31 posts, I’m going to try to do two posts a day. This aim-for-the-moon strategy has served me well in other side-quests (ha! there’s another topic).
Since I need to write A LOT, I’ll start by listing all the ideas I have in my backlog here.