Week 9 on our site hasn't been activated yet, but I thought I'd jump the gun and forge ahead anyway during a free moment and logged on to YouTube. I've heard about YouTube but I've never seen it, so I was quite looking forward to this whole new cyber realm, particularly after reading Julie H's blog where she waxes lyrical about all the different sites she enjoyed. [As an aside, isn't it interesting the things you learn about fellow colleagues with this Blogging caper. I had no idea she collected handmade perfume bottles!] Anyway, I logged on to YouTube. Oh--My--God.
Maybe I should've waited for the link. Or, is this what confronts everyone who logs into YouTube? Porn, porn and more porn. More tits 'n bums on one pc screen than I've seen in the last ... pffff, pick a number of years. 'Booty' is obviously the er.. 'hip' word for 'shake that thang, grrrrl' and I lost count of female derriere sites sporting names like 'BootyBucket' and 'BootyContest'. Scrolling further, desperately hoping to stumble across something like a sane handmade perfume bottle site, I got "Atheism must be destroyed - pest control for the 21st century". And "Cute Asian Girls". And "Fluflix - Inspired to share your view of influenza?". And "Get free radar on your mobile" "FeetFetish" "Feetgirls" "Sleeping is Fun" Yadda yadda yadda Ad Infinitum. I just couldn't stick with it anymore, and attempted to move on to PodCasting.
Yahoo! has a Podcasting tools site, and there was a 'listen to this update' widget. I started to have a listen when I noticed a dialogue box stating "Sorry, but this site is closing on October 31". My personal God of 'Give a Girl a Break' really needs to crank his act up I thought, and moved on to the lesson's next task - the World eBook Fair site. I was delighted with the introduction, particularly the 'Message from Michael Hart'. Check it out for a dose of the WOW factor. It's a very visually busy site, but I finally got to where you can bring up a free eBook. And, you guessed it, Murphy's Law is alive, well and living in downtown Cranbourne. You can only dive into these eBooks during the month of August unless you're a paid-up member. *Look at calendar, scratch head, yep, it's definitely October*.
So I figured as I logged out, it just serves you right DT, you should've waited for the links to be activated instead of stumbling through all that drivel.
Week 9 Take Two will hopefully make for more inspiring reading. Stay tuned.
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."-- Groucho Marx
