MenZa’s Weblog

This is it.
The Blogathon is now over. This has been an amazing experience for me. I’ve met a lof of fantastic people and had a great experience writing entries, reading other blogs.

Before I start getting all emotional, I’d like to throw in a little link to Chris here, for getting the answer in my contest, Macbook, right. Head over to his blog and throw a bit of money is his face; he’s blogging for the Assocation for International Cancer Research, just like me.

I never properly thought I could finish it–and I’ll admit, it was tough at times. I’ve blogged so much crap, yet I think I did print out a few decent posts.
Altogether, I’ve collected $119 with help from headzoo, Ulrik Jacobsen (who wishese to share “oiuysa sdfgthuiæø’” aswell as “‘po7654321uiopå“), Fida Amran, Indranil Dasgupta and the Anonymous sponsers who decided to join in the fun.

I’ve definitely learnt a lot from this experience. It’s never impossible to find stuff to write about–hard as it may be, it is never impossible (alternatively post a photograph or similar ;)).

A lot of bloggers decided to jump off the train before we got to the final stop. For that, I am sad.
A lot of people are still blogging, because they’ve chosen another time to blog at. Best of luck to you.

I can’t really think of more to say–my brain is completely numb. Thanks to everyone in #blogathon for supporting me–and the others–along the way. Here are a few acknowledgements:

Thanks to:
Joe, Fida, Serge, Thilak, Kamigoroshi, Nao, Paul, “Madonna”, Labrynth, Dave and whoever I might’ve forgotten (do leave a comment if I did).

Now, I’m off to bed. All ready for next year’s challenge.

I’ve decided to make a small competition–I just drew this thing because I had nothing else to do.
I can’t afford to pledge, as I’ve already pledged everything I could afford. Instead, I’ll plug your blog.

All the cool kids have them. So, what’s it going to be? You know which it is, even though that’s a pretty stupid drawing.

It’s all in the speed–whoever hits first, gets plugged.

Get guessing!

I’ve yet again picked up the pen to try and materialise my thoughs. The problem is: I don’t have any.

I’ve been doodling for 20 minutes now, scratching 3 mockups already.
Of course, I am pretty damin tired. I’ve been up for 24 hours now, and I still have another left.

So, any ideas? Preferably something simple. I’m horrible at drawing.

Everyone–at least every proper geek–remembers the old NES with games such as Super Mario Brothers, Ninja Turtles and the like (I remember playing tons of games, but I forgot their names >_<.

Labrynth got me a couple of pretty cool vids, which you can see here:

Video #01
Video #02

Anyone who’s played any of the old Nintendo gaming systems (the NES or the SNES), will most likely enjoy these games–perhaps all the way to the ‘64.

This year, it feels much sooner than any other year I can ever remember. Of course, it could be related to the fact that I’m starting a whole new school, or that I’ve been at work a few times.

Tomorrow (monday), I’ll have two weeks until school starts. Two weeks where I’ll be working Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and relaxing the rest of the week’s days.

I’m extremely nervous about starting a new school. I am bound to have a ton of new subjects–including Latin–and I know noone in my class.

Let’s just see how it works out.

I’m running out of topics to blog about. Fortunately, I’m running out of timne aswell: with only 2 hours and 30 minutes to go.
Even so, I think a service like coComment needs a few words and a kudo.

It keeps track of all your comments on any WordPress blog, Blogger, flickr, Movable Type and tons more, and it even has an API for developers of any blog tool to play with.

It collects all your conversations on one page, and even lets you read the new comments off the coComment website.

It’s a brilliant concept, and it gets even better with their Firefox extension (which is also compatible with Flock–yay!), which is even better at spotting comment forms.

It’s still in beta, and there are a few bugs, but I can definitely recommend you check it out.

After almost 24 hours of being up, I’m feeling immensely tired. However, there are still 3 more hours left of the Blogathon–and I refuse to fail.
However, it’s so bad I almost fell asleep on the toilet a bit ago. Oh, if only I had another energy drink for the last few hours…

I really can’t be arsed to write a status report now, so a monitor chain entry will do.

Here’s how it works:
Photograph this blog post (including your monitor and its immediate surroundings), and post the resulting pic on your blog. Then, the next person photographs your blog post and posts it, and so on. Leave your post URL in the comments so people will be able to follow the chain, and link your image to the post you photographed. This way people will be able to zoom into the monitors by clicking.

Acronyms such as ‘lol’, ‘rofl’, ‘lmao’ and a variety of others are part of the online everyday agenda.

A thing I’ve been wondering for a long time is… how do other people pronounce it? I personally go ‘lol’, ‘roffel’ and ‘elmao’. You? L-O-L, R-O-F-L and L-M-A-O? El mayo?

I’m starting to feel more awake now. I’m probably just past the tired stage and advanced to the next level–I don’t know what it is, but I definitely don’t feel as tired as I did just an hour ago.

Nor am I hungry.

All I’ve been doing for the past many hours is actually IRC.
I’m excited to see if I can stay awake for another 4 hours, but I certainly hope so :)