Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Anatomy Of A Web Trawl

We start off, as ever, in the rareified atmosphere of my blog home page. No new comments, once again, curses and all that. I would roll over in shock if more than one person a week, month, millenium added thoughts to this corner of the interwebs - hint hint, plug plug, whore whore...

A scroll over to site meter, to see who has fallen into my web over the last day. I get excited over the fact that I seem to have hit a good patch where people in their dozen per day are visiting - still wondering whether anyone is repeat visitors, but eh, you got to take what you're given LOL.

I open up a blogger session to put down my thoughts for the day - I was going to start off with work, or what I have eaten this week for lunch - was looking at the Tassie diary and I seem to love detailing what goes into my stomach, for almost every meal. But for some reason decided to give everyone a quick glimpse into my 'I've jumped online and I've gone cold turkey from chatrooms, what do I do now' mind. For some reason.

The next window to open is a toughie, but I decide to have a look at what is happening on the world news stage, checking out the top story on the BBC website, from whence I can easily retreat into the white noise - so much is going on, I am meaning - of the front page.

The other choice for a fourth page to open would have been The Spin Starts Here, which tonight comes in at number five, but I felt a tinge of guilt at the time I have spent there over the last few days and weeks - over and above seemingly my first (internet) love of international news...

Oh, and we do have an email account around here somewhere - the next page to have a pop taken at it is my gmail account. The only things that come in are endlessly recycled jokes, footy news from the Guardian and various airline specials. Of course, it could help if I sent a few emails outbound myself...

Later on in the surf, no doubt I will be heading to check out the latest NHL scores, the latest polls from Toronto in the Globe and Mail, see whether this week of Doonesbury is a repeat or not, maybe head over to Wonkette for an eye on what happened overnight in Washington, The Capital Of The World, see the casualty toll for the day on Iraq Coalition Casualties. And probably trawl the Guardian and New York Times.

That sounds about a full evening of webbing fun to me - oh, and of course the work and food blog entry, which will probably be worked on at various points in the night :)

Pauly

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