In 2006, I mainly blogged about nothing at all – what I had for lunch, the courses I was taking at college, any small achievements in my own programming and deisgn projects that I’d made. I complained a lot, and also moaned a lot that I needed to think of a new design for my blog. At that time I was using Blogger, and one of the built in templates provided by Google. During the year I attended Spring Harvest, co-founded a Web design and development blog, complained I was bored, more than once, moved the blog to Textpattern, and yet again to WordPress, began life at University, joined the Big Band, attended a Fusion Student Conference and saw various movies at the cinema. It was a fairly busy year – but most of the blog posts were pretty badly written and of no interest to anybody (though what is to say that this post is? Perhaps nothing has changed!). I did post a couple of more detailed posts, mainly related to Christianity – what happened to them? Perhaps I need to get back into it!

2007 saw less blogs than my first year, but they were still of the same pretty poor quality! I did write another Christianity-related post, but the blog pretty much continued more like a diary. My blow-up sofa was popped, I complained (yet again) about being bored, finished my first University exams, saw more movies, found a house for our second year of university, moved into said house, helped out at the Party in the Square, went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, changed the site design and moved it to Expression Engine, and made a giant King of Diamonds for a friend.

There were even less blogs in 2008. I got the job at Cisco, changed the blog design yet again, and started trying to take a photo a day for a year. That soon fizzled out after about a month. My blogging started to showcase graphic design that I liked, and I moved into our house for my second year of University. This year featured one long, deep blog post, and I visited Alton Towers with the people from Cisco. This was the time of year that Annie and I got together, and we booked our holiday to New York. I started at Cisco, and went with them to Ascot, which was a first. If I saw many movies, I didn’t blog about them as much as I used to, and I started taking photos with my new digital SLR. I can’t believe that it wasn’t actually that long ago – it all feels like years ago.

So far this year, I’ve blogged a lot less than previous years. Perhaps I’m losing interest in it? Although I still enjoy it. Or maybe I’m more hesitant about hitting the Publish button on a post that’s pretty useless.

If only I had more interesting stuff to say.

Is it inherent in human nature to immediately fear something that is different from us? Many people in the film feared the mutants, simply because they were different – one young boy even rang the police when he found out his brother was a mutant – but surely that didn’t change who the boy was, his brother?

What is it about the human race which makes us fear change. Why does that fear sometimes turn to hatred? Why, because we fear something, should we immediately hate it and try to suppress it?

I don’t understand. X-men may be only a film, but the issues of fearing something different are true. It makes me think. What happened to all the good-will and love?!

They could at least use the right word. And does refurbishing really need a capital R?

Oh, Lord, please don’t burn us,
Don’t grill or toast your flock.
Don’t put us on the barbecue,
Or simmer us in stock.
Don’t braise or bake or boil us,
Or stir-fry us in a wok.

Oh please don’t lightly poach us,
Or baste us with hot fat,
Don’t fricassee or roast us,
Or boil us in a vat,
And please don’t stick thy servants Lord,
In a Rotissomat…

Apparently, my “personal power animal” is the Hamadryas Baboon, and Google and Wikipedia reveals that it is one of these charming chaps:

Lucky me! You can see all my results in the survey. Apparently:

According to the US Census Bureau°, 0.27% of US residents have the first name ‘Benjamin’ and fewer than 0.001% have the surname ‘Cardy’. The US has around 300 million residents, so we guesstimate there are 0 ‘Benjamin Cardy’s.

Oh well. Hope you get some good results for you!

On a different note, I’ve decided I am very disappointed with the general public of Britain and their inability to correctly use the English language. Spelling I can understand, because some words are difficult, but there is no excuse for poor grammar! I got a letter under my door the other day that said “knowone” instead of “no-one” and “their” instead of “they are” or “they’re”. The first one is just spelling, but it’s a ridiculous ‘mistake’ to make!

Prayer that there’s no problems with the house would be good, we liked it a lot!

Ben

On a different topic, we found this verse at Fusion, and I thought I’d post it on here to get some responses (not that many people read this blog).

Ecclesiastes 10:19 says “A party makes you feel good, wine makes you feel happy, and money buys anything.”

What does it mean by that? It says later on that money is the root of evil, money can’t buy everything, etc, but what does that particular verse mean? Even reading it in context (ie the whole of the chapter around it) it still doesn’t seem to change its actual meaning…

Any ideas?

Word of the day.

I made it up.