New blog home

I'm now blogging at dcbigmike.wordpress.com.

DC is quite a change from Bozeman. I miss the mountains, but I am really enjoying life in the "big" city.

Did you know that the 2008 Capitol Christmas tree was harvested in the Bitterroot National Forest?

Just call me Moneybags

My blog is worth $6,209.94.
How much is your blog worth?

Half and Half?

Using your browser URL history to estimate gender

Here are my results:

* Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50%
* Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%


Huh?

Well I'll be jiggered

I cuss, you cuss, we all cuss for asparagus...

Addicted?

71%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Blogger meetup - Saturday

At Big Mike's: details

(FYI - The weather is great right now.)

Update: "A fun time was had by all"

Blog-B-Q

What: BBQ (shish kabobs, etc.) for Montana bloggers and blog readers

When: 1-3 pm on Saturday, 9/22/07

Where: Big Mike's back deck (302 Sweetgrass, Bozeman)

(We might be pushing the season, but I'm expecting good weather.)

Why I Blog

(Note: I was tagged by Patia).

I blog because writing helps me clarify my mind - about life in Bozeman, books, movies, etc. I find blogging to be much less introspective than keeping a journal - you'll never read any stories of angst or emotional turmoil or romantic tales of bachelorhood on this blog.

I've met some interesting people via blogs, both online and in real-life. That never happens when you just write in a personal (paper) journal.

Most of the photos I post are aggressively non-artistic on purpose (yeah, right - it's all on purpose...)

I don't blog much on politics or current events. It's not that I'm apathetic - I'm just not interested in writing about such topics.

I try to be open-minded when I read other blogs. I think blogging, for many people (especially young people) is another way to "try on" ideas.


(P.S. - I "maintain" four other blogs...)

All ages admitted

Design in "blogger"

Most blogspot blogs (such as mine) are pretty bland. However, if you are willing to expend the effort and smarts, you can create a nice design using blogspot's "blogger" software. Here are a couple of nicely designed Bozeman blogs:

* A thought over coffee
* www.powderfin.com blog

George Eliot on blogging

I've recently looked at some right-wing blogs (and some left-wing blogs)...


With apologies to George Eliot:

To judge from their writings, there are certain bloggers who think that an amazing ignorance, both of science and of life, is the best possible qualification for forming an opinion on the knottiest moral and speculative questions. Apparently, their recipe for solving all such difficulties is something like this: -Take a blogger's head, stuff it with a smattering of philosophy and literature chopped small, and with false notions of society baked hard, let it hang over a desk a few hours every day, and serve up hot in feeble English, when not required.

Pics bloggered

Well, my recent photos have been bloggered - they look fine in "preview" but are chopped of when published. It's frustrating - I'd like to be able to recommend Blogger to newbies, but things like this don't help ;-(

You can (almost) always click on the photo & see the original in Flickr.

Bozeman blogs

When I moved over to the new Blogger, my blogroll got bloggered.

Here's an updated list of Bozeman blogs:

The Best of the Bozeman Chronicle Police Reports
Biggie's Bugs and Ramblings
The Big Sikorski
Bike Kitchen
bozeman boy
bozeman-mt
Bozeman Engineers
The Bozeman Fix
bozeman-mt
Bouncer Blog
Cascade Neighbors
A chicken is not pillage
Chrismukkah
collected nothingness
Cooking with Gosita
The Dude Abides
Easy and tasty recipes
Featherdust and Dewdrops
Geocaching in Bozeman, Montana
Inside Out
In all her infinite wisdom...
In the Mind of a Gangsta
Jule in Bozeman
kevin.lexblog.com
Lemon Curry?
Liberal Wacko
Life, by Tree
logistica-design
Looking Glass Eyes
merciless.org
missing60b
The Monkey Cage
Montana Diva
Montana News & Real (Estate) Report
MSU - bobcat blogs
MSU News Service
My World
NewWest - Bozeman
Oronaut
Pikestaff
Planet Aug
powderfin
Revolving Duck
Ron's Montana Musings
She Ruminates
Soylentfoo
Speedkill
Strong Copy Builds Brands
A thought over coffee
travelblog.org: Bozeman
The vulgar ravings of a drunken, Irish Catwoman
Yahoo!360 - Bozeman
72ppi

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Rather than listing all these blogs in the sidebar, I'll just point to this post. In the sidebar, I'll just list Montana blogs I regularly visit.

New Blogger

I've switched this blog over to the New Blogger, and also changed the template. It might take a few days to settle down.