#7 and #23 Farewell

I forgot some time ago to talk about technology so here goes has anyone been to Second Life yet? It's a virtual world where you can pretend to be someone or thing you're not (if you're lucky you may even be able to have an avatar that looks like a blobfish) and wander around doing stuff. At the moment it is fairly rubbish to be honest but it does have a lot of potential once the hardware and bandwidth measure up. Keep an eye on it and look out for the blobfish.
Anyway, it is time for this blobfish to return to the depths of Bass Strait and continue the easy life of floating around like a gelatinous mass. I have enjoyed my stay on this blog especially looking at You Tube. I'm sure a lot of this stuff will prove useful over time and some of it has already. Farewell. For Now.
The Blob

#22 E-Books

Project Gutenberg is a laudable attempt to make the classics available online to read and now to listen. They have this weird robot like voice that reads the books but I suppose you get used to it and I have met people (but not blobfish) who speak just like that.

Podcasts

Podcasting (#21) has passed me by, after spending 4 hours a night looking at You Tube videos when do you have the time to listen to podcasts eh? Still I have had a look at various podcast search engines and found a history podcast to add to my bloglines account. I doubt I will ever listen to it though, maybe they could make a video and post it on Youtube...

Blobfish take over Youtube

You have to love You Tube (#20) and we blobfish do. Check out a piece of experimental blobfish art from the site!

It's not all work, work, work for us blobs. We like to kick back and relax as much as the next species. To prove it heres a picture of me and the lads after a hard night on the tiles looking a bit worse for wear though I like to think our natural good looks happy go lucky personality still shine through.

When not painting the town red we also like to play around on our PC. Heres a new fangled game which is currently hot on the blob gaming scene. It's from a site which won a prize in the WEB 2.0 awards (#19) and as you can see is real, bleeding edge stuff. Hope you enjoy it.

Click to play!

blobblog #18

Todays blog is being written on Zoho Writer a free on-line Office Suite which loosens, just a little, the iron grip of the Microsoft Empire. I would also reccommend downloading Open Office 2.0 which is a free replacement for MS Office and works just as well.

WikiBlob (# 16 & #17)

Wikis are great. Wikipedia is great although their Blobfish entry is a little on the small side for such fascinating creatures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blobfish.
Wikipedia will tell you anything about anything and most of it is true.
Incidentally, don't get Wikis mixed up with Kiwis, if you don't know the difference just consult the fountain of all knowledge!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_%28people%29

Blob 2.0

Well, after the disappointment of the election when the Blob party vote was wiped out by the Kevin 07 brigade I am now turning my attention to technology. I have been looking at Del.icio.us (#13) and Technorati (#14). And my blog posts should now be tagged to Technorati - except they arent because of system slowness and Technorati is timing out so the blogging world at large will still be missing out on the world of blobfish - for now. Delicious is probably good to use instead of the web browser bookmarks-if you get in the habit- wish it didn't have such an annoying name though, bit too clever-clever for us plain speaking blobfolk.
If you have been on the web for a while like most Blobs you will know a lot of this Web 2.0 (#15) has been around for a fair while, long before the 2.0 name came about, I suppose its a useful slogan (like Kevin 07 and "Working Families" but definately not like "Go for Growth") but I'm not sure exactly how much substance is behind it - you pick the stuff you like and use it just like you always have done on the Web. Still if it gets people thinking about using the Web for other stuff beyond E-Bay and Google thats good too.

Blobfish take over the world..

Blobfish don't read much, the pages get too wet, but almost without exception our favourite book is "The War with the Newts". This little know book written by a great visionary in the 1930's is about a little known sea animal lurking in the oceans which, by exploiting the complete stupidity of humanity slowly takes over the world. This idea resonates very deeply with us blobfish and we look forward to the day when we have a wonderful watery, salty world to play in, a world without the fishing industry! Or any industry at all for that matter. A great start to this is the increasing number of desalination plants being built on (currently) dry land across the world. By using huge amounts of energy to increase global warming these wonderful inventions are hastening the day when the antartic ice starts to melt, coastlines retreat and we blobfish have more room to roam. We blobs live in the Bass Strait between Victoria and Tasmania in Australia so we were particularly glad to see a new desalination plant being built on the Victorian coast near our own stamping ground, of course it's likely to harm the ecosystem around the coastline and harm populations of a few coastal dwelling sea creatures, but being deep sea bottom dwellers far from shore we don't really care about those wimpy "coasties" anyway so thank you Mr. Bracks and Mr. Brumby - bring it on!
Oh and if you want to find out about the great "War with the Newts" check out a site called "Library Thing" (#11) and read the reviews..

It's election time and we blobfish have already launched our campaign. Billboards are up in all the major cities and oceans of Australia. We have a strong policy platform of throwing money at everything and everyone (especially everyone in marginal seats) and promising anything that will get us a few votes. Watch this space for more exciting policy announcements based on empty promises and bribery!

This is from an online image generator (#10). As a wee blob my dream was to play football professionally. Unfortunately I am a gelatinous mass and have no legs so with all the will in the world it just wasn't possible.

Blobfish on the Net

We blobfish have taken over the internet with blogs everywhere ("better to be on the net than in the net" as we like to say). I have added some links from bloglines so you can learn more about the wonderful world of us blobs. Heres how one blog describes us "To remain buoyant, the flesh of the blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water; this allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. The relative lack of muscle is not a disadvantage as it primarily swallows edible matter that floats by in front of it."

So what is it like being a gelatinous mass you ask? Well, we are completely spineless and can float along making no effort to do anything. So it's a lot like being Peter Garrett really.

Blobfish

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Originally uploaded by ladysubaru_24

finally, heres my wife listening to a speech by John Howard. Does she look a bit bored and depressed? Well, yes she is, who wouldn't be eh?

Excited Blobfish

and here is one of me showing my excitement after the preliminary final (I'm a big Geelong fan)

Funny ha-ha Blobfish

Blobfish
Originally uploaded by ladysubaru_24

Uncle Brian is the joker of the family, his witty repartee and risque jokes have us all in stitches!

Worried blobfish

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Originally uploaded by hrhswing

...and my sister showing concern and worry as her latest brood of 23 young blobs take their first tentative steps in the world

The many faces of a blobfish

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Originally uploaded by marko boni

We blobfish have a reputation for being dour looking folk, but this is not true! To prove my point I've added some photos from flickr to show the many faces of a blobfish.
This first one is of my brother, overcome with happiness after learning he has a become a father for the 237th time.

Welcome to Blob World

Hello and welcome to my Blob World, the thoughts and writings of one small blobfish in a big bad world. Regardless of how many fins, or legs, you may, or may not have, I hope you find something to enjoy in Blob World (unless you're in the fisheries industry in which case I would politely request you go and blog off elsewhere)