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..