benjamin allen

Argh! Another topic, yes, behold… my Jato 2.5R! w00t! Well okay, not too hard now, don’t want to dislocate something. And it’s currently out of action, partly due to the completely bald rear tyres, but also due to the shredded one-way bearing in the EZ-start. Don’t know how it happened, but a new system is on it’s way to me, along with a phat (yes, I believe under the circumstances that is the correct spelling) pair of Anaconda rear tyres. Hopefully I will be back on the road in no time.
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I know I previously mentioned that I don’t visit many sites each and every time they update, but here we find the first exception. A List Apart manages to keep me coming back time and time again for a few reasons. Firstly, and this is important, they have some of the best content publishers (and thus, content) you can find, in their field. What’s their field? Well mainly web design, but they also branch out into the more theoretical stuff such as architecture, usability and accessibility. And because they have real writers, each writing about their specialty the articles they produce are some of the very best (well, that you can read for gratis anyway). I don’t see the point in constantly checking a site for updates when you then have to check the updates for content… You want examples? Sure, here you go.
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Topics, topics, topics.

Yes, that’s what my blog is about. No! I just wanted to introduce you to what I will hope to be including in the posts to come. Some background; I am currently finishing my first year at the University of Lincoln, UK, studying for something called a BA in Web Technology. Hooray. I think… What does this degree involve? Well it revolves around a few ‘units’ or subjects including Scripting, Creative Tech and something called ‘Organisations and Systems’. Yeh, all pretty self explanatory, the latter being exceedingly boring, repetitive and work-intensive. Speaking of work (yes, it does still happen) I will be posting my work here soon, for you to download at leisure. I will also include the grades I achieved and the notes on what could be improved so you can see more detail in what your looking at. Of course I’m definately not endorsing any kind of plagiarism, but copies will be here. Online. 24/7.

What else to do with university? Hmm, we don’t do much, but I may write about the exciting things that happen, or the interesting things I see, other than that I think University is pretty much covered.

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First topic I’m going to start is that of other blogs. Although I don’t religiously read many, hardly any in fact, my manic student lifesyle (yeh, right…) doesn’t allow for it, I do like to peruse the articles that may get Dugg or simply mentioned around the net.
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Yes, I added the ads, hopefully I will see some income from them but I doubt it. If you’re anything like me then you have complete ‘ad-blindness’. They don’t even bother you, in which case you don’t read them, in which case you may miss something worth clicking on. Unbelivable I know but they are advertising things that some people may want! Hey, it doesn’t cost anything to click does it…
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Well I finally got a proper blog. I bet everyone writes that on their new blog. Glad to be part of the crowd! What is there going to be on the blog? Well a bit of everything… It will be categorized (and yes, that is the correct spelling) though, so you can filter out posts regarding my dog from those regarding Adolpi.
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