Monday, August 6, 2007

Issue 19: Note from The Editor

Welcome to Issue 19 of TopBlogMag.

The sounds track to this weeks issue is Kelly Willis about whom you can read more in our Voices to Hear music review written by John from altjiranga Mitjina.


The theme for this week is Questions, a theme that many of us can relate to whether it is the constant barrage of questions from our little ones whose inquiring minds want to know everything but attention spans rarely last long enough to listen to the answer before the next question comes; the "where is my..." questions from the bigger kids and supposed grown ups who think we are responsible for finding things they have lost, or questions like the ones I find myself muttering (or shouting out loud depending on the number of times we have asked the same question in the last 20 minutes) daily, like "where the hell has my post just gone?", "why won't this stupid computer do what I tell it to?" or the ever present, even if only said in our heads "What the F@*&k?"

As some of the more observant of you may have noticed I have a new blogging name, The Farmers Wife. After the harrowing 'father finding my blog and not being particularly happy about it' episode I decided to move all of my posts and comments and set up a new blog over on Wordpress which means that this last week in the Farmers household has been spent mainly asking questions of the last kind as I set everything up, moved all the stuff to my new sidebar and spent a few frustrated hours fiddling with the Wordpress code to tweak my new blog to how I want it.

Now that it is up and running again you are all cordially invited to come for a chat over for a glass or two of wine after, of course, you have spent some time browsing through this weeks issue of TopBlogMag.

Speaking of code tweaking, I have spent some time this week developing a new template for TopBlogMag as I can't seem to fix the viewing problems in IE for this one; so if you have any ideas or suggestions, things you do or don't want to see in the next design please leave a comment letting me know.

The Farmers Wife.
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