Monthly Archives: April 2009

How do you define your blog?

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So, the SA Blog Awards is going on as I type this. There seem to be varied opinions on the awards and their purpose. This post is not about that.

I got to thinking, through all time leading up to the awards, how does one define your blog in a single category? I mean, on this blog I’ve written about the web, coding, design, music, cooking and more. How do I define what “category” my blog falls under? Or, for that matter, do I define it?

In short, my question to you all is,

“Does one need to define one’s blog into specific categories?”

Bare in mind, I’m referring prodominantly to personal blogs here, not necessarily topic-specific blogs, as that goes without saying really.

A nerd’s definition of ‘beautiful’

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Recently, after I got a Macbook, I’ve been thinking a lot about the subtle elements that make working on a Mac different to other operating systems. The icons, the interface and the subtlties in the intuitive nature of the system as a whole. How every application designed specifically for OS X integrates into the system, makes use of native functionality and interacts well with other OS X applications (example: Pixelmator and iPhoto, or Apple Mail and Safari).

A while later, I expanded the above topic of synchronicity to the overall concept of beauty. How beautiful the synchronicity is. I then thought; “this is definitely a nerd’s definition of ‘beautiful’“. Hence, my latest nerdicle on Nerd Mag discusses this further, stating, “beauty is:”.
Read my latest Nerd Mag article.