I've been trying to get Bea (my clever niece) who lives in Malden, near Nijmegen in the south east of Holland, to start a blog and help me get my blog going. For lack of blogging company, I still haven't figured out how Trackback works or, indeed, what it is exactly.
I emailed.
Bea,
hello. Hope you got those photos. Please have a look at my blog (at http://www.conorthoughts.net). I am
not doing too well for the moment in getting it going. I need blogging
companions. It would be good if you started a blog. There must be lots of
places where you can start them for free.
Love,
Conor
Bea, however, is very busy. It is difficult to get hold of her. I eventually get get her on the 'phone. She tells me that she has a kind of blog on her website and suggests that I look at it. She emails the link.
Hey Conor,
this is what it says in my address bar when I go to my website:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/darkvlightbea/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_blogpart=myspace&_c02_owner=1&_c=blogpart"
I know it's very long but ... I don't think it works. Try anyway, or else try:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/darkvlightbea
That might work.
I havn't had time to look at your blog yet, and I have to do homework
now. I'll try to look at it soon.
Bye,
Bea
Neither link works. Bill Gates and his Microsoft gang are, I assume, responsible. It is less than half a blog that they are offering MSN users, a pseudo-blog.
Bea, as I imagine you are aware, MSN is keen to keep you within MSN once you are in there, the better to sell you products, either directly or by making you dependent on its software by getting attached to more of the features that it has to offer the better to then sell you services and products. One of the many ways it does this is, I assume, to only let you blog - pseudo-blog - with other MSN bloggers. So it keeps you within its walls.
There is no technical reason for MSN to do this i.e. no good reason why I can't just paste your MSN URL and look at your MSN blog. The reason is ultimately commercial. Bea, before Bill Gates and his Microsoft gang get you, I think that you should consider going open source, beginning, perhaps, by switching to the Firefox browser, using it instead of Bill's Internet Explorer, a switch that I have made recently and not regretted. Firefox is 'brill' as Martha [Bea's late aunt, my late sister] would have said.
I have emailed again.
Bea,
I have just posted something on my blog that might - or might not -
interest you. To make it less boring, I have included a photo, of you. I
hope that's O.K! I have also reproduced in it - published - a recent
email from you. I hope that that is also O.K.
Love,
C
Bea wearing my glasses in Dublin airport this summer while we were killing time with Paul (Bea's father, my brother) between flights
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