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…and all adults in costumes and chicks trying to be sexy wearing devil horns and slutty clothes and people acting like it’s absolutely obligatory for you to have fun in Halloween and clown faces and shitty makeup and christians raving about how Halloween is a paganistic feast and too much food and drink and disco parties.

But I still go out and have fun in Halloween.

Yay.

P.S. For all non-Greeks, these days are what we call Halloween.

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Have you ever found yourself feeling lonely and totally hated in the vast ‘nets?

Did trolls hunt you down in forums and hijack your posts? Have you ever been insulted by a total stranger for no good reason?

Have your like, totally original blog posts been stolen by strangers? Or your glittery avatar? Or your wannabe emo pic?

Has anyone *gasp* sent you e-mails in which he insults and threatens you?

No fear! Greek politicians are here to help you.

Soon in a blog near you. With a law as stupid as Greeks.

P.S. For the noobs out there, some stupid airheads of politicians decided to “guard” the greek blogs, to protect other people’s personalities, to sue unknown commenters and bloggers, because like, someone wrote bad stuff about them on the ‘nets. And they wanna make a law limiting bloggers’ anonymity and free speech.

How typical of Greeks. Such drama queens. Such noobs. Such ignorants.

I was never this much glad that this blog is in english. I don’t want anything to do with them.

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Blah I hate those. Yet Stelios called me into it. Thanks a lot, man.

Ok the rules are these:

1. Get any book that’s nearest to you at the time.
2. Go to page 123. If it’s short, get another that has at least 123 pages.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Copy the next three sentences (sixth, seventh and eighth)
5. Find 5 people to pass this game to

What I found near me was Designing the Obvious by Robert Hoekman Jr. The three sentences required are:

The “Click here to add text” statement positioned in the center of new text blocks on a JotSpot Live page serves to tell new users exactly what needs to be done to add a new note, and gives experienced users a visual clue to where the next text block begins. This text block also uses a different background color than others inthe page to make it stand out even more. A quick glance at the page reveals exactly where to add the next note.

So there. Bla bla bla.

Svelon, Stelios, John, Yiannis and hm. Don’t have enough people to send this too, boohoo.

These days, Newspond.com is all the rage in link exchanging cycles - it’s a new, Digg-like tool that looks sexy as hell and twice as sleek.

Since it’s a relatively quiet Friday night, I decided to try it, but my workday won’t leave me behind: the critic eye is here again. I just realised I’m better in pointing out other people errors than correcting my own. But that’s enough food for another post.

So if you want to check a longish, kinda detailed design review a la Sugar, by all means keep on reading.

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What tools do you use to blog, dear readers?

Are you a hardcore Microsoft Live Writer or ecto fan or do you stick to ole trusty Wordpress Admin interface?

Do you stick post-it notes to everything blog-worthy or do you trust the long, long list of potential blog articles that float around your head?

Myself, when offline, I carry around a oh-so-hip Moleskine Ruled Notebook with a simple pen and I take notes on anything that may become a nice, juicy blog post. When online, I copy my blog notes to my Backpack @Blog page, which features a long list of potential blog posts and miscellaneous notes.

When I decide to sit down and write something (that is, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night), I open up my list, select a subject and add a Writeboard to my @Blog page. I love 37Signals’ Writeboards because they’re really the most distraction-free wiki-like writing space I can find online, plus they are included free with my Backpack account. And the typing starts.

When my draft is completed, I copy the post text to the Wordpress Admin interface, insert links, images, tags and whatnot, hit Publish and tada! Blogged.

Any similar blogging procedures out there?

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