THE B-WORD

Blogging and money… In case you didn’t know, Scott Burgess is running a pledge drive. This line in his latest post struck a chord with me:

The very future of the Ablution depends upon the extent to which this week's drive for donations can impress my wife, whose patience with my unpaid endeavours is, while great, by no means infinite…

As yet I haven’t seen many pieces about how blogging affects spouses. Have many been written? Marriage counsellors probably have a few tales to tell. My wife, after weeks of dropping hints, has now banned me from working on my laptop downstairs. (Don’t tell her, but I’m in the kitchen now. It’s all right - she’s out to work today.)

Blogging and creativity… I loved the cartoon in the current issue of the Spectator. A man chats to a stranger at a cocktail party while working on a laptop:

"I thought I had a book inside me but it was just a blog."

Blogging and activism…. Another quotation from Blog!

If Lenin were alive today, he would probably be a political blogger, although he would have had to lose his pedantic and overlong sentence structure.

Hmmm, maybe.

Comments

[wendy james]

Your wife might enjoy the "Lament of the Computer Widow":

http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiJOHNAND2;ttJOHNAND.html

[Clive]

Nice one, Wendy. I don't have a wee Macintosh, but otherwise it's pretty close to home...

[Wat Tyler]

For some reason Mrs T is enthusiastic about my blogging activities. She says "it clears me up out the way".

[Clive]

She makes it sound like a laxative (which I suppose it is, in a way).