My brother is the world’s worst blogger

My brother is behind such endeavours as Save The Mexican Wave (which earned a mention in Wikipedia), Newton Clothiers and Jonk’s Bargains. You’d think, with those projects behind him, blogging would be a cinch. Unfortunately not.

For starters, he is lazy. In a recent post (since updated), he didn’t even bother posting a link to what he was posting about, instead telling his readers to “Google it”. That is the peak of blogging laziness.

More recently, he stated he can’t figure out how to make archive pages work on his blog, which is a Wordpress blog. His problem? The theme his blog uses is not compatible with widgets. But that isn’t the half of it.

He told me, “I can’t figure out how to do an About page”. You already have an about page, I inform him. “What!? Where?” is his astonished response. So I showed him.

Exercise for the reader: go to the front page of his blog and see if you can find the About page. No, it’s still in the same place it was before.

“But how do I make a page?” Simple, dear boy. Hit the Write button and – “but I already know how to do that” (he says as Wordpress loads a blank post) – there’s a Write Page button right there!

“Oooooh.”

The silly sod can’t manage plugins, themes or anything else. I’ll be helping him out though. So far, I’ve upgraded him to Wordpress version 2.2 (with the Automatic Upgrade plugin), plus I’ve installed the One Click Installer (the plugin that installs plugins!) (Not a joke.) (Really.)

Good thing his content is often interesting. Check out the posts on the Christian candidate for the Greens party, Are we all just Sims characters in a giant simulation?, What are you number one for? and Internet marketing scams.

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You may have noticed I am not blogging quite so often as of late. The reason why is simple: my new job.

My new job is quite different to the old one. No waking up at 4am, no stinky co-workers, and the fact that I actually have to work at work. (As opposed to doing 10 minutes of work in a seven hour shift. I was well paid for it, too.)

I quite like my new job, but it means I can’t have a post up every day like I used to. Still, I should manage around three posts a week. That ain’t too bad.