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Blogging and Fatherhood

December 14, 2008 by Dave!

I’ve wanted for some time, since the birth of my daughter really, to blog about my experiences as a new father.

I think writing in general provides a path to clearer thinking and new ideas. That’s been my experience with blogging in general. However, in blogging about fatherhood, I also wanted to create a running diary of the changes I’m going through as a new father and the changes my baby is going through as she’s growing up.

That’s where the problem comes in.

I’m pretty open about my life here on the blog. I do reserve intimate details about my personal life and I rarely blog about work (I said I was open, not stupid). I don’t mind because, well, it’s my life and I’m in control of it.

However, when it comes to blogging about my daughter, I’ve been very conflicted about it. I don’t want to expose her life on the Internet in the same way, for a myriad of reasons.

First, it’s not my life–it’s hers. I don’t want to say things that, while true, might needlessly embarrass her. Second, I don’t want to expose her to, well, the Internet. Whole lotta creeps out there. Third, I want to be able to be completely honest, and not worry about censoring myself because of who might be reading the blog, or because she might read it someday accidentally.
For all those reasons, I’ve decided to blog about my baby and fatherhood anonymously. Or at least, as anonymously as anyone can ever really be.

I’ve set up a new blog under a pseudonym where I can blog about my family. In fact, I’ve already got two weeks of posts up over there. I’m not going to link it here (duh). I know that someone, with enough effort could probably track it down and link it to me, but for the most part, there’s nothing that links it with me here.

Now, if you know me and are interested in reading it, send me an e-mail and maybe someone will send you a link. Otherwise, continue to read about me, my rants and such right here.

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Filed Under: Baby, Blogging, Fatherhood, Personal Tagged With: Baby, blogging, Fatherhood

Should bloggers accept free stuff?

February 18, 2005 by Dave!

Ernie the Attorney asks the burning question on every blogger’s mind these days, “Should bloggers accept free stuff?”
There’s only one answer to that: back up the truck, baby, papa needs some schwag!! 🙂

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Changes…

February 14, 2005 by Dave!

I made a few minor changes to the ol’ blog tonight. First, I added my logo to my RSS Feed… let me know if that breaks anything. Second, I added a blogroll, just because I read a number of great blogs, and I figured they deserve some exposure. If you feel left out of the blogroll, just ask… I think I got everyone, but I’m only human, and it’s late.

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Would you like to put your penis on a diet and play some poker?

January 5, 2005 by Dave!

I’m not sure where I went wrong. Maybe it was my choice of titles for the blog… “Preaching to the Perverted” does sound like some kind of weirdo porn site these days, I guess. It’s actually a reference to a PWEI song.

Maybe it’s the fact that when I was visiting my brother in Japan, we were asked to take an “English Tourist” survey at Nijo-jo by the Hachigaok Jr. High English Club, and I foolishly took their picture and posted it on my site. Now, the most common search bringing people to my personal web site is “japanese school girl”. Of course, it fluctuates. Last month it was “atheist” because of this photo.

Whatever the reason, I’ve apparently been targeted as a compulsive dieter with a small penis and an addiction to Texas hold ’em. There must really be something to spam because anyone who knows me can tell you that description is dead-on.

So recently, in between hands of poker and poping diet pills while applying for a super-low rate second mortgage, I decided to add a CAPTCHA test for comment submissions. Not because I want to stop you, gentle reader, from taking advantage of these great offers people have been posting to my site, oh no! I want you to get your diet pills, card games, sexual enhancement devices, porn, mortgages, car loans, etc. I just want my cut of the action, like Evan.

And it did work… for about two days. The CAPTCHA test cut my daily comment spam down from 25-30 per day (yes, you read that correctly) to zero.

Alas, all good things must come to an end… and I came in today to find that I’ve already received 15 spam trackback pings today.

*sigh*

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A New Look…

September 20, 2004 by Dave!

Well, you know you’re a geek when you’re completely stressed out, overworked, and what really calms your nerves is hacking the templates for your blog.
So here it is, a new “look and feel” for Preaching to the Perverted. Let me know what you think.

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