Purple Pursuit

Her split personality always causes tension at blogging time. We help her brainstorm ideas for posts, but she has her own agenda. However, she does get guilt feelings about neglecting us whenever there’s a blogging conference.

This morning, we had a premonition in our soles that she was going to let us write a post for the first time in months! On Thursday she went to the WordCamp 2007 Israel conference, so we were bound to get to write.

In any case, the WordCamp conference was all about using WordPress, but she uses Joomla for her other blog. You have no idea how jealous she is of us, because we blog on WordPress.

We just can’t believe what she did after the blogging conference. Instead of posting about the conference, she decided to do housekeeping on her other blog!

Lorelle came to Israel for the conference, and among other things, she lectured about trackback spam.

Tamar went into a frenzy after that. She became obsessed with clearing out over 13,000 trackback spams on her other blog (she wrote that there were 10,000 trackback spams, but that’s because it was 2:00 a.m. when she wrote the post and it just proves that you shouldn’t write when you are overtired).

Our friend Ilana was at the conference too. Ilana declared in public that she didn’t want to use WordPress for her blog, and caused a lot of commotion in the Israeli blogosphere.

Ilana is right: having to keep up an independent blog is a lot more technical work than using someone else’s platform. Fact: Ilana wrote her post right after the conference, while Tamar ended up doing housekeeping on hers, and then writing a boring post. But Mark is right too: When you’re using someone else’s platform out of convenience, you could go down with the ship.

We write so sporadically that if our blog were on a free platform, we’d probably get closed down for not logging in often enough. That’s what happened to all Tamar’s stuff that was on Tripod and the old Geocities. Gone! Disappeared!

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Second choice if it’s too wet in Udaipur.  And we even figured out how to give the weather a purple theme

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This is where she wants to go, but it’s been raining there for the past few weeks. We figure if we track the weather for her so she can see that it will be sunny when she goes, then she’ll be so grateful to us that she’ll have to take us.

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