It's pretty much inevitable that the end of the year inspires us to take stock of what we've done well, what we've done poorly, and what we've failed to do in the last year. I asked one of my readers to offer constructive criticism. Here's the response [with links added by me].
"I most like when you have a theological insight, e.g. matrimony and the mystical union of the church. I least like the, I'm above it all, I'm not like those reformed bloggers, I didn't drink the kool-aid stuff…If you're smarter than the rest, prove it by building something more successful than theirs."
For these faults and many others, I offer this:
I confess to almighty God, and to you my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned through my own fault, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do; and I ask blessed Mary, ever Virgin, all the angels and saints, and you my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.
So I now pose the same questions to you, all my readers. What do you like the most about my blog? the least? What would you like to see more of? less of? I don't aim to please everyone and I'm nobody's sycophant, but I like to know what I'm doing well and/or poorly. It teaches me about myself and how much I have or haven't grown in my faith and as a writer.
Funky Dung
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Hey, some of us are Calvinist Evangelical R…Democrats…oh, yeah. Never mind!
I would change your blog all around, but as you've seen from UnSpace, that just seems to be the mood I'm in.
Seriously, I'd leave it the same. It's a good thing you done, Anthony! A good thing!
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Posted 31 Dec 2005 at 5:03 am ¶Funky Dung,
Pretty new to your blog and enjoy the content but personally I think the design makes it a little unfriendly to the eye, hence harder to read. It's a bit crowded and the font and colors tend to blur after reading for a bit. However, if you decide to leave it as is, I don't think you're going to lose any readers because of it. Keep up the good work.
Christopher
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Posted 31 Dec 2005 at 6:10 am ¶Like most: my link in your sidebar — but seriously, I most enjoyr the unique angles on current events from a religious perspective (but you probably already knew that).
Like least: infrequency of posts (come on, it's not like you have a wife or post-graduate work to distract you from the all-important blogging, right?)
And to echo (kind of, at least) the previous commenter, I could do without the background, but if it has your undying loyalty, I can live with it, I guess…
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Posted 05 Jan 2006 at 7:48 am ¶You do have an awful lot of links, images, and stuff that need to download before the page works or renders correctly. This is true both at work where I have a T1 and (a bit moreso) at home with DSL. I'm not sure what is causing it. There are others' sites that have oodles of stuff to download too, but I do not notice the signicant increment to download time with them. It may be that just a couple of the external loads are an slowish servers…
But this is a minor nit. I think you have a pretty good blog Eric… otherwise I wouldn't come around here… or post from time to time.
The background appears (to me) to be a close (but not precise) facsimilie of the vatican's (www.vatican.va) wallpaper… so in that sense it is a sensible choice!
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