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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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Sum1

about 6 hours ago
In response to "Printers"

Beholden

Ditto

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Beholden

about 6 hours ago
In response to "Printers"

All good points, Sum1. I guess my only consolation is that, by the time the 'puter has forgotten all the stuff I've secreted away in its many corners, I'll be long gone from this world.

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Sum1

about 7 hours ago
In response to "Printers"

I agree with you here Beholden

. The age of printing is over in my humble opinion. What you said is so true. BUT, while employed at a Firestone Tire Plant, my boss would print every email he received, then read it at his leisure. To me that was wrong, because the digital age was supposed to get us out of printing everything. But what a lot of people don't realize, is that when you save documents on a hard-drive or USB drive, etc., it's not there forever. Since theose devices are magnetic, that magnetism will eventually weaken. Your document can become corrupt or be lost completely if not properly cared for. How many people know how to do that? I don't. I would think that 10-15 years is the longest a document will last in a digital format before it's gone. Of course you can referesh it, save to a new type of format. But saving it and thinking it will be there forever is a wrong way of thinking.... And no, I don't trust the cloud. Not because it's unreliable, but because of hackers getting into things. I don't have much that I think one would want, but you never know.

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Beholden

about 9 hours ago
In response to "Reviews and All That"

{{size:4}suser:greenwillow} They go up by 1 at a time, those 100 recogs. So they arrive unexpectedly (unless you're counting, of course). Which is why I mistakenly thought they were a monthly total of reviews.

Beholden

about 9 hours ago
In response to "Reviews and All That"

Tiggy

Goodness what a handle {don't remember looking that up before) - quite sobering in fact, "time and ashes" indeed. But thanks for sorting out the matter of a badge for each 100 reviews. Don't remember ever noticing that either, although I presume I knew it once.

Beholden

about 9 hours ago
In response to "Reviews and All That"

Ned

Not really being picky, just musing. And musing incorrectly it seems, as Tiggy pointed out. I get reviewing badges so regularly that I assumed the unexpected ones were monthly. But they're for each 100 reviews, it turns out. Not that I care a great deal.

Amethyst Angel 💐

about 9 hours ago
In response to "Reviews and All That"

Wait, what? I had no idea they add 1 CR for every 100 reviews

When was that implemented? I'm trying to remember if I noticed my CR suddenly jump up by 12 at some point...

Tiggy

about 10 hours ago
In response to "Reviews and All That"

Is this what you are referring to?

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The 15 review recognitions are for 1,514 Total Reviews Given - 1 CR for every 100 reviews.

Does that help?

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Ned

about 10 hours ago
In response to "Reviews and All That"

Well, if you review one poem a day, then every 7 days you get a CR. Then you get one per month, you say. So then you should have seven times the number of reviews to CR plus one every four weeks except CR includes all the badges for visiting and forums and such. I don't think it's calculable. But, since they're not redeemable for cash, I wouldn't get too picky about the accounting.

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Ned

a day ago
In response to "Telling It As It Is"

The truth can make one sound a lot of things and most people will take offense. But, if you're conceited you won't notice.

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May 31, 2025 at 9:24am

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Telling It As It Is

Telling It As It Is

Sometimes you have to speak the truth, even if it makes you sound conceited.

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