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Layout 19/20: Well, it’s certainly very florid and I can imagine other people averting their eyes in wincing horror but I quite like it. Actually, I like it a lot. I’m particularly impressed by the way the starry-sky background is a detail from the Van Gogh picture. You know, this layout really shouldn’t work and I ought to condemn it as pretentious, but it does work and I love it. I think the title (ah, witty self-deprecation, we don’t see enough of that around here) is great too, and part of the main reason you avoided charges of pompousness and pretension.
Links/Organisation 9/10: There are certainly a lot of links to organise here. I fear sheer quantity is your enemy in that it’s often quite difficult to find what you’re looking for but I have no intelligent suggestions so I’m not going to complain. Too much.
Contact 5/5: E-mail, AIM, tag-board (does that count as extras or contact, I wonder?) and comments.
Errors 9/10: At the time of writing this review, your tag-board appears to be unhappy and your mood indicator is also AWOL but I have a feeling that this has nothing to do with you. Just bad luck, huh? Other than that, I can’t find anything to whinge about. Well, we’d all be in a bad way if it was necessary to bitch-slap a journalism student for spelling and whatnot, wouldn’t we?
Updates 4/5: Gargh, blogging makes it really hard to figure this one out, as well as forcing the dedicated reader to, essentially, work backwards, up the screen. So I’m taking away a mark because I’m irritated.
Content 30/30: Great balls of fire, I’m entertained! You can actually make a bog-standard flight to Vermont as funny as hell. And you like Pushkin. This may be love. And, in manner of small child with attention span of fruit fly, I’m suitably diverted by all the gratuitous pictures. I’ve also come to the conclusion that the art of blogging is very different to the art of diary-writing, for example there’s a lot more space for sheer randomness. This could potentially get on my nerves except that I’m interested in the same sorts of things you are (pirates ARR!) so it all makes for great reading. I’m not very good at this praising lark but, to put it in simple terms, this blog is just fantastic and I love it to bits. You made me laugh out loud several times, and I got so absorbed I didn’t realise I’d spent nearly an hour reading everything until I finished. By the end of it, I wasn’t even reviewing any more, I was just enjoying myself. It’s possible that I’m just going into an orgy of glee to be finally confronted by a witty, interesting, un-angst-ridden, grown-up diary but I doubt it. I'm sorry I have picked any specific examples of Greatness but the blog format makes that difficult and the whole thing is one big Greatness.
Extras 5/10: There’s a notify list, many cool and/or random links, and a few other bits and pieces. But not so much I would consider bonusy. I guess there had to be somewhere in this review I was harsh.
Will I return? 10/10 Try and keep me away. Hell, I probably want to marry you and create a master race of passive-aggressive geeky bitches.
Total Score: 91/100 God, I’ve been far too nice... or, maybe, just maybe, you were far too good. If you were on Diary Land I’d favourite you. You're in The Amazing.
So says Justamephit.