[blogfocus wednesday] the purpose of blogging

1. Matt Sinclair thinks it's about local government accounts:

Next, Limavady have a web tool I've seen on a few council sites. Basically it reads whatever you mouseover. Who is that catering for? If you're a blind person surely you aren't able to mouseover things so that they are read to you. The only people I can think of who could use such a tool are the extremely dyslexic and illiterate. If anyone knows I'd love to know who it is targetted at.

In the meantime all manner of fun can be had pushing the button in the bottom left of the page and then mousing over various items (although it doesn't appear to work on this computer - consider it a kind of lottery). They're all quite upbeat apart from "Payments" which sounds a little bored.

2. Meeyauw is quite clear that it is about cats and dogs:

See Buddy in the back of the chair? Scout never voluntarily sleeps with the cats. Amelia says that Scout fears them. Yet Sunday, when it was so cold and windy, Scout crawled into Buddy's chair for warmth. She is wary of him, because she fears Buddy's violence as much as Sophie does.

I am once again proudly hosting Cats on Tuesday while Gattina is in warm and sunny Egypt.

3. Harry Haddock is quite sure it's about binge drinking, condoms and perverted Jacqui lovers:

Binge drinking is a terrible problem that will finish us all. However, it will not be a long term problem because all of todays children (yes, all of them), are going to die from obesity by the age of 12 because of adverts for sweets on said telly in between children's programs that are no longer made in this country. ~ I know this because I have seen it on the BBC.

Their parents will be unable to save them, because the women, who have all suffered from the 'glass' ceiling at work and are forced to work part time in bars, are dying from cancer caused by passive smoking. The 'men', when they are not raping and beating up the women, are dying from a combination of mad cow desese, bird flu, foot and mouth, and bacon sandwiches. I know this because I read it in the Guardian.

Their sisters cannot take them to hospital because they are all pregnant at the age of 14, and have been banned from driving for shooting a war veteran while trying to steal his mobile phone, after obtaining a gun from the man in the sweetshop who has branched out due to the sugar ban. I know this because it was in the Sun.

The ambulance and police will be unable to attend as they have all been sent on diversity training courses after refusing to help a Muslim who was wearing a burka who was on fire at the top of a ladder due to health and safety. I know this because I read it in the Daily Mail.

However, none of this affects me. I know this because I wear a condom.

4. Finally, Matt Wardman thinks it's about falling in love and makes the wry observation:

I wonder if he is related to Highlander.