Archive for February, 2007
I got the proofs on Friday and have been slowly going through them all week. It’s a bit stressful, because I am on a tight deadline and between that and work and the holiday I am about to take, I have very little time to do anything else, like think or sleep. The illustrations look great and I am really happy with the text so far. I’ve made a few minor corrections, but mostly it’s just as I remembered it. It’s quite exciting to see it appear on all the various online book stores, even when I know it’s not actually “real” just yet. Roll on May!
February 28th, 2007
After months of people talking about it in conferences, etc. I finally decided to give Second Life a go. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s basically a virtual online world where you can go around in the form of an avatar and interact with other people from all over the world. That was a very, very simplified explanation, I’m sure the site itself can tell you a lot more. what I personally find so interesting about SL is that it is at once possibly one of the most advanced things on the Internet today (prompting people to start calling it Web 3.0) and yet the whole concept is basically a tarted up version of the real early days of the Internet where anonymity was king and everywhere was full of sci-fi and fantasy freaks with too much time on their hands. I must admit that being on there gave me the same sense of wonder I got when I was 16 and tried chat for the first time. It’s new, totally surreal and very, very strange (also, not entirely unlike Snow crash).
Continue Reading February 27th, 2007
So I’ve downloaded this theme for this site and I have to say that after a bit of tweaking, I quite like it. But I’ve just noticed all these weird characters appearing in odd bits of the site. I’ve looked through the code but I can’t for the life of me tell where they are coming from. This is truly bizarre. It’s going to be driving me crazy for weeks now. In case someone is actually reading this, feel free to let me know how to fix it, if you’ve come across it before.
February 23rd, 2007
A recent report has shown that 20% of British Internet users used dating sites in December last year compared to only 13% in America . The French, however, beat everyone, with 22% of their Internet users logging on for love.
December is traditionally a busy month on the sites, because the holiday season can make people feel pretty lonely. I wonder whether the figures would have been significantly different if the research had been done in a different month. Either way, if you account for the fact that not all Internet users are single, it emerges that online dating has now become pretty much standard in the UK. About time, too.
February 23rd, 2007
The woman in this picture isn’t me. I am not blonde, for one. Also, there is no way I would ever be this calm hanging off a cliff. I chose this image for this post because I want to illustrate something. I will get to that shortly. So welcome to my dating blog. I hope you will find it useful. As you may already know, my name is Shimrit and I work in the online dating industry. I’ve recently written the book you can see on the right hand side. It will be out in the shops in May, which should give you plenty of time to decide whether you like my writing style (it’s available on Amazon for pre order, in case you’re one of those mythical “pay now, buy later” people!)
So this blog is going to be all about online dating and dating in general and my (not so) humble opinion of both.
But before I start talking about dating, I’d like to open this blog by talking a little bit about being single.
Continue Reading February 23rd, 2007
