What’s Up Wednesdays: Turning Thirty
July 30th, 2008 by Michael KwanWhile previous editions of What’s Up Wednesdays have focused on success and girl bloggers, this week’s mashup is a much more of a mixed bag. You’ve got everything from international fashion to some geeky web code. Whatever it takes to get over hump day, right?
Let’s start off with Richard Eriksson, the guy that serves as the basis for this post’s title. Better known in the blogosphere as Just a Gwai Lo (gwailo, in Cantonese, refers to white people), Richard celebrated his birthday on Monday. Well, maybe “celebrated” isn’t the right word, because he doesn’t sound all that thrilled about turning thirty… even if he doesn’t feel like he’s thirty yet.
Fellow Dot Com Pho member Ed Lau is still partying it up in Japan, going to sumo tournaments and dining on exotic cuisine. Along the way, he has also encountered some rather outrageous hairstyles, like those seen at the Yoyogi Park. These musicians have got plenty of flair, that’s for sure.
Jennifer Mattern of All Freelance Writing describes ways that you can expand beyond freelance writing and blogging to get more mileage. Maybe I should write a book. There’s got to be an audience out there, right?
You may know Chris Bibey from ChrisBlogging.com, but he has now launched a new blog that focuses exclusively on reviewing the content of other blogs. I’m flattered that one of the first posts on BloggingWords.com is a review of Beyond the Rhetoric. Naturally, he says that I rock (because I do).
Even great photos need a little help sometimes, but it can be very time-consuming to go through each one in PhotoShop. Derek Semmler has devised a very simple method to frame images with CSS. This way, every picture you load up on your blog will come with a stylish frame. Now he just needs to deal with the RSS issue.
And that’s what’s up! If you want to be featured on a future edition of What’s Up Wednesdays, be sure to follow me on Twitter and leave plenty of comments here. Grab my attention with good content!
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As for partying…I think clubbing is better in Taipei. Clubbing is far too expensive to do on a regular basis (let alone 4-5 days straight…) in Tokyo since the trains close down at midnight. I packed it in early one night at 3am and took a taxi home (near Shibuya) from Roppongi and it cost me nearly $50! That ride would’ve been less than $5 in Taipei!
Of course, the solution…which I did most of the time…is simply to party until the sun comes up and the trains come back at 5:30 or so.
We need to party in Taipei again next year.
Why wouldn’t you blog about me? lol
Though i wont be able to attend this DotComPho
I’ll be on Hornby woo!
I have you lined up for In The Sphere on the BlueFur blog.
Gwai Lo, isn’t that what they call the guy in Tokyo Drift?
Thanks for the linkage, although I may have burned this bridge with my entry into your contest!
Is Ed ever going to leave Japan?
I agree that Derek has some work to do with the RSS portion of his CSS framing method
Probably not much that can be done for that though…
I need to do some testing but don’t inline styles come through in the RSS feed? That would be more cumbersome but at least RSS readers could see everything.
Sadly, yes. I will be back in Vancouver on August 17th.
About time! How long of a vacation was that?
“he doesn’t sound all that thrilled about turning thirty”
More like “sure it’s a milestone but it’s nothing to get carried away about”. That said, it’s been a good birthday week so far, since it started out with a welcome reminder of how many people I love and that love me back.
Thanks for the link!
Thanks for the plug, Michael. And you are right, your blog does rock!
That Derek is always havin’ them contests! Happy 30th Michaal. You da man.
I’m not looking forward to turn 30. Nor 25… lol
I think I’ll turn 29 a few times before turning 30. I think 30 is probably the age where I have to get…like…serious and I’m not sure I’ll be ready for that in 5 years.