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All right, I’ve been wondering these last couple of days why I’ve been getting a whole lot less hits and comments than I was before. Decided that it was largely based on the fact that I was spending so much time talking about the US elections. I guess my obsession with it is a bit strange for most people. Oh well, that will be done in a couple of months anyway, so I’ll just live with the low hits for that time (after that I’ll have to find a new topic to write about). Still, in an attempt to keep my blog at least slightly interesting and make sure people check back sometimes I’ve decided to dedicate a few more ramblings to other things.

Today I don’t really have the time to write anything properly long and interesting, so instead I’ll give a link to somebody that does. I’m not sure how many of you actually read other unknown people’s blogs, but here is one that might strike some fancies.

Prison Pete is an incarcerated felon, whom writes letters by hand from his prison cell. Those get picked up by his friend, who then puts them on the Internet in Blog form. He’s been in Jail for eight years and apparently his attempt at appeal has failed, so he’ll be spending some more months there. Are you interested in the life of a felon? Warning, he does seem to be very sure of his own intelligence, so I hope a bit of arrogance doesn’t bother you too much.

Oh, if you’re wondering, he doesn’t tell what he’s in Jail for.

Then lets do another link, here’s one to a guy that works as the clerk in a porn store. What he experiences, what happens and what he learns. This one might have popped up on your radar before, but hey, I can’t always find stuff that all of you haven’t seen before (I do have something that you could vaguely compare to a life). So with that I’ve probably lost a couple more readers to more interesting Blogs, but at least I know I’ve helped somebody somewhere find something interesting to read, which isn’t all that bad (no, I don’t know either).

Anyways, the writing is succinct, the style is interesting and the subject is engrossing. I hope you’ll find it enjoyable (and slightly disturbing).

Interesting fact: Mongolia is the least densely populated country in the world, with only 4.5 people per square mile.

posted by Symbol @ 3.9.04