Let the coolness begin!

Hi, welcome to the Blog of Cool Things. I'm James, and this is where I talk about everything cool and interesting. This is my second blog, I ditched the first - Game Day Blog - after I realized I wanted to blog about more than just gaming. (However, I did repost my entries from Game Day - they're tagged 'Repost'.) Now, everything I want to talk about goes here, and it fits fine. But this is all very boring, and, ultimately, not cool or interesting in the least. So, let's move on.

Here, you can find a wide variety of... well, stuff that I like. I'll write up articles about everything I find noteworthy enough for my readers. In the coming months, you'll see a great deal of articles on dozens of sites, games, programs, and more. I hope to provide interesting news, reviews, tips, downloads, solutions, advice, videos... whatever my userbase wants to see this site grow into. Since I currently have no one to define what they want, I'm going with a general category of topics to attract the right first users to shape this into something of quality. (Seeing me struggle to dispense women's fashion tips doesn't seem very interesting, now does it? I need people interested in things I know) From there, we'll move forward either through your clicks, seeing which topics are most interesting to you, or through votes, letting you change what topics I focus on most as you see fit.

Soon, I'll have lots of great services available on my site, letting you communicate with me and your fellow users, get the latest thing I'm talking about, suggest future topics, and much, much more. And if you're really into it, hey, who knows? I just might let you put up some posts of your own.

The initial slurry of topics will include most of the things I'm into; here's a general list with some examples:

• Sites and services, like Digg, Stumbleupon, and GrandCentral (and that's just a few)
  
• Images (though I'll try to keep those to a minimum, it's a slippery slope to post a funny image instead of write actual content)
• Gaming - reviews, news, downloads, me pleading for money (for, alas, I am poor)
• Videos (No, not that kind of video)
• Programs (only the coolest)
• Humor - I'm not talking lame or silly jokes, I'll take this seriously. I might not post Humor often, but when I do, it'll be because I got at least a full laugh out of it.
  
• Misc. - A catch-all for anything that doesn't really fit above.

In addition to these categories, I'll tag all my articles with relevant terms, so you can look for lolcats, or Halo 3, or IRC clients - you get the idea.

I want people to love this site, so if you want something, ask. Don't be afraid to email me or post to the forums asking if I could put up a media streaming system on the site, I can. Games? Okay. Host a file for you? I'll certainly consider it. Ask and ye shall receive.

Welcome to the Blog of Cool Things, ladies and gentlemen. We've been waiting for you.