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Eight Blogs I have Created and (in All but One Case) Abandoned

  1. Kate's Weird Website This was, I think, a blog I made in my year 9 IT class when we learned to 'make a website' (i.e. use a free online website template -it was called something like freespace). I have a vague memory of a grown-up at some stage in the process (either an IT teacher or my mum, when I worked on it at home during my designated computer hour) being unsure about the name of my website -they were concerned that it was too negative and probably worried that it was a symptom of low self-esteem. This annoyed me at the time, because revelling in being 'weird' was a key part of my personal brand as an Emily Strange-loving, black and red striped sock wearing teen. Also, it was alliterative. KWW (imagine if my name had been Wendy or Wren? Oh, well!) had red text and borders on a black background and consisted of a blog, a page listing my favourite bands (Green Day, Good Charlotte, Alkaline Trio) and a couple of placeholder pages that would remain perpetua...
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