An Analysis of My Blog

Jennifer over at Life As I Know It pointed to some fun blog analysis tools today. Just for giggles, I tried them out too.

Typeanalyzer pegs my blog as being written by someone who is an Myers-Briggs ESTP. In fact, it calls my blog “A Doer.” Given that a lot of what I blog about is hockey (and the rest is about my dogs) I can’t say I’m surprised by this. On the other hand, I have consistently scored as ENFP on the MBTI. So apparently what I write about and how I really exist in the world are different. Shocking, I know!

ESTP – The Doers
The active and playful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.

The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.

Genderanalyzer thinks my blog is written by a man (with a “score” of 77% – whatever that means.) Given that their polling results suggest that Genderanalyzer only guesses right 54% of the time, and given that I write about (wait for it…) hockey a lot, I’m going to peg their mistake on my having “non-girly” interests.

The Blog Readability Test pegs my blog’s reading level as elementary school. Yup, that’s about right. I’m not writing a lot of complex stuff here, I don’t go into too many “big questions”, and as you can tell from my first result, I’m much more of a doer than a writer.

The (stupid!) How Much Is Your Blog Worth test gives me a big old goose-egg. Hater test. Just because I don’t do all those blog-for-$$ things out there doesn’t mean my blog’s worth nothing. But then, I suppose it’s hard to quantify and test for personal satifaction of the blog author in a test like that…

Psssst!

I updated my theme without copying anyone. If you read this through an RSS feed, c’mon over and take a look around. Let me know if anything isn’t working for you. I’ll probably do a little more tweaking over the next few days, but so far I kind of like it!

librarygrrrl.net: a screenshot history

I’m thinking about changing the look and feel of this blog again, thanks to some work that my friend Chanda has done on her site. Frankly, I’m thinking of using the same theme because I really like it. She’s got good taste.

And of course that got me thinking about the various iterations this blog/website has gone through. I haven’t taken screenshots of this site over the years, and realized that I couldn’t remember what all it looked like. Thank goodness I still have almost all of my old Wordpress theme files still loaded in my blog folders, and thank goodness for the Internet Archive. The old theme files helped me get screenshots of the look-and-feel from 2005-present. The Internet Archive helped me get screenshots from 2003-2005. I’m missing one iteration in there, which is the first 9 months of my Wordpress installation. Oh well.

From 2002, when I first registered the domain librarygrrrl.net:

I obviously kept some similar elements for the first couple of years. Here is early to mid 2003 (look! more links!)

And again… (and now we are in a column rather than a line. crazy!)

Hey there – I added poem to my home page in late 2003, and combined columns with lines for content links.

This was when I started using Thingamablog to blog. Despite the change in focus, there are a lot of similarities to the previous iterations (get with it and change the color and your icon, would you already?)

In between the previous screenshot and the following screenshot I blogged for 9 months using Wordpress. I can’t for the life of me track down a screenshot, but apparently it was a modified version of the Kubrick theme that’s bundled with the Wordpress installation. I’m still using Wordpress, but have changed themes a few times since then. This one was based on a theme called MX4 (unavailable now):

Here is the theme Less-is-Purple, which I modified and used for 2 years. I suppose it’s nice enough – clean and somewhat simple – but sheesh. It’s boring.

And this is my current look and feel, based on the Greenery theme. the color is a bit shocking, isn’t it? Now that it’s November, I’m a little startled by such a brilliant green, a green that shrieks “springspringspring!!!!” So I might change things up. We’ll see.

The new look and feel? Well, you’ll have to stick around and see what happens. I really ought to not swipe Chanda’s theme but oooh I like it a lot and will be hard-pressed to convince myself otherwise. Before I do that, though, I’ll head over to the Wordpress themes directory to see what I can come up with.