50 1/2 topics you could blog on

Whenever I sit down to blog, I pick a topic or an experience that has some integration (however broad) with the theme of 'design'. Sometimes the link may appear obvious to you, at other times not.

But in my mind, every post is themed this way.

Following the fanfare and hooplah over my hundredth posting, it was inevitable that post one hundred and one had to follow.

101 is a number you see and hear everywhere. Welcome to first year at uni. This is the number of tasks you have to complete today at work. This is how many ways there are to skin a cat. 101. Heck, my sister-in-law even has a blog called '101 UFO's'!

I was tempted to sit down this evening and supply you with a list of 101 things you could blog about, in keeping with tonight's theme. But I'm not going to, because (a) I've just come back from a very intense business trip and (b) I'm on my second glass of wine for the evening.

So 50 1/2 will have to do.

Here goes ...

1) Your maternal grandmother's family tree
2) The US presidential elections
3) Why a tired person shouldn't drink two glasses of wine before blogging
4) Who invented shoelaces?
5) What function goats serve in a natural ecosystem
6) Why, week-after-week, you're drawn to watching All Saints
7) Why you should / shouldn't wear red to a job interview
8) What type of car you drive and why it is the coolest thing on smokin' rubber
9) Is it just me or does Kevan Gosper (I.O.C.) look like Lt. Stillman from Cold Case?
10) Why politics has a way of getting into just about every aspect of human existence
11) How the Irish saved civilisation
12) Why the Lord detests dishonest scales (I swear the bathroom scales in our house are wrongly calibrated!)
13) Why you should never work with children and animals
14) Ugg boots
15) Making a billy cart
16) What rites of passage exist among retirement village residents
17) Why the Atkins diet makes you the thinnest man in the cemetery
18) Why the men in the Flintstones communicated more effectively with their wives than most men today
19) How long do you tolerate a keyboard withaspacebarthatdoesn'twork
20) SLR cameras: digital or film?
21) A short history of the 'Dummies Guides'
22) Ziplock bags and why they totally rock (except when they don't)
23) Whether or not your burial casket will be environmentally friendly in design
24) Why cats with three legs should be called 'Tripod'
25) Whether or not candles can be manufactured from elephant earwax
26) Who decided that it was good for us to lick envelopes?
27) Why pedestal fans collect so much grungy dust
28) Who was the first person to say, "I believe this carpet needs underlay"?
29) Whether or not Napoleon really did shoot the nostrils off The Sphinx
30) When did it become acceptable to 'wrap' gifts in a glittery bag?
31) Which translation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov you should read
32) Exactly which woman in Paddington Square did not know Noel Coward was a homosexual?
33) How many people believe Stallone speaks in his own dialect?
34) The Christian fish and its presence on the back of a speeding Volvo
35) Why the person who designed Venetian blinds never had to clean them
36) How the owners of HD-DVD feel now that Blu-Ray is the way of the future
37) Why the powercords are always missing off electrical appliances left on the roadside for council collection
38) Paisley curtains will return to haunt us. Discuss.
39) What to do about neighbours who insist on making every evening a rock concert
40) How often you should cut your grass
41) Which strategies should be employed when a conversation stalls
42) Whether or not you could watch Memento played backwards
42) The delicate social phenomenon of pointing out to an honoured guest that their fly is undone
43) What you do with the old corks from your wine bottles
44) Why nothing is the same as your old pillow from home
45) What will it take to drive someone towards the invention of a cyclone-proof umbrella?
46) Why Australian power plugs make the most sense
47) Which criteria a cat uses when it decides to sharpen its claws on your favourite deck chair
48) Why women continue to go mad for Tom Jones
49) So long, and thanks for all the fish
50) Your deliberations on when Gough Whitlam will cease to be a cult hero, and lastly ...
50 1/2) Why Times New Roman?

Okay, I'm done.