The Atheist Blogger

I had originally planned to sit down with my laptop over the Christmas period and write quite a few articles, perhaps respond to some other atheist blogs, and generally have a fun time. However, yesterday morning my laptop’s GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) suddenly decided to give up and die. I am therefore stuck without my trusty operating system, my feeds, my email client (luckily I still have Gmail’s awesome web interface), and all of my other programs I generally use from day to day. I’m currently forced to use the “family computer” which is running Windows XP and cannot handle most of the “Linux only” programs I like to use, including my *gaaaah* feedreader.

My Christmas plans have changed then, and on some of them I might need some help.

1) The “Big Fat Atheist Quiz Of The Year” relied heavily on my feedreader being active so I could read through a years worth of feeds. The interface shouldn’t be that hard to put together for it, so all I need are a load of good questions for it. Please please please if you have any questions you can think of involving atheism within the last year, use the submission form and send them to me. If every single one of my ~500 feedburner subscribers submit just one question, I should have (gets out calculator) 500 questions to choose from! Of course that’s not going to happen, but any questions at all would be good :D

2) On 29th December I’m flying out to Athens in Georgia (USA) where I will be until 11th January. I was hoping to bring my laptop, but the chances of that are quite remote now. As such, if anyone wants to write something for the holiday period and send it in, you will be most welcome. Contact details are here. I’ll also be asking people at my forums, so hopefully some content will be put together and scheduled before I leave. The problem with being abroad and without a laptop is that I am completely unsure how often I will get to use the internet.

3) I still have a few spotify invites if anyone wants t0 have some great music for the holiday period. I’m happy to say that 22 people have accepted invites I’ve sent, but 8 people have still to accept them. If I run out of invites I will be re-sending these ones since you haven’t accepted them yet (sorry, but holding onto them for weeks isn’t very fair).

Hopefully I’ll get some response from my plea for help (both quiz-wise and article-wise), but I will try to post things up until I leave.