BlogSpeakGreet
Category: Navel Gazing...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 at 01:52 PM [GMT-6]

Rachel is a New Zealand blogger with that captivating Kiwi accent. She recently wrote about her upcoming trip to the States which will include her first visit to Texas, and in that post she evidenced her excited anticipation with a Lone Star-like "yee-ha!" I hinted that I'd really like to hear that yee-ha done with a Kiwi accent and she obliged with a short recording.

She then took things a step further, and recorded a couple of greetings for her blog (one in English and one in Maori)...and then challenged other bloggers to do the same (um, except for the Maori part). I thought that was a cool idea, and I've finally gotten around to recording and uploading one for the Gazette. You'll see a link to it in the sidebar near the upper right corner of the front page (if you're not there already). It's a 30kb mp3 of dubious quality, but perhaps it gets the message across.

I started to feel a little self-conscious about how I sound, but next week's webcast is going to do away with any pretense I ever had of staying faceless and voiceless anyway, so I guess it's no big deal.

If you've got a blog, I extend Rachel's challenge -- or encouragement; I think she'd agree with that term -- to do the same.