On Monday I was going through the excessive amounts of email addresses that I owned (I make new email addresses often. It's really random, but weirdly enough, my dad does it too. We have our reasons, but you can call it genetics I guess.) More specifically, I was trying to sort out an old Google Account that was connected to a YouTube channel with home videos of me and Annica's friends (aka, Random Stuff To Do When You're Bored, read more about it in our about page.) Not knowing I was still logged on to this old Google Account, I went to Blogger (originally to work on this blog) and unexpectedly found a blog that I created back in 2011. 

It's a pretty basic blog, with only one entry written. But nonetheless, here it is: purplepolk-a-dot.blogspot.ca! 

"Hot blog name." 

I know right.

I was pretty, let's say, unsophisticated at the time the blog was made, and I bet you I didn't even know anything about a blog other than that you write stuff in it. But I will definitely say that though I have grown up since 2011 and my style and way of thinking has changed, my thoughts on blog writing is, like, on point with the blog post, it's not even funny. I don't even need to follow up and expand on anything because that post is point-blank everything that needs to be said: Why should I have a blog? Well, not? How should I write on this blog? Write like myself. When should I write? Whenever I want. And most importantly: what should I write about on this blog? Anything. EVERYTHING!

And there you go, I have a blog ;)

Good job 2011 Millie, you're always one step ahead.

After finding 'Purple Polk-A-Dot' I immediately commenced my search for more of my fetus blogs and websites, as I've always loved making websites because of my dad's love of making one too. I was able to find a few good ones (sadly I couldn't find all of them), and I've mustered up a few of them for you lot to see:

musicmania3000.webs.com - A music related website with Disney Channel music videos, piano chords and an article on "How To Start A Band" (2009-2010)

chatta-box.webs.com - A "social media" knock-off of Facebook where you can chat with friends, create posts, play games, and post and watch YouTube videos. Fun Fact: I actually chatted with my friends on this website for a surprisingly amount of time, and we reached a total of 10 members before everyone got bored and left ouch (2010)

knititandweave.wordpress.com - A blog that discusses all string-related art. I only published two posts though, one of them which teaches you how to knit! (2010)

Nostalgic Post Pun-Comic Thing!

Just a short post today kids. Don't get used to these daily blog posts, I'm just excited that I'm writing again hehe :)

So say you wanted a "Twitpic" to be tweeted whenever you post a picture on Instagram, you could say if a picture is posted on @ --- on Instagram, then a tweet will send on @ --- with a link to the picture. If This Then That, you get my drift?

Lets try to create a recipe that saves my posts on Evernote whenever I publish a new blog post.

While 'Creating a Recipe', you can choose a trigger channel as your first component. I'd choose Blogger as my trigger channel, as that is the 'this' in my recipe. 

Once you've chosen your significant 'that' channel (the that is from if this than that, if you still haven't caught on), you can individualize and tweak your recipe even more.

Seven easy peasy lemon squeezy steps later, we are done with our recipe! It's quite tough to explain everything clearly in blog post without using the words "thingy, stuff, and like" a billion times with many arrows pointing to things and a tutorial video! In other words, this post is very confusing (apologies for that, I tried my best) and does not do this website justice. You must try it to understand fully.

This tool is the most user-friendly, convenient service I've ever encountered. I suggest you all should give IFTTT a try, seriously. Even if you've got no 'recipe' in mind, just give it a go and experiment! Like I've said, the recipes are infinite, so I guarantee you'll find one that didn't even think could be possible. Take a quick look at the other recipes others have created and shared in the 'browse' section and choose one you'd like to use. BE LAZY AND FIND WAYS TO CONNECT EVERYTHING TOGETHER INSTEAD OF DOING THINGS THE LONG WAY! That's what I did.

Have fun!

Voilà ;)