| Sorry to see you go and I want to say that I have enjoyed touching base each day. Thanks for the intro to Whole Wheat Radio |
| Thanks very much for all the interesting reading. I'll miss my daily visits to your site. Hopefully, I'll continue to run into you on Wholewheatradio. |
| Months ago someone tacked the Nigerian email scam parody on the bulletin board at work and I became hooked on the j-walk blog. As a former TV consumer reporter the Nigerian thing cracked me up. My brother in law works for an international agency that deals with the Nigerians a lot and his entire office loved it. They probably helped circulate it around the world a few times. Thanks for all the time you put into the blog. Good luck with your books. |
| I started visiting your blog after the Nigerian email conference was posted on slashdot. After that I made sure to visit your site at least once a day. The links that you posted daily on a myriad of topics always made the day at work seem to go by a bit faster. If you hadn't posted by 10am I would start hitting the refresh button on my browser hoping to load to that day's links. Anyway, just wanted to thank you for your hard work at putting up such an entertaining web log. |
| Thanks for the Blog. I was tuned in everyday and catchups on Monday. That was cool and I'll miss it. Keep up the good work and on to the next project. :) |
| Sad to hear that you wont any longer work on your blog. I have to tell you that I started visiting your site about a year ago after I entered the excel world and bought 2 of your books (btw is of the best out there). I pretty much can say that I checked your blog daily and benefit from it many times. Thank you for your blog and thank you for your books. I'll still be visiting your excel page is also excellent. |
| Just saw your message. Endings are always sad. You did fine work assembling interesting stuff. Best of luck to you. |
| I came across your blog last year during a search for
information on Excel programming. I've been hooked on your daily blog and
shared quite a few links with family and friends. I'm a member of a 150 person golf association in Chicago and every year after labor day we have a big tournament. I created an Excel Workbook for my golf association and your books and website have been a useful resource for the Excel programming. The Workbook handled the tournament player entry, handicaps, tee-times, scoring for Saturday and Sunday, daily standings, final results and payouts. We finished the scoring in record time! The tournament is over and now the lights will go off at J-Walk Blog! On to the next project....maybe a RDBMS system for our golf association's entire season scores... |
| Great blog!, even though, like you say, it was just a collection of cool links. Through it I managed to find Ed Foster's Gripe Log, Idle Type, and most of all Whole Wheat Radio. |
| Ever since I found your Blog back at the start of the year it's been one of my favourite places to visit on the web. Thanks for spending the time over the last few months to compile it - it has always been interesting and varied with some great little comments on the links. It's a real pity you have to stop, but I appreciate you need to keep finding new things to explore. Thanks again for helping to keep the internet fresh and interesting. I look forward to see what you come up with next! |
| Well, I'm really gonna miss it. But I certainly understand. I think I may have to buy a lawnmower. The good thing is that I can spend a few months catching up on it all. It's still a hell of a resource. May the time it frees up be put to a use that really fulfils you.... |
| I am sorry to learn that you have decided to stop writing the J-Walk blog. I have been checking in every day for many months and have really been enjoying it. I am glad there are people like you out there that are willing to put in your time, so that other people like me can benefit from the interesting articles and useful web sites you feature in your blogs. Perhaps you and I have similar interests and opinions? I assume that is why I have found your articles so interesting and relevant. |
| Sad to see the blog go. It seemed like an incredible amount of work on top of everything else you do. Congrats on completing the update of Power Programming. It must have been brutal work given what you had to work with. I was a huge blog fan, my wife was a huge fan and our son was a huge fan. Best of luck. Hope you find something to do with all that free time. We are still hoping to buy you dinner out there sometime soon. |
| On behalf of the staff at Side Salad (sidesalad.blogspot.com), thanks for all the mentions and the great reading. I suspect you'll be back. It's like heroin. I took a week off not too long ago. It was a nice vacation. If not, good luck and be well. |
| Thanks for a very entertaining 11 months, must admit I am very sad to see it end, but there's more out there to find (they have a lot to live up to). Enjoy all that free time you'll have. |
| Just thought I’d drop you a line to say how much I’ve enjoyed reading your posts on a nearly daily basis. Best of luck! |
| J-Walk is one of my favourite sites! I click on it everyday and
I will certainly miss reading it. You consistently found links that led to
further exploration for me. And you always delivered a laugh or three. I wish
you well in whatever you do outside of this blog but I hope you'll return to
entertain and enlighten me again some day. Cheers and best wishes from one of
your Canadian fans.
p.s. I also admire your photography. |
| I discovered your site only about a month ago and have enjoyed it. I'm sorry to see you go, but I understand. I never figured out how anyone could justify all the time required to run a site such as yours. Keep the e-mail addresses of those who write you so that you can let us know if you start another site of interest, as I'm sure it would be worth checking out. |
| Pick a beginning:
1. Dear John, I dont know why I am writing a Dear John Letter, you are the
one that is leaving.... Pick a Middle: 1. What about our Anniversary Plans.... See the Friday, 22 August, 2003
J-Walk Blog Entry Pick an End: 1. If you ever decide to return, my homepage will be waiting... Does this mean we will never see each other even more than we never see each other? Or can we still be friends? |
| Wow, John. I'm sad. I feel I should have written before to tell you how much I like your blog. Thoughtful grown men shouldn't be mowing lawns! I'm 32 and live in State College, PA. I found your site through a link at Geisha Asobi Blog. Please leave it up for a while so I can go through your archives. I hope you enjoy your retirement now, may the grass in your yard stay short. |
| I'm one of the 1300 you mention that checks out your blog semi-daily. I'll be sad to see it end. I wanted to thank you for your contribution to my experience on the internet. You've brought my attention to quite a few interesting and amusing sites and for that I am grateful. Regarding the statement about renewing your faith in the Internet, the feeling out here is mutual. I wish you well on whatever you move on to next. |
| I was busy working (really!) and had to go on the internet. I opened my browser and caught a glimpse of my home-page (the J-Walk WeBlog of course) and felt a familiar thrill: "Oh, a Zebra's butt with a sign on it... A new entry has arrived! I'll save that moment of pleasure for later, just as soon as I get this chore done..." I happily completed my task at hand, letting the anticipation build, waiting to savor the moment of a new blog entry......... Liittle did I know what sadness awaited me.... |
| Dammit man, you can't quit now! Oh well, I am sure it was time consuming, and while we enjoyed it while it lasted, I can understand that one must make a living. Thanks for the links. Say!!!!!!!!!!!! Since you are already a writer, why not do a Blogging book. If you can sell Excel, then surely you can sell Blogging. I'd buy one in a heartbeat. (if its been done, let me know so I can get one). |
| Too bad you're calling it quits. Your blog was excellent. Now I'm going to have to find articles like "The RIAA sees the face of evil, and it's a 12-year-old girl" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32731.html) on my own. So long, and thanks for all the fish. |
| I am ruined. Here in my office I was known as the guy who always passed on cool information to others in the office. Of course, all the info was from your daily blog. Too bad that you have decided to stop the blog but best of luck in the future. |
| Thanks for the ride! I have enjoyed your blog very much and have faithfully checked in about every day. I was saddened to see that you are giving it up. It and you will be missed! I thought yours was one of the best! If you haven't been there check out Baghdad Burning, a blog from a girl that calls herself Riverbend. I would send a link, but I thought you might not accept links and I'm sure you can find it if you look. |
| Bummer. Thanks for the fun while it lasted. Good luck... |
| Just to say I enjoyed your Blog over the past 11 months -- it was one of the links on my personal custom home page, and along the way a couple of new links have appeared there courtesy of your Blog; Whole-Wheat Radio and EMusic. Your Blog's clear layout, lack of unnecessary technical frippery and useful editorials could be a lesson for many a website out there. Sad to see it go, but will no doubt, keep your Excel page as one of my links as I battle to keep on top of my company's Excel and VBA requirements. Cheers and all the best. |
| You should never have mowed the lawn!!!! I for one will definitely miss your blog (it's really the only one of all of them that interests me). Really sorry that you're calling it quits. Hope that someday you'll reconsider. If not, many thanks for all of the interesting things I've learned here. |
| I’m one of your most loyal visitors to the J-Walk blog. I am
really sad to read your post. I live here in the Philippines and I work nights.
The first thing I do after I get home is to open Mozilla, click on the Usual
Sites Tab I set up. Your page is the first. It’s been routine for me for a long
time now. You even visited my site (http://jobert.blogspot.com) once (according
to sitemeter). Anyway, I would like to thank you for those early mornings when I feel so
down from work and the thing that makes me smile are your posts. I even linked
some of them on my posts. So, from the Philippines, thank you very much for the
smiles, the laughs and the good times.
P.S: I will still have your site on my blog (I even have the RSS feed of it for Newsdesk) and here’s praying that once in awhile you visit and leave a message or two. |
| Wow, am I ever disappointed at today's news. I am fairly new to the world of internet surfing and had found it to be largely frustrating. I even resorted to doing Google searches along the line of . Anything interesting or Anything Funny. Mostly I got neither. Since first arriving at your site, I have returned each day to see what links you find of interest and your links resulted in other links.. and on. Finally I had surfing satisfaction, my lunch hour was not long enough. I have even gone so far as to drone on to friends and family about your site. |
| Thank you very much for an entertaining ride over the last 11 months. Far more work seemed to have gone into your Blog than into any other that I've read and I will miss my daily dose intensely. I always felt that you gave readers an 'edited highlights' tour of the web including so many curates eggs and other peculiarities that it really was a unique and intoxicating mixture. I don't know where you found the time. At least now I'll be able to get some work done rather than following up all of your links for hours on end! Thanks once again, mate - I'll miss you and, by the way, thanks for the Excel books too. Enjoy your life - I've enjoyed sharing a small part of it for a while. |
| You really surprised me today when I visited J-Walk Blog. You're also the reason why I'm feeling a bit sad right now. J-Walk Blog is one of my favourite weblogs, I've said that in the past and I'm still saying it now. I didn't even realize you have been doing this for only 11 months. It feels like J-Walk Blog has been around much longer. That's why I'm really going to miss you. But I do respect your decision and wish you all the best in your future enterprises. |
| Wow, sorry to see it end, but given how much content you produced over the past year, it certainly was an amazing run. I had a WinXP blowout two days ago and since things were slowing down, I did a Fdisk and reformat, but had only saved an old copy of my favorites. Thanks to keeping the site up, I'll be able to walk back through the archives and recreate most of my "cool site" links. As always, good luck in all your ventures John! |
| Well done! I've enjoyed your blog immensely and will have to start from the beginning. Have a good break. |
| Thanks for the many, many hours of enjoyment. I'm saddened to see you close down, but I couldn't imagine how you found the time and energy to keep it all afloat. Good luck to you and your loved ones. |
| You're retiring, Paul (drivemeinsane.com)
Mathis is in relationship/bandwidth purgatory, Slashdot is in a DMCA/RIAA/SCO/beowulf
cluster feedback loop...I may have to get back to work. Seriously, I am one of
your 1300 daily visitors and usually have "found interesting." Most of the waves
I've surfed in the last 6 months started at J-Walk blog.
Thanks also for the Excel tips (this was how I discovered J-Walk and the answer was spot on), and for the books--I own (license?) and dogear two of them. At least put something up when you get that Sony F828 (not that it would matter--I think my mind is made. |
| I only discovered your blog a month ago and have enjoyed reading it daily since then. Thanks for keeping me entertained! |
| Bummer! But I've enjoyed the months I've been reading you. |
| noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Dang it. No more J-Walk blog?!
No No No. Your blog was one of THE best things on the web. I was always amazed
at your the amount / quality of your finds. J-Walk is a quality site - the web
needs more J-Walks, not less. Dang. Ugh. Dang.
So, did you see the audio tape deck you can hook up to your computer? http://www.plusdeck.com/english/ Neat, eh? Well, hoping that this is some sort of nutty hoax or that you were hacked or hijacked or a troop of monkeys is holding you hostage. |
| Thanks for an entertaining and often useful blog. I enjoyed reading it while it was there. The pointers you gave in your farewell address will provide the the intellectual methadone necessary to handle the J-Walk withdrawal. |
| please don't stop. u're just too good to stop. i need you |
| Gosh, I've only just learned to J-Walk (coupla months ago) and do it every day (really) and send links I find on it to all my friends and talk about it constantly and appreciate it deeply and now you fold! Please reconsider! The world is too weird! We need your valuable news service! Turn that zebra around and dig in your spurs! |
| I am one of the daily hits at jwalkblog. Somewhere I found your weblog and I have I gone there every day .... sometimes twice .... for several months now. I have spent a lot of enjoyable time following your links. Boy, will I ever miss you. If you ever decide to do it again, I for one will love having you back. |
| I sure enjoyed your blog while it was up and running, John. It was a jumping-off place to the 'net for me, too...Anyway, thanks for the blog while it lasted...exactly the right amount of information and with a tinge of rebellion! |
| Well I am sad to see you are closing your blog it was part of my daily news cycle. I am glad to see that you are shutting down your blog on a high point. As one sage said “its better to go out with a bang then to fade away”. Well I am glad that your blog did not fade away it would loose the J-walk mystique that your blog had developed over the year. Well I am just writing this to complement you on such a quality production. Thank you. |
| Sorry to see you stop John. It was my favorite blog. If nothing else, you got me hooked on CDBaby. :-) Thanks for your work this past year on it. |
| Thanks for a very interesting, sometime amusing, always well presented interlude. Better remove it from my bookmark list |
| First the reverse cowgirl and now j-walk are gone. at least you were thoughtful enough to say goodbye. ;-) |
| well I'm gonna miss it, Haven't missed a day since I discovered it. Maybe I was a day or two late sometimes. .not too much not too little I felt it was just right. thanks John |
| Come back, please??! Damn. You ruined my day. |
| What a shame. There are so many crappy web sites out there. Why can't they shut down? I sure hope you reconsider your decision. You have a lot of fans out there dude! |
| Now I am really depressed. Your blog had
become the first thing I would check on every day, several times a day as a
matter of fact for the last half a year. I was shocked to see that you are
ending it today. I can imagine how much time it took you to update every day as
I have a website I update once a month and it is a time sink at that.
I wanted to thank you for exposing me to so much neat stuff on the internet. Through your blog I found pages I couldn't possibly have found on my own. Whole Wheat Radio, Slime mold photos, Quicktime VR panoramas, Interesting experiments at MIT and the list goes on. At least you will be keeping the site on line so I will be able to go back to my favorites and some of the months I missed. You made an impact on all those visitors I am sure. Thanks again and best wishes |
| Just wanted to say thanks for running a great site...its gonna be missed. Seriously, it was a fun read day after day. Sorry to see you ending it. |
| Bummer – I’ve only been a j-walk reader for a few weeks. But you did turn me on to WWR. Thanks for the entertainment – besides, 10 months of archives will be new to me! |
| Boing Boing is way over-rated, John. It may get 10 times as many people, but yours is (was) 10 times better. Good luck to you, man. |
| So sorry to hear the news. Yours is the only site I go to every day. I'll really miss it. Any chance of changing your mind? |
| I have only recently discovered your blog, and it's my favorite
of all! The only one I really read, start to finish. Your sense of the weird,
whacky, interesting and amazing so closely parallels mine, that I was thrilled
enough to read about six months worth of blogs in one sitting (with a darned
regular amount of linking off to the sites you cited, several stretch breaks,
and very strained eyes!). I have shown it to many people as a beautiful example
of what a blog should and could be in it's purest sense. I'm unbelievably
disappointed that you will end it!
Yet, I do understand...I did a web site for several years that I tried to add a lot of quality content to and created something of a following. One day in 1999 I had had enough, so I just stopped. I still get mails and questions and comments and request for links to it (you wonder if some people read the dates...it clearly says "hasn't been updated since January, 1999"!) Anyway, your blog was responsible for reigniting my interest and enthusiasm for the whacky side of the web. I've been so mired down in business strategy and technology development and other such sadist pursuits, that I had neglected my "wonder" side...the part that has always loved magic and fairy tales and being amazed and awed by things I've never seen before. I used to hunt diligently for all the sites like that myself on the web, but you outdid me in spades...and I for one am grateful to you. I hope you won't take the blog down any time soon. I do plan to go back and read them all. It will just take me a while to do it. Thanks so much for exerting the effort it took. I hope you will take up blogging again. Yours was a quality blog. There are only about 12 of those. :) Really! :) It will be missed. |
| A sad day for me, but, as Voltaire wrote: 'Cela est bien dit, répondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin. Happy gardening. |
| I read with great disappointment your announcement. This will
mean that I will have to actually start work at 9.00 rather than delaying all my
appointments until 10.00 With the miserable English autumn/winter weather just
starting, the days are going to be long; so selfishly, I wish you would
reconsider.
Don't kid yourself when you said you didn't say anything profound, because I learned a lot and most importantly laughed a lot, and making people laugh is not a small thing. Thanks for the 11 months. |
| I don't believe it ! I just read the news
that I won't be jwalking anymore.... I used to find the internet very boring and
I couldn't find anything much entertaining, until one day my boyfriend came
across your link after buying an excel book from you (very very good book i must
say - i've become the excel girl in the office, everybody wonders how i get to
know so much stuff about excel). Your blog was very entertaining, thank
you so much - but you're basically telling me to switch to boing-boing, but it
just does not do it for me - yours was so much better. I'll check out on the
other links you're giving us.
Ce n'est qu'un au revoir... I hope |
| I'll miss your blog. I discovered it just a few weeks after it had started, and it's been the first web page I visited every day since. I understand it was a big amount of daily work, and I always thought that updating the blog was an expression of passion and generosity on your part. So thanks for your time, and hope to read you again some day somewhere. |
| To bad you quit the blog...a bummer. It was a daily read 4 me. Hope you'll ever start again because this is/was "THE BLOG NUMBER ONE". This blog showed me there are still cool independent people in Bushes America. Like 2 thank ya 4 all the cool links (many of them where usefull on my own site - yes I'm a thief 2) :-) Will be visiting still many times here because youre excell-section is great 2! |
| dear that beardy guy on the j-walk page
i saw that zebra's ass this morning and was overcome with a sadness than i never thought a web page could evoke. for me, and i'm sure plenty others, j-walk was a place i could kick back for a while and geek out, be humoured, amazed or just plain tickled. i can't believe it's only been up less than a year - it kinda felt like the internet was serving you, rather than you serving the internet to us. and the web was certainly a better place for it. so i just wanted to say goodbye properly, for all the cheery hi's and good morning's you've given me. i'll be wearing a black armband during this period of mourning and hope to see you out there again at some point. all the best with the photography, the music, the software and now you're done with those books, i hope you can find somewhere to kick back to too. |
| Gutted. The death of your blog will be like losing a friend. The whole Internet will never be the same (or as good) again. |
| I am sorry to see your blog end. Yes, I wish there was a way to change your mind--yeah, its that good. But, hey, you gotta enjoy doing it. |
| Just saw that you are stopping J-walk. I wanted you to know that, in fact, you were my favorite blog. I always checked you before I looked at anyone else. Also... I wondered how you did it everyday! So.. have a rest.. It was great and I really liked what you did. Thanks and good luck in whatever else comes your way! |
| Just wanted to say how much I will miss your blog. I check it frequently during the day and always enjoy the information you have gathered and your comments. My day will definitely not be quite as bright without your input. I can imagine it took quite a bit of work to do what you have done. I even thought that if i had any use for excel i would buy your book. |
| I want to say thank you for the effort you have put into your blog. The links are diverse, the breadth enormous and daily there has been a new adventure while taking a breather at the office (or at home for that matter). |
| Thank you for doing J-Walk Blog! It has been my daily read and I have shared many of the awesome links with my friends, spreading fun and excitement to many people, all because of your blog. I will miss it a lot! |