Warming Up

Written by Richard Herring
http://richardherring.com/warmingup/

The first attraction of this blog for me is that although it reads like a diary you don't feel like you're prying. It's personal and often zooms in on the mundane everyday stuff but there's a good solid focus to the updates. All of the updates are kept to a reasonable length as the author says he only ever spends half an hour writing it. Considering the quality of the writing I suspect this may be occasionally compromised. Also as it's written by a professional comedian it's likely to tickle your funnybone at least once or twice a week although this isn't the aim of every entry.

The second attraction of this blog is that it has been updated every day without fail since November the 25th 2002. This is a pretty awesome feat which surely deserves some sort of an award? Nontheless, despite this long history the blog is welcoming to new readers and any references to previous entries contain helpful backlinks.

This blog does not use any flashy gimicks such as video feeds or pictures. It deals only in the written word and in my opinion is all the better for it. It also does not allow for comments.

The author, Richard Herring, used to be one half of the comedy double act Lee and Herring who were big news in the UK at one point with their TV shows: Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy. As a consequence I'd guess a reasonable chunk of the readers of this blog are fans of the man through his old TV work.

Having missed out on most of this myself I can attest that this blog is equally enjoyable if you've never heard of him before. There's very few references in it which are exclusive and it's fair to say that I've become a 'fan' of Richard Herring through his blog alone. In my opinion it's one of the best on the 'net and a good place to start if you're keen have a good reliable read in the office during your lunch break.

Go see: http://richardherring.com/warmingup/