I can now see why Twitter is so popular! Fewer characters = less chance of making yourself look like an idiot. Your childish and self indulgent musings and observations surrounded by safety in numbers of the equally badly written tweets from a an endless supply of tweeters.

As close to makes no difference to anonymity, you only have a small space to condense your whole personality into a short bio.
Blogging on the other hand, requires concise profound thought.
Short on that at the moment.
My most profound thought today was ‘I wonder if ice cream vending machines exist’.

Yes, they do.
You can now fully focus on blogging.
And how disappointed are you that you had a new comment and it turns out to be me.
Because for some reason, we value strangers’ engagement with our inane ramblings much more than the peoplle who know us.
Quite the contrary – Now I have a view in my stats from Germany. Simplelampoon.com is now ‘world renowned’