200213622
[geek] Puts on geek clothes to do what alot of other bloggers to and comment about IT news in the world …
Interesting news in the IT world over the last 24 hours: Internet rivals unite to fight spam. 29/4/2003. ABC News Online. Yay for people like me who get spammed so much that reading my email is like picking up a magazone full of pr0n advertisements. (sees that her blog will now be looked up by a majority of people looking for p0r|\| sites. Also another bit of interesting news was this internet piracy ruling. A good result when you think that potentially it could affect the development of software which might have perfectly legal uses… yay for the good guys! [/geek]
I’ve had some interesting discussions with a friend recently on how I make friends and then try and keep them away from me. Some things in my life are not perfect, and IRC is a good way for me to escape those problems, like reading. When I am particularly stressed, reading also becomes very important. Friends, I don’t want them getting close to me because they hurt me. I have one friend in particular that I have been good and close with for 3 nearly 4 years. She made a snide comment to me when she was in a bad mood which totally hurt. Nothing has ever been the same since because She used a moment when we were together and I was talking about my relationship problems, inserted her own version there and then used it as a cheap shot in an argument which was had infront of some other people. So I withdrew. [/pooroleme]
Speaking of blog reading. I get alot of lookups from google searches now. More than anything else, I have some people who are regular readers! (waves to sue, dave, & the dude i had the blog fight with) and mostly people who do weird searches using google with nothing else better to do. I don’t think I mind so much. I used to get lots of people coming from aussie blogs, but recently, that hasnt been happening. I should try and find out why. But is it really necessary?
Do I need every man and his dog reading this thing. Probably not. Then its just an exercise in narcissim. Sometimes its nice to kow that people might agree with some of the things I have to say. I don’t always include personal stuff, but yes, there are moments when I do, just through my commenting on other things. I wrote to Aussieblogs tho, since I am no longer getting webtraffic from it and asked them what’s the problem!! I am concerned! I like being able to see who looks me up so then I can find their sites and look them up. I love reading about other people’s ideas, lives and views.
Books I am reading at the moment? Bring on the Bene Gessritt sisters, I am reading the prequels to dune, written by the son of Frank Herbert! I love em. DUNE I say!! give me more sandworms! give me spice!! (always made me think of cinamon for some reason)
enough of my ramble for now…