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That *exactly* what I mean. I mean who gives a shit if fido, your cat, came down with a bad case of worms and crapped on your apartment walls? Really, haven't you *anything* more interesting to do that sit down in front of a computer and write about this shit??? And yet, like Chris points out, that's exactly what I'm doing! Rants within rants within rants...* *20 bonus points to whomever can tell me where that is borrowed from. Hint, replace "rant" with "wheel". ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
Apparently the person who wrote the blog does. What anyone else thinks or feels is up to them. Just like anything else, it gives people the comforting illusion that their voice is heard. Irony on the Rocks with a Twist (my blog) Still coaxing software out of the can after all these years...
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pnjoyce wrote: But without blogs, how would I know what clever things people's cats did? Step 1. ( If necassary ) Get A Girlfriend Step 2. Buy her a cat. problem solved. pseudonym67 My Articles[^] "They say there are strangers who threaten us, In our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness too dangerous In our theaters and bookstore shelves. That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves." Rush
NO I WILL NOT HAVE CATS IN THE HOUSE AGAIN! EVER! FOR WHAT EVER REASON! My ex-girlfriend wanted cats, she scowered the internet for kittens. "They must be kittens" she said. "Alright, if that's what you want" I said. She phones up a couple who have posted an advert on an internet board somewhere - I don't know where she got this information. But she found the kitten she wanted and the owner was wanting to put it up for adoption (or what ever people do with unwanted kittens). So I ask where we have to go to get this kitten. (And before I answer this bear in mind that I live in Scotland - yes, your thought process is working ahead, I didn't mention where in Scotland, so the answer can't be in Scotland can it? Oh... NOooooooo....) We have to go to bloody Washington to get this kitten. And... Wait for it... While we are there she notices that the Mother has had other kittens, and well it would be a shame to split one sibling from another, so we take two kittens instead. Cats cost money. If you want to find out about them I suggest reading someone's blog - It's a damn site cheaper! * End of rant * Rant Epilogue: [When we split up I was left wondering how I had gone from being financially secure with about £7K in savings and £8K in stocks and shares (which isn't bad for someone who was 26 at the time) to having £25K in debt (not including the mortgage on my house). Looking back I can see where a lot of it went - lots of totally unfocused spending]
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I don't get it. Nothing new here, as there are a lot of things I don't get, but today I'm just not getting "blogging". I am just sick and fucking tired of everyone referring to their blog, blog this, blog that, for God's sake, just shut the fuck up, and do something productive, go join the Peace Corps or something. Even the name sounds stupid: "blog". What the fuck is a "blog"? Yes I am aware it's a shortening of web log, but still, is there no better name for spending ridiculous amounts of time in front of a monitor, navel gazing and typing insipid little thoughts that, in the final analysis, nobody gives a shit about anyways? How about Pointless Whining, or Poing! Maybe Endless Carping, as in writing in my endarp. There's always Useless Thoughts, ushots maybe? I guess the what most boggles my mind is the enormous amount of wasted energy that goes into them. I can think of so many things that annoy me, or that I'd like to comment on, or bitch about. And then I realize that I actually have things that I'd like to accomplish, all of which require far more time and energy, and which ultimately precludes me wasting time on a stupid "blog". Apparently Bill Gates doesn't share this opinion[^] Well thank god for that, I know I can't wait to read his Billness' wonderous and no doubt witty thoughts on things such as why he's such a dork, or why, as the worlds wealthiest individual of all time, he can't seem to get a decent haircut. Well thanks for reading, and have a nice day. Oh, and by the way, if you vote this a one, then fuck you very much :). ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
I think the reaction to weblogs is an equal and opposite reaction to the big business BS that is spewed from major news channels. Big business owns the news channels so they suppress certain types of news that for one reason or another are bad for big business. Little business then passes it on and gets the scoops. ----------------------------- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Jim Crafton wrote: who gives a sh*t if fido ate your cat and you came down with a bad case of worms and crapped on your apartment walls? * gotta stop reading when I'm tired... *
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Heh, for a second I stopped and thought, "Hey, did I really write that? - That's kinda funny!" ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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Glad you aren't afraid to express your opinion. Like it or not, blogs are an important part of the evolving Web culture. What else can be said about them? Still coaxing software out of the can after all these years...
Bullshit! If "Web culture" (whatever the hell that means) is simply a bunch of goobers sitting around navel gazing and talking about their cats, then what an utter waste! I'd hazard a guess that most (75, 80, 90 percent) of the "blogs" out there are just mindless drivel. But that's just my opinion :) And thanks to the freedom in how the net was set up, people are free to write about their mindless drivel as much as they'd like! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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Jim Crafton wrote: I guess the what most boggles my mind is the enormous amount of wasted energy that goes into them. I can think of so many things that annoy me, or that I'd like to comment on, or bitch about. And then I realize that I actually have things that I'd like to accomplish, all of which require far more time and energy, and which ultimately precludes me wasting time on a stupid "blog". yet here you are bitching on a message board about people who write about things that annoy them on message boards. two thumbs up. Software | Cleek
But he's bitching with company, not bitching and just spewing it out to the ether. I feel there's a difference. cheers, Chris Maunder Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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Bullshit! If "Web culture" (whatever the hell that means) is simply a bunch of goobers sitting around navel gazing and talking about their cats, then what an utter waste! I'd hazard a guess that most (75, 80, 90 percent) of the "blogs" out there are just mindless drivel. But that's just my opinion :) And thanks to the freedom in how the net was set up, people are free to write about their mindless drivel as much as they'd like! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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Bullshit! If "Web culture" (whatever the hell that means) is simply a bunch of goobers sitting around navel gazing and talking about their cats, then what an utter waste! I'd hazard a guess that most (75, 80, 90 percent) of the "blogs" out there are just mindless drivel. But that's just my opinion :) And thanks to the freedom in how the net was set up, people are free to write about their mindless drivel as much as they'd like! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
Which is why nobody is pointing a gun at your head making you read them. That does not invalidate the purpose for having blogs. Still coaxing software out of the can after all these years...
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Yes as a matter of fact I do: 1) Bashing Dubya 2) Finding obtuse links between the End of The World, Satan, and Apple Computer Inc. 3) Publishing the truth on Area 51 and the clearly advanced reverse-engineering of Alien (Grays) technology being done, in obvious preparation for the coming battle between Satan and the Forces of Darkness. 3) And finally, the *original* purpose of the web: free porn! Seriously I am just venting and being pissed off in general, don't take it personally :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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But he's bitching with company, not bitching and just spewing it out to the ether. I feel there's a difference. cheers, Chris Maunder Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
spewing it out to the ether That's a great phrase ! "What an ether spewer that dork was!" ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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I don't get it. Nothing new here, as there are a lot of things I don't get, but today I'm just not getting "blogging". I am just sick and fucking tired of everyone referring to their blog, blog this, blog that, for God's sake, just shut the fuck up, and do something productive, go join the Peace Corps or something. Even the name sounds stupid: "blog". What the fuck is a "blog"? Yes I am aware it's a shortening of web log, but still, is there no better name for spending ridiculous amounts of time in front of a monitor, navel gazing and typing insipid little thoughts that, in the final analysis, nobody gives a shit about anyways? How about Pointless Whining, or Poing! Maybe Endless Carping, as in writing in my endarp. There's always Useless Thoughts, ushots maybe? I guess the what most boggles my mind is the enormous amount of wasted energy that goes into them. I can think of so many things that annoy me, or that I'd like to comment on, or bitch about. And then I realize that I actually have things that I'd like to accomplish, all of which require far more time and energy, and which ultimately precludes me wasting time on a stupid "blog". Apparently Bill Gates doesn't share this opinion[^] Well thank god for that, I know I can't wait to read his Billness' wonderous and no doubt witty thoughts on things such as why he's such a dork, or why, as the worlds wealthiest individual of all time, he can't seem to get a decent haircut. Well thanks for reading, and have a nice day. Oh, and by the way, if you vote this a one, then fuck you very much :). ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
Jim Crafton wrote: Well thanks for reading, and have a nice Subscribed! ;)
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Jim Crafton wrote: Well thanks for reading, and have a nice Subscribed! ;)
Promise only what you can do. And then deliver more than what you promised.
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".Always nice to have fans :) Stay tuned for my next rant on why I think linux still sucks, why GTK blows, followed by a brief diatribe about why John Kerry makes for a suck-ass, boring candidate, and why I think we should have a nationally televised mud wrestling competition between John Ashcroft and Richard Stallman. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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Yes as a matter of fact I do: 1) Bashing Dubya 2) Finding obtuse links between the End of The World, Satan, and Apple Computer Inc. 3) Publishing the truth on Area 51 and the clearly advanced reverse-engineering of Alien (Grays) technology being done, in obvious preparation for the coming battle between Satan and the Forces of Darkness. 3) And finally, the *original* purpose of the web: free porn! Seriously I am just venting and being pissed off in general, don't take it personally :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
All good uses of the web IMHO: Regardz Colin J Davies
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I don't get it. Nothing new here, as there are a lot of things I don't get, but today I'm just not getting "blogging". I am just sick and fucking tired of everyone referring to their blog, blog this, blog that, for God's sake, just shut the fuck up, and do something productive, go join the Peace Corps or something. Even the name sounds stupid: "blog". What the fuck is a "blog"? Yes I am aware it's a shortening of web log, but still, is there no better name for spending ridiculous amounts of time in front of a monitor, navel gazing and typing insipid little thoughts that, in the final analysis, nobody gives a shit about anyways? How about Pointless Whining, or Poing! Maybe Endless Carping, as in writing in my endarp. There's always Useless Thoughts, ushots maybe? I guess the what most boggles my mind is the enormous amount of wasted energy that goes into them. I can think of so many things that annoy me, or that I'd like to comment on, or bitch about. And then I realize that I actually have things that I'd like to accomplish, all of which require far more time and energy, and which ultimately precludes me wasting time on a stupid "blog". Apparently Bill Gates doesn't share this opinion[^] Well thank god for that, I know I can't wait to read his Billness' wonderous and no doubt witty thoughts on things such as why he's such a dork, or why, as the worlds wealthiest individual of all time, he can't seem to get a decent haircut. Well thanks for reading, and have a nice day. Oh, and by the way, if you vote this a one, then fuck you very much :). ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
I'd like to answer this question when I get time. Cheers Regardz Colin J Davies
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I don't get it. Nothing new here, as there are a lot of things I don't get, but today I'm just not getting "blogging". I am just sick and fucking tired of everyone referring to their blog, blog this, blog that, for God's sake, just shut the fuck up, and do something productive, go join the Peace Corps or something. Even the name sounds stupid: "blog". What the fuck is a "blog"? Yes I am aware it's a shortening of web log, but still, is there no better name for spending ridiculous amounts of time in front of a monitor, navel gazing and typing insipid little thoughts that, in the final analysis, nobody gives a shit about anyways? How about Pointless Whining, or Poing! Maybe Endless Carping, as in writing in my endarp. There's always Useless Thoughts, ushots maybe? I guess the what most boggles my mind is the enormous amount of wasted energy that goes into them. I can think of so many things that annoy me, or that I'd like to comment on, or bitch about. And then I realize that I actually have things that I'd like to accomplish, all of which require far more time and energy, and which ultimately precludes me wasting time on a stupid "blog". Apparently Bill Gates doesn't share this opinion[^] Well thank god for that, I know I can't wait to read his Billness' wonderous and no doubt witty thoughts on things such as why he's such a dork, or why, as the worlds wealthiest individual of all time, he can't seem to get a decent haircut. Well thanks for reading, and have a nice day. Oh, and by the way, if you vote this a one, then fuck you very much :). ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
I think it gives people an outlet for their inner artist. How many blogs can you find by successful Painters or Architects. Not too many I bet. They live as artists and therefore do not need an outlet. Most people have some artist in them but live mostly un-artistic lives. So really it’s about the artist in everyone. Which is why I don’t have a blog… I have no artistic abilities. ;P
"No matter where you go, there your are." - Buckaroo Banzai
-pete
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Always nice to have fans :) Stay tuned for my next rant on why I think linux still sucks, why GTK blows, followed by a brief diatribe about why John Kerry makes for a suck-ass, boring candidate, and why I think we should have a nationally televised mud wrestling competition between John Ashcroft and Richard Stallman. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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I think it gives people an outlet for their inner artist. How many blogs can you find by successful Painters or Architects. Not too many I bet. They live as artists and therefore do not need an outlet. Most people have some artist in them but live mostly un-artistic lives. So really it’s about the artist in everyone. Which is why I don’t have a blog… I have no artistic abilities. ;P
"No matter where you go, there your are." - Buckaroo Banzai
-pete
palbano wrote: I think it gives people an outlet for their inner artist. I see the logic in that arguement. Thanks ! :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
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Jim Crafton wrote: Stay tuned for my next rant on ... If you want us to "stay tuned" you better start a f**king BLOG :laugh::laugh::laugh:
"No matter where you go, there your are." - Buckaroo Banzai
-pete
OMG! Nooooo!! :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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I don't get it. Nothing new here, as there are a lot of things I don't get, but today I'm just not getting "blogging". I am just sick and fucking tired of everyone referring to their blog, blog this, blog that, for God's sake, just shut the fuck up, and do something productive, go join the Peace Corps or something. Even the name sounds stupid: "blog". What the fuck is a "blog"? Yes I am aware it's a shortening of web log, but still, is there no better name for spending ridiculous amounts of time in front of a monitor, navel gazing and typing insipid little thoughts that, in the final analysis, nobody gives a shit about anyways? How about Pointless Whining, or Poing! Maybe Endless Carping, as in writing in my endarp. There's always Useless Thoughts, ushots maybe? I guess the what most boggles my mind is the enormous amount of wasted energy that goes into them. I can think of so many things that annoy me, or that I'd like to comment on, or bitch about. And then I realize that I actually have things that I'd like to accomplish, all of which require far more time and energy, and which ultimately precludes me wasting time on a stupid "blog". Apparently Bill Gates doesn't share this opinion[^] Well thank god for that, I know I can't wait to read his Billness' wonderous and no doubt witty thoughts on things such as why he's such a dork, or why, as the worlds wealthiest individual of all time, he can't seem to get a decent haircut. Well thanks for reading, and have a nice day. Oh, and by the way, if you vote this a one, then fuck you very much :). ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
5! A agree completely. At least my blog (no, not the CP one, I don't use that one) has some purpose to it. Oh wait, I guess that's what all the other millions of bloggers would say, too! Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog
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NO I WILL NOT HAVE CATS IN THE HOUSE AGAIN! EVER! FOR WHAT EVER REASON! My ex-girlfriend wanted cats, she scowered the internet for kittens. "They must be kittens" she said. "Alright, if that's what you want" I said. She phones up a couple who have posted an advert on an internet board somewhere - I don't know where she got this information. But she found the kitten she wanted and the owner was wanting to put it up for adoption (or what ever people do with unwanted kittens). So I ask where we have to go to get this kitten. (And before I answer this bear in mind that I live in Scotland - yes, your thought process is working ahead, I didn't mention where in Scotland, so the answer can't be in Scotland can it? Oh... NOooooooo....) We have to go to bloody Washington to get this kitten. And... Wait for it... While we are there she notices that the Mother has had other kittens, and well it would be a shame to split one sibling from another, so we take two kittens instead. Cats cost money. If you want to find out about them I suggest reading someone's blog - It's a damn site cheaper! * End of rant * Rant Epilogue: [When we split up I was left wondering how I had gone from being financially secure with about £7K in savings and £8K in stocks and shares (which isn't bad for someone who was 26 at the time) to having £25K in debt (not including the mortgage on my house). Looking back I can see where a lot of it went - lots of totally unfocused spending]
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:laugh: Not a touchy subject at all then? When I first started programming I went through a period where I was getting pay rises so fast that my pay more than doubled within a year and a half. Yet I never seemed to have any more money than I did when I started. Then the girlfriend at the time dumped me and the next thing I knew I was loaded. Still couldn't say where all the money went though. pseudonym67 My Articles[^] "They say there are strangers who threaten us, In our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness too dangerous In our theaters and bookstore shelves. That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves." Rush