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As the dust clears. . .
The stampede of diggers has subsided, the hate mail in my inbox is down to just a few a day, and life online is slowly returning to normality. I'm quite tempted to follow Hari's example and have my site disallowed so it can't be linked to from digg: The average user from there makes the average Slashdotter seem an intellectual giant.
Take comment #115:
this is the sort of article who i will use to 'explain' to a computer illiterate person ... technically, the article is wrong
He's managed to spot that it's an explanation for non-technical people, but still wants to complain about technical inaccuracies. The mind boggles. . .
I've never censored comments on posts before, but I'm tempted to start. There's been several very useful & informative comments, but they're pretty much drowned out by all the dross. I've already had to go through and blank-out the swearing. I'll have to see if there's a way to do a digg/Slashdot-style comment moderation that'll hide but not actually delete the worthless material. We shall see. . .
Ah well. The most amusing thing about the whole matter, to me, is that the only reason I made the post in the first place was I wanted to illustrate what I'd posted earlier about encrypted filesystems, and the ASCII diagram seemed a good way of doing it. But I needed to do some background on filesystems first, and so the post on fragmentation evolved out of it. The article I was intending to post still hasn't actually been written :o)
In other news, I was going to go diving yesterday as part of my scuba club's 50th anniversary. But the weather had other ides, and whipped up 9+ foot waves for our entertainment. So that was that idea put on hold for a while.
Conincidentally, I've been working on a new website for the club: The current one is all Frontpage-generated static HTML, which has its disadvantages. I'm playing with CMS systems instead, in particular Mambo: It's not the friendliest bit of software, especially for someone as limited as I am at PHP and CSS, but it's coming along slowly. Courtesy of extensions, we've even got a calendar in place. Hopefully we'll be able to move it to its own host sometime soon. . .
Lastly, Google's online word processor has finally been released at writely.com - take a look if you've got a minute.
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Some people are way too frustrated in their lives and feel the internet as a great venting zone. I'd personally not allow personal attacks on my own blog. I would gladly accept being labelled a dictator or an enemy of "Free Speech" but I don't feel the need to allow any random stranger to get on my blog for the sole purpose of attacking me.
My simple commenting policy:
1. If I don't like a particular comment for whatever reason I delete it.
There's no reason to have "democracy" on personal blogs. It's your space and you have every right to write without the fear of personal attacks on your own space.
I found it very good reading and give me something to work from so i can extend my knowledge
So for the readers that like you articles keep up the good work
thanks
Richard
See? Digg can be good sometimes (-:
As far as CMS', be careful. A lot have very sloppy dependencies, such as requiring certain directories be using 777 permissions and such. They're often exploited. I've yet to find one I'm satisfied with from a security standpoint, but perhaps I'm being anal-retentive. Cheers.
Once the illiterate unthoughtful diggers have moved onto the next thing, you may find yourself left with a few new readers. Me included :)
But, as has been said, Digg isn't always bad. I follow Hari's comment moderation method - if I see a comment I don't like, I either edit or delete it. Which of the two I do depends on how valuable the rest of the comment's content is ;)
Have fun diving!
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So Friday (last) started out so well, I knew it was going to be an awesome day.
I slept in (ahhh, bliss) and went for a morning walk to mail some....er...mail (because, seriously, what else can you mail? turtles?) and it was sunny and warm and I hadn't had any caffeine yet so I got myself a Slurpee. Nothing says awesome Summer day like a 10 am Coke Slurpee cooling you down in the sun.
But do you know what really tipped the morning into full-blown awesomeness? The two shirtless, amazingly hot guys who jogged past me, sweaty and gorgeous as I walked home. Ahhhhh, sugar, sun, and sexy, my own personal Summer trifecta.
I went over to where C-Dawg was staying and picked her up (so there would be no driving necessary) and we came back to my apartment, poured ourselves a summer-worthy drink and headed out on the town.
We wandered through downtown, people watching and talking and laughing and window shopping and then we headed to one of the local patios and ordered up a pitcher and some appetizers.
And that's when the real fun began.
You see, C-Dawg and I love people watching. And more than that, we love making up little stories about people and trying to guess who they are. We'd soon discovered that Friday would have to be known as "Everyone Looks Familiar Day" because I kept on seeing people that I thought looked familiar but I couldn't tell if they actually were or if I was just imagining it.
We decided that the couple next to us had just boated in on their yacht and that the guys across from us were all discussing their volleyball league's last game.
We also tried to narrow down which men C felt were too young for me and which she deemed "just right." Once we'd narrowed my age-group down to a ten year span she tested me to see if I could actually tell which guys were ok and which were in the "are you crazy, he's way too young" category.
I did not do well at this. (sigh)
As the pitcher got emptied, a table behind us became filled with a bunch of guys. C-Dawg, needing to "get out of the sun" (which we're pretty sure the guys could tell was an obvious ploy for her to be able to stare at the guys instead of having to pretend to look around and can I just say thank goodness for sunglasses and how easy they make it to check out cute guys?) sat next to me and we started to figure out the back story for these guys.
Later, C decided to choose which of the guys she'd set me up with and when she did she very kindly me that I could go out with the nice, sweet, geeky one because I'm a geek too at which point I protested until she promised she was a geek as well and it wasn't a bad thing. (Strangely enough I know what she means.)
At one point, the waiter came over and there'd been this on-going joke between the three of us because servers kept on trying to bring us food we hadn't ordered and I kept on making this dumb joke about it and then when C-Dawg told me the joke was getting old and the waiter laughed, I turned to him and said (and I quote) "Hey, I'm just going to keep saying it because it never be's not funny!"
At which point he suggested that this wasn't our first patio of the evening and I couldn't stop laughing because I couldn't believe I'd said "be's" and how as I'd said it it had TOTALLY been a word.
Ahhh alcohol, what silly things you do to my brain.
We hit up a few more places after that and went for dinner at my favourite place and then watched an awesomely bad movie back at my place. (Hi, I'm Victoria and I'm going to say the word 'place' as many times as possible in one sentence. I are a good writer.)
It was pretty darn awesome and I'm sure there's more I can think of, like how she wet-willied a statue and how she almost convinced me to give nice geek guy my number and how we sat outside the best ice cream place in town and convinced a bunch of other people that yes, they really should go inside and get a cone.
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