Archive for May, 2010
Tea > Coffee
May 16th
It’s called cognitive dissonance. When people make choices, they ignore all other evidence that doesn’t support their choice, instead twisting it in their mind illogically to further ‘prove’ their choice. It’s how gamblers rationalize thowing good money after bad, Bush got a second term (that and some irregularity at the polls), and it’s how people continue to drink coffee despite the fact that it tastes like bitter dirt.
What I’m trying to say, I guess, is that I’m a tea drinker. Stay tuned next time for more shocking confessions of the beverage kind.
A place to start…
May 13th
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe…
Carl Sagan
Well, I’m not going quite that far back to basics. But everything needs a place to start. Therefore I offer you this post. Having just started this blog back up it is extremely likely, in fact I’d lay down money on it, that it’ll probably suck. Not only that, but you probably won’t even be reading it, as no one will be able to find the damn thing to start with. But that’s ok. More >
Rescued from the Clutches of Spammers
May 12th
So I restarted this site, put up a single post and then ended up just leaving it for a while (It’s such a pain to have to actually make a living, you know).
While I was looking the other way, my single post turned out to be really, really popular–with spammers from Russia. I finally came back around the other day and found that the one worthless post I’d put on here about restarting the site had 84 comments from spammers.
What I realized when I looked into it, was that when I’d installed wordpress and set up this site, I’d forgotten to activate Akismet, the blogger’s best friend and anti-spam comment plugin. Well, I went to wordpress.com, got my api key, and activated Akismet. I then deleted all of the spam comments and just for good measure I’ve deleted the post as well, since now Google’s going to think that page is spam. I’ll add a new, new introductory post to take its place.
Hopefully this burst of activity on this blog won’t completely sap my creative ambition for the next couple of months.