Sunday, June 09, 2002

Sabatticals

Blogging on a Sunday morning. Mike Tyson just fell to Lennox Lewis in 8 rounds to end what a lot of people think will be his last chance at the heavyweight title. I personally doubt it will be his last chance, but then again, I just don't care. Tyson is always going to get someone to pay $54.95 for a fight ... even if he didn't show up to box (like tonight), someone will pay it.

I don't have much to say tonight really. It's been a stressful couple of weeks and I've decided that I'm taking a long sabattical from reading Leoville. I know blogs are filled with this sort of stuff and then the person comes back the next day. In my case though, I won't say it unless I'm actually doing it. I was down to reading Laura Burstein's thread anyway and I just can't do it any more. It's pretty much mindless right now. Every day is the same. When it's not the same six posts over and over it's the same people photoshopping themselves into pictues of her and making the thread get even worse and worse. I just have so much going on with work and with other things that frankly, I have better things to do than go through blather.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2002

What About Privacy?

I've pretty much given up on MT blogs. It's like a status symbol or something that I have no clue about. MT blogs are all the same. No one bothers to have any sort of creativity when they create them. They all use the same template and frankly, the only thing you're going to have different from blog to blog is the daily content in the blog itself, what picture they put up to "jazz things up" and what inane MT blog devices they put down the right side of the screen.

The current trend is to set up webcams and screencams. Get this, yes, apparently these people think that they're so important that everyone has to see what they're looking at on their computer screen. It's like some sort of reverse spyware, instead of having a hidden program on their computer capturing every keystroke, these people want to broadcast every keystroke to the web out of some sort of ego trip. "Come see what I'm seeing! I'm cool, I'm hip! I'm so important you need to monitor me every second! Hello? Anyone? Anyone?"

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