Gism Butter
Thu, 05 Aug 2004
There's a few things rumbling around in the old head today, and they're likely going to come out here in this very rant.
There's a few small truths I've discovered about blogging and web design by looking at the stats and so forth from my lovely, and very likely rooted, web server. Leif set it up for me, and I'm sure he dreads coming over to my house because I am perpetually asking him to do this or that with it. Really, I should learn to do all this shit myself, but sometimes, it's just easier to ask him because he always knows.
One of these little truths is that people usually don't enjoy lots of links being thrown at them. I often wonder if domain squatters actually get any clickthrough. They offer up every possible link to commercial sites that they can find, in the hopes of being paid $.01 a click... and clog up DNS with their worthless sites.
Another truth I've found is that you draw more flies with vinegar than with honey. No one wants to read sob stories online. They would much rather read something that either makes them angry or pisses them off. Case in point: I get no comments or remarks reguarding this blog unless I personally insult someone in it. I am beginning to wonder if I should simply slander every imaginable person in the blogosphere in the hopes of them coming here and reading my shlock.
Truth in the third is that people like pretty pictures. As do I. Esspecially when those pictures are of baby animals.
Another, final, truth is that the Linux community, while rabid and fanatical, should not be allowed out of its collective house without a good washing up first. I went to LinuxWorld today, and there were some exceptionally foul odors to enjoy there. Also, there were not enough free things. And not enough CD's of actual Linux distros. That pissed me off to no end. I wander around for almost three hours, and all I have to show for it is a copy of Fedora Core 2 and a Mandrake 10 CD. I know, I know, Debian and Gentoo are Internet distributions. But I still want them on disc, just in case. Oh, and there were a lot of machines playing Quake III, which made me weap for the state of gaming on Linux. Oh, Wine, when shall though save us?
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