New Version of Wordpress.

I've got it. I did get it, 4 days ago. It's tag system is different. I thought I was tagging all my recent posts. I wasn't (Apparently am supposed to click Add, not just fill in the form and hit Publish). I had to re-do 12 posts. 12 posts in 4 days, that's got to be a record for me. Hope I keep it up.

David

PS - I know I've just revealed which version of Wordpress I use, which is a security hole. But maybe I've reverted to an earlier version because I like the old tagging system. Did I? Did I? Hmm?

PPS - Just messed it up again, and had to go back and properly tag this post.

Twitter badge now permanent.

I've been fiddling around with a twitter badge of some sort for this blog. I've gone back and forth for a few reasons. Mostly, I couldn't find any to fit on my page, but I'm taken aback by the fact that a lot of people are adamantly anti-twitter. These people are probably also the assholes that were anti-cell phones five years ago. Instead of realizing they're unable to overcome their hatred of anything new in order to properly determine the usefulness of a new product or service, they continue to bash everything.

Wow, was that defensive or offensive? I CONTINUE:



Another reason I hesitated to install a twitter badge is because I'm on twitter mainly to follow a few people, who know things before I do or are very entertaining. Twitter is a nesting/proving ground for memes. That's why I use it. So true, I mainly post boring daily shit--hey, that's what it's for, but at the very least when I go through a dry spell on this blog people can use it to see I'm still alive.

Hear that people? I'm still alive!!!

And for people who say twitter won't be around in a few years, that may be true. But that's beside the point. How many people use AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) anymore? But millions of people still use instant messaging, be it Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. Same with twitter. Sure, some people may use Facebook's updates, or some generic twitter knock off, and a lot of people are using themes to make their blog more twitter-like. Perhaps someday some new app will de-throne twitter. It's almost certain, I guess. That doesn't discredit the idea--so many people are ripping it off it's already officially a success. Officially.

David

I -heart- Wikipedia

Looking at the previous two posts, they rely very heavily on Wikipedia, maybe even bordering on plagiarism in a few instances. I also quote it in both articles. It occurred to me as I was writing them that they could make this site a bit suspect. I'm sure we're all aware that there are sites out there that get content by copying information from other sites, linking back and forth a lot, all to increase their own search engine rankings. This has even happened to me. Information form one of my older posts got copied and pasted into someone else's 'blog' with a link back to my site.

I'm not too worried about it, but I did give me pause for a second. Really, those posts had to be Wikipedia-heavy, because if it weren't for Wikipedia I wouldn't know shit about alternate calendars or decimal time.

You know how much time I would have to have spent in a library to have gotten the same amount of information? That means, to me anyway, that I wouldn't ever have learned it without Wikipedia. The information doesn't help me live my life in any significantly better way, it's just interesting. As such, it's not worth digging through books for. When it's only a few clicks away though, think of how much more I can learn in much less time.

Thank you Wikipedia, thank you Internet. That's all I have to say.

David