Well, I just opened up wp-admin after a long time, and I noticed something quite nice. The post count was 99. It’s 4 in the morning and I’ve been studying probability for the past six hours, so I can say that this is most probably my 100th post. I honestly feel rather funny about the 100th post. It’s a nice number. And I realized that I hadn’t reached some of the goals I’d set out to achieve when I started out. For starters, my Google PageRank, (which is more or less penis size for websites) remains at a paltry zero.
While I see so many other sites who make money by blogging about the latest technology. On closer examination, I noticed that a lot of them hardly had any original content. I honestly don’t want to offend anyone who might read this. I respect the efforts and troubles that go into everything and nobody can attain anything by being lazy. But there are so many sites with hundreds of ads, a small paltry piece of text about a new product launch or new service. All which end with [via <Link>] and that link would have some other [Via <some other link>]. I had half a mind to do the same sometime back. I really want to make a little extra income for kicks and have people hear what I have to say, which is why I started writing stuff in the first place.
Watching tagclouds filled with web2.0, social networking and the usual crap. I had a sudden realization: this was just another industry. A rat race where you have to be the first to write and increase your readership, your day is mostly used to optimize your theme and add ads and use the latest services to enhance your systems. All to make your presence felt on the internet. I don’t have that kind of time or patience, as I realized later on.More importantly, I hate being tagged as someone who uses computers a lot for some reason, despite being a self proclaimed computer genius. I have nicer things to do, like hang around with friends, read books, read comics, pick up an instrument, and go to classes.
I decided to make a point by writing posts with zero links. And with original content like linux tutorials, tech articles, howtos, etc. But though google is my friend, googlebot isn’t; though if you search for “Iron Maiden Bangalore” my post comes right up at top. I will continue to write articles. But not in the blog in a separate section and they will be lengthy and easy to read with no clutter or hundreds of hyperlinks.
Coming to things I hate. I hate ALL web2.0 startups who try to thrive on “connecting” people together, etc. We are connected enough already. No, I don’t want you to profile my browsing habits or expose my privacy so I can show it off to the world. I don’t need any “innovative new service” nor does anyone else. So gimme your colorful and pretty css and be on your way.
I hate digg and I absolutely LOATHE apple for reasons I might mention later. I also hate all digg and apple fanboys. Apple making good but disturbingly overpriced and powerless software meant for the run of the mill idiot, and digg containing a zillion articles about the Nintendo wii and “Cool photo of <something>”
What I will be doing after today: I will be updating regularly. I want to write articles filled with bittersweet sarcasm and humor. I also want to publish my various song and movie parodies that I’ve been making for a while. Gosh I’m talented, and still single [hint hint]. Also I’ll be releasing ComPress [Short for ComicPress, a wordplay on wordpress] a rather nice set of php scripts to run a webcomic. And last but most certainly not the least, I’ll be starting DBC (Death by Cliché for the uninitiated). I already have a few ideas, and they’re looking rather nice.
Has it taken 100 posts for me to realize what I want to do? No. Have I realized what I must do? Maybe. Should you keep checking back for updates? Definitely. Though I’m a lazy digg-web2.0-techblog-apple-hating supersarcastic soab, I do love visitors… And comments!Comments are nice.
“A tout le monde
A tout les amis
Je vous aime
Je dois partir”
-Megadeth
Current music: Megadeth, "A Tout Le Monde"
I used to blog before dusty-ant. It was mostly senseless day-to-day stuff interspersed with some weird and sometimes funny stories. It worked. My page rank was at 5. One day I decided to stop. Don’t know why. And I deleted my blog.
Now I’m back at page-rank 0. But I’m not worrying about it. I’ll just write good content and software. If it works out, yay! Else, back to the drawing board. Writing software, I’m picking up more skills to do what I plan to do for the rest of my life.
I feel you should write good content too. And if you make things like the php web-comic thing, you will have learnt from that project and you will be able to apply parts of it in the future if you plan to work in software engineering.
I dont particularly enjoy sarcasm, but I do like funny. Keep it short. Keep it funny. And if you can draw cartoons (or use a cartooning tool) then do that. I’d love to read your comic-strips.
@pravin, thanks for the thumbs up, you won’t be disappointed I assure you. It will be funny(I hope) and short. But It’s more an underlined attempt to improve my sense of humour. I have a rather odd issue that I think of a joke a little after the situation to crack it is over and I end up laughing erratically for no reason. But the php’s gonna be a certain thing.
Wow,I came back to your blog after a long time…Pardon me,I do remember when I said i will be lookin at your blog regularly but there were no posts!!! But now, the blog is so cool again and since u promise to update it regularly , i will be looking into it.Me Promiseth
digg!Dig a hole for it…yo,it suckz
And, “Gosh I’m talented, and still single [hint hint]. “