Asymptomatic

Nothing has ever made me want to put a razor to my throat as much as this.

And now back to your regularly scheduled blog.

I have a friend - let’s call him Brian - that doesn’t really see the point of all this blogging business. It’s apparently just a bunch a whining computer users who talk about what they had for breakfast and what they thought about that TV show they watched. Essentially, stuff that nobody cares about.

I’ll grant him that to a certain extent, he’s right. There are a lot of people out there with nothing better to say than “Ate oatmeal. Saw Orlando Bloom on Conan. Squeee.” Every so often I find myself reading one of these sites and wonder what toilet my life has begun to circle. This is not to say that what you’re writing isn’t important to you, just that I need to see some credentials before I think what you say has any importance to me whatsoever. Which brings me to my point…

Slacker Astronomy is a badass astronomy podcast.

Have you noticed that people on the net have been really testy lately?

Everyone seems angry for no good reason. Look at this WordPress/Google thing, for one. Does it really affect any of these people who are running to decry/defend WordPress? PageRank is a synthetic concoction that begs to be manipulated, just like email begs to be spammed. If you use WordPress’ PageRank for gain (regardless of the nobility of the outcome) and then you are caught, then you pay the pay the price of not having those pages listed in Google. Big whoop. My thought - Who cares?