Category Archives: media

gossip

09 Saturday Sep 2006

Posted by in friends, life stuff, media

≈ 21 Comments

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How do you deal with it?

Do you get hurt and angry and seek revenge and/or restitution?

Do you agree with Oscar Wilde who once said, “The only thing worse in the world than being talked about is not being talked about” ?

Or do you just ignore it?

Also, there seems quite a difference between gossip spread amongst a handful of friends or work colleagues and blabbing stuff all over internet forums. I mean, aside from the first being called slander and the second libel 😉

And where does one draw the fine lines between exchanging information, gossiping and rumour-mongering?

prankster Banksy strikes again

03 Sunday Sep 2006

Posted by in art, media

≈ 32 Comments

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This guy Banksy totally cracks me up.

Here is a link to some BBC News articles about his various pranks.

But today I read that he’s tampered with many copies of Paris Hilton’s latest CD … which made me go – WTF? How on earth can this woman be parodied? How can you parody someone who is already a total parody of herself and all she pathetically represents? And then by turning herself into a singing joke of her own free will it seems she had already beaten Banksy to it …

almost 10,000 peeks…

03 Sunday Sep 2006

Posted by in blogging, media, miscellany

≈ 21 Comments

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…since starting here on WordPress last May.

I reckon mostly lurkers from WordPress tag links and also from h2g2, since I have a link to my blog on my PS there. Still, that’s a lotta peeks. f_bigeyes.gif

I find that I lurk a lot more on blogs than I used to on h2g2. Perhaps because a lot of blogs seem more like personal journal entries rather than conversation threads. How about you? Are you mostly a ‘peeping tom’ or do you usually comment on blogs that you visit?

ps
checked out the new avatar feature yet?

lost in translation?

01 Friday Sep 2006

Posted by in media, teaching

≈ 12 Comments

babelfish2.JPG Look what I just found!

A peek at my blog stats awhile ago showed a visit from translate.google.com – the visitor had apparently translated my clothing biz category page into French. Or at least, into some sort of French.

Here was the result

And although my highschool French is now rustier than a chose rouillée, even I could see that some things were more than somewhat pas tout à fait bien .

Think I’ll go try out a page in Spanish now . . . f_run.gif

spam, spam, spam, spam…

29 Tuesday Aug 2006

Posted by in media, miscellany, rants

≈ 10 Comments

golden_honey_spam.jpg What the hell’s going on here?

I’ve recently been finding comments in my Akismet Spam file from people who have been posting here regularly.

Not only that, but most of the comments I’ve been posting lately have ended up in the Spam file … including comments I’ve posted on my own blogs! WTF?

And well, when they happen on my own blogs I can easily remedy the situation by going to Akismet and de-spamming comments. But I just posted a comment on Ivan’s blog and it didn’t show up so I’ve had to email him and ask him to de-spam me. Most inconvenient, not to mention annoying and confusing.

I’ve sent an email to WordPress Support and hope to hear from them soon. Just wondering if anyone else has been noticing this happening on their WordPress blogs?