__/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 04 January 2007 13:59 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> What broke the Camel's Back?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | I pulled a Ubuntu CD, that was sent to me and shipped to Saudi Arabia
>> | free of charge, slammed it in the CD bay and asked Linux to nuke
>> | the whole drive and remove all the crap that called its self Windows,
>> | I don't want to see that Ugly flag, I don't want to click the stupid
>> | green Start button any more, I had enough, that was the straw that
>> | broke the camels back.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | PS. I read that Microsoft are buying love, by sending bloggers
>> | top-notch laptops, so that they would be kind to Vesta, if I am
>> | lucky enough to get a Free laptop from them, I will nuke it
>> | with Linux.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=2779
>
> I don't know why MS is worried about blogs, its not as if anyone reads them
> other than the writer.
>
> Blogs is for writing self centered sad and miserable tosh about the writer
> and for low knowledge base self oppinionated trash, they are not meant to
> be read by anybody. Goodness, next you'll be saying that we all read these
> rss feeds that we have scrolling acoss our screens, its just a sort of toy
> thats all, no reading skills necessary.
>
> I thought I might have another go at a blog, what do you think of this for
> an opening line?
>
> "I, the blog writer, am a sad and misserable git and would like to share it
> with everyone around the world to make you misserable too'.
True. It's useful as a personal journal where you toss some code snippets,
memories, and other junkyard material. Sometimes, however, other people
'tune in'. As for Microsoft worrying, bear in mind that they send laptops to
heavily-syndicated blogs. Techcrunch, for example, has 130,000+ RSS
subscribers the last time I checked (I am among these).
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~~ Best wishes for the new year!
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