Words I Hate

The Internet spawns linguistic evils at perilous rates. This is an on-going list of words I have encountered that devilish syllabic constructions:

0) Blogosphere -- what the hell does this even mean? The sphere of blogs? The Internet isn't a sphere, it's a series of tubes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes. What's worse is people think it is respectable. The verbal vomit that is 24-hour news channels on cable -- CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC -- all have the same self-important spewage -- (getting lost with emdashes yet?) seem to think this garbage is a useful description of people that write messages like this on the Internet -- as opposed to writing code for determining the configuration space of a hexgonal robot using motion primitives based on arcs as I should be doing. Why do blogs have to have their own sphere? Isn't it journalism as well? Can't they just refer to the article? This word incites anger in my spleen it is so terrible.
1) Webinar -- I only recently stumbled across this abomination when Intel sent me an email. I almost took a pickaxe to my computer.
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3) Bloggernacle -- Holy Fuck! I can't believe I had to type that. Actually, I didn't type it, the vomit that I project across the room when I read the word gracefully managed to press just the right keys so as to keep my fingers virgin from such an atrocity.

There's a Second For Everything

As with most things in life, you try it once, forget about it, then later realize that it was something good, so you try to go back. Sometimes you can, most of the time you can't and just have to move on.

Once upon a time, I had a blog -- it lasted for two, possibly three posts. Well, now that I'm older, more bitter, and spending my life
thinking about any and everything, it seems time to give a blog another go. Who knows,
maybe things will work out this time.

Why now? I have lots of thoughts and opinions on very random things -- like seemingly
everyone else in the world, so why not spew them onto the rapidly accumulating midden
heap that has become the Internet.

You might get a personal account occasionally, but more likely you read about how I
dislike Canadian quarters, elevators, and most importantly, the Tech Shuttle. All for
reasons that are strange and based on my unique interpretation of life.

Why did I choose blogger? Because you can get RSS or Atom feeds of the stories. I don't want to spend my life checking a million websites, so why not let your browser do it for you and then tell you the results, hence that's what the beauty of Really Simple Syndication does for you.
 
There you have it.