Just going to cut to the chase and say this is cleverly done. Check it out!

After not posting for a while, I forgot the main reason why I didn’t post regularly. Now I know why, spam. The amount of “comment-spam” I get is unbelievable considering I don’t think this website gets visited that often that someone would be looking at the comments.  So that’s why I wanted to try and add something so that spambots wouldn’t even be able to comment in the first place.  Then I got side tracked and I wondered why the hell even use bots.. and I found that bots themselves are good for some things and really annoying for other things (for instance flooding my comment moderation page). 

Things that give bots a good name:

1. They are able to collect a lot of information on the web tremendously fast.
2. It could be easily implemented using a scripting language like Python.

Things that give bots a bad name:

1. Spam, spam, spam!!!!
2. They also flood the internet traffic which is pretty much the equivalent of a two 18-wheelers going side by side on a highway reviewing each store/diner they see.

 

So what will I do?  Something clever.  Something beyond clever.  I’ll maybe do it tomorrow, or maybe not at all for a while.  But if you know any good way to moderate comments and not have someone sign up or not have someone say what they see in a picture, etc… let me know.  Right now I’m thinking something along the lines of a series of mouse clicks/movements with flash and hooking it up with wordpress.    

To the drawing board! 

Watched Pentheus last night at the Passe Muraille Theatre and now I plan on watching them all!  Met and chatted with Ned Dickens who provided me with inspiration and great insight to the whole story.  If you can, you should check it out, but hurry because I got the inside scoup that tickets for the first cycle is completly sold out (you can arrive before and put yourself on a waiting list for those who don’t show) and the second cycle is quickly on its way of being sold out as well.  For more info go here. 

A new one must be composed for the next giant leap. This was taken from Galilei’s book Il Saggiatore.

“Philosophy [i.e., physics] is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering around in a dark labyrinth.” 

So I haven’t written a post for quite some time now.  Do I plan on coming back and writing a post on a regular basis?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  Truth of the matter is that I’ve simply been busy.  Yes, too busy to even write a single sentence.  After all it isn’t too hard to write a sentence.  It doesn’t even have to make sense.

So the question is, if I can write a sentence that doesn’t make sense, why don’t I post it?  Some reasons are; a) I don’t want to be wasting people’s time, b) it would be incomprehensible and c) it would be too easy.  Blogging should not be easy.  I mean being a good blogger isn’t easy.  That leads me to the main reason why I haven’t posted.  I want to be a good blogger.  So what do I do? I wait, and wait and contemplate on whether or not I should post something.  Most of the cases, I don’t post anything and all that thinking of what to post and actually having something that I could have posted went down the drain.   So not only did I just waste the thoughts and never posted it, I also didn’t even know if it was going to be a good post or a bad one because I didn’t even post it!

At this point, if it were 2008; I would’ve already canned this lame attempt to post.  But it’s 2009 and some things have to change.  Notably posting more often.  I hate doing this, but I’m going to do it and here is my New Years Resolution list:

1) Post something at least once every week.
2) Read the books which I started and have been putting off.
3) Start training for the runs that signed up for.
4) Monthly, do some randomly good deed for anyone.
5) Stick to my new years resolution.