Sweet is my surprise
Ok… at the moment I’m grooven to Venus Hum (Soul Sloshin presently in play) and just a little hyped on the win at monopoly (putting it mildly, I ROCKED!) and the bottle of Champagne I basically consumed myself. Hmmmm…. let’s just say I’m feeling fine. It’s been a quiet holiday… couldn’t have ordered a better week. I plan to drink my fair share of Champagne over the next few days…consider that my first New Year’s Resolution.
What the !!!! were you thinking???
While things have been slow around here on the home front… my site had a great deal of activity during the holiday. It turns out, if you want to be popular and drum up lots of interest in your site, you need only to do a few simple things. The first is… use the words “GONE WILD” in a heading or title and watch the porn seekers find you. So far I have been viewed by people seeking: Nerds going wild, Seminarians going wild, people with pets… you get the idea.
The other option is to stump the truly elite of the cyber world: Linux geeks. It appears that my (!) in my URL is a non-standard character–which should not have been allowed by Blogger in the first place. This means little if you, like the countless millions who ardently read my page, use Windows. But if you are of the tiny percent of geeky rebels who use a Linux based approach (or something similar) then you are fucked because the page won’t load. Your OS won’t recognize the non-standard use of an (!) in the address. IZ, being the techno militant that he is, posted this little anomaly on the Mozilla board for bugs (adeptly named “Bugzilla”… those boys are soooooooooooooooooooooooooo creative) and the debate raged for a few days. One side thought that it was a bug in Windows and its antichrist cronies to allow a gaf of great proportions such as an exclamation point in an URL. The other side was convinced that if Windows could do it, then so should Linux and what the fuck was their problem in the first place. This means little to me…except every last one of these guys had to click on my site to see for themselves. (I had 30+ hits on Christmas Eve alone!!!) I find myself strangely turned on by all this attention. The conclusion… that the lovely line with a dot should be banned and that this is just another attempt by the monster that is Mircrosoft to expand the cyber universe by breaking rules. And for crying out-loud…. the rules rule, damn it. Get with the program. Already.
Frankly, I was completely astonished that Blogger allowed me to use an non-standard character… but that was ages ago, and my guess (now that they have have been consumed by Google) is that they play by the rules these days. Then I was just being a bit rebellious… screw your codes and the IDN… who needs ya anyway? Now… I just think the ! is a pain in the ass to type. I never got that far in typing 101 anyhow… But after all this discussion on Bugzilla… I’m so tempted to rename the new domain: EVIDENTLY! Heh.
So, for the brief moment of popularity, I must thank the cutting edge anarchists out there who run Linux and assorted systems for your attention. Even if you just clicked to see if your system could handle me. All I can say is be thankful you only found my website. In real life you couldn’t handle this.
