Latest Internet obsessions
24 March 2008, 2:33 pm. 20 Comments. Filed under Internet, Site-related, Web-related.
I used to think all those Web 2.0 social bookmarking and posting websites were useless. As in, I used to. Firstly, a while ago I gave in to del.icio.us, then Tumblr, then Last.fm, Twitter and the latest Flickr. (There are actually more.) Well what is the point of knowing what others are doing and listening to? Stalking purposes of course. Need I say more?
Along with that, I also installed the Firefox extensions Twitterbar (absolute love) and Shareholic to assist in posting to some of those.
Of course, can't skip out my own website. I spent a while putting my Twitter into the footer and hours this morning to get my Flickr photos onto my new Photographs page. It was a mission because they're stupid enough to not provide easier ways of displaying tweets/photos on user websites by PHP. And I didn't want the JavaScript and Flash options because pfft, PHP > all. Now add me if you're active on any of those sites. My username is usually either "wildx" or "wildx22" anywhere. 
This is an open invitation to stalk me!
On another note, I'm finding it really weird how I can't access wildx.org on my computer (works for others) most of the time when snow-willow.com always works. And they're both on the same server so technically they should either be both up or both down. Sometimes I'd be halfway through uploading something to the site when I can't connect through anymore. Therefore, please excuse any obvious and ugly overnight code errors you may come across.
A possible pedo/rapist/blah!@#$%
24 February 2008, 7:25 pm. 19 Comments. Filed under Internet, Web-related.
In my life so far I've met up with one person from the Internet. It was risky, but I had close male friends accompany me at first and they remained close by so I felt reasonably safe.
This coming week, it's seeing Amanda. Who knows, her photos could be fake and she could be a weird pedo/rapist/murderer/psycho-maniac. If she's any of those, I'll let you know. Actually, if she's any of those, I wouldn't live to let you know. Oh but she's seeing Nellie first tomorrow so I'll wait and see if Nellie poofs into thin air.
On the condition that I'm still safe after this daunting "date" with Amanda, I might get the chance to meet more bloggers in the future. So please just let me know right now if you're a pedo/rapist/blah!@#$%.
To stay safe, I guess I'll try and find a taser or pepper spray before I see Amanda. But knowing her, I know that if I "accidentally" use it on her I'll get bitch slapped.
Who are bloggers in real life?
2 December 2007, 2:00 pm. 17 Comments. Filed under Web-related.
What type(s) of people hang on the Internet? Who in the world would own websites not for the sake of commercial work? Why would anyone blog about his/her personal life and who the heck reads?
When people in real life hear about me blogging, their expressions tell me they're probably expecting something along the lines of the typical heaps-of-pink-and-glitter blah. But after the select few proceed to my website, it's the whole "Did you do this by yourself?" "Yeah." From here onwards, I'm seen as a no-life web geek who's going to fail her exams—until I actually don't. It's weird, because there's that whole bunch of young bloggers here and there who are apparently top students here and there. Now we're all just no-life web geeks. You could argue that geeks are perfectly fine (as they are), but I do actually have a life.
I don't like the tone certain "friends" use when they say: "What are you up to in the holidays? Doing your websites again?" Yes, yes, to those crazy binging party-girls, I'm just a boring loner who refuses to skateboard across busy roads and would rather do part-time work or sit at my computer during the holidays. But when I do have a choice, of course I would ditch the web for some fun day-out with better friends.
So who are we bloggers in real life? According to those parents of mine who still have their minds stuck in the 20th century, people who roam on the web are either slackers, pedophiles, rapists... or all of them. As for me, I am who I am and I'm none of those (only a bit of a procrastinator which I wouldn't quite classify as a slacker yet).
Are you content with your image amongst the offline ignorant around you? But who are you in real life? If you really are a rapist, well, I wouldn't know until you try to rape me. So before then, you can be who you claim to be—just another blogger like me who has a life to blog about.
