InkBlot's Inkernet

Some hours after wrestling with the daemons of LiveJournal, I peek at my blog to discover my epic failure. In having to delete and recreate my LJ, I’ve inadvertently spammed anyone who had me on their friends page.

I honestly never expected reposting entries back dated to last year would show up in friends lists. I sincerely apologize to everyone affected by this, I hope I fall off your lists soon.

Yeah, real fancy on the titles there, I know.  Well, if you’ve been watching the craziness this afternoon, I’ve been blowing up my livejournal real good.  That’s because of two things:

• I actually host all content at my own site: inkernet.com and I’ve just updated said site to the newest Wordpress, and with that, changed to a new LiveJournal crossposting thingie, that also supports…
• Another mirror I’ve created at dreamwidth.org.  It’s a spinoff of LiveJournal, to which some of my friends are already moving.  So, I have a foot in both doors, so to speak.

So….after much loss of brain matter, I’ve merged old comments from LJ over to the “core” website, inkernet.com.  And, I’ve now set it where thats the only place to leave comments.  I hope this doesn’t scare away any LJ or DW people, there’s no registration needed!  Just click the link at the bottom of each post, and you’ll be at my site.  A name, e-mail (which stays hidden), and your comments are all you need. This is all to protect my sanity in the long run, but it may kill comments entirely…I tried this in the past, but had actual user registration running over at inkernet.com and no one posted.  I think it was just too much for anyone to take.  So, I turned that off and I’m relying on akismet to keep the spam off me. I will just have to try and post such witty, such incredible, such wonderful content you won’t have any choice but to come tell me how spiffy I am. Failing that, cute kittens:

Whether it’s me or the other guy, I’ll let you decide.

A side link on Digg led me to the article Seven (More) Reasons to Ditch Your iPhone.  I’ll point out now, for full disclosure.  I own a cat.  Oh, and an iPhone, too.

So far as I know, the cat is not impressed by my iPhone.

Anyhoo, the author of said article has lined up his reasons why we should be throwing the torches and pitchforks Apple’s way, and abandoning ship for a cheaper, more friendly cell phone & carrier.  Although, he’s directing his ire at Apple, not AT&T, but I digress.  I’ve read the article, and I have to call “crap!”

Let’s look at his points, shall we?

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