Today I held a non-mechanical pencil! Made of real wood!
Originally published at shanefitzsimmons.com. You can comment here or there.
Maybe it’s a little sad, but I think this is the first time in years that I’ve held an oldschool style #2 pencil, without mechanics to pump the lead out to me. I’m not sure why, but it makes me feel like the apocalypse is near.
Random thought, I know. And now I’m done with it. We’re moving on now.
I post my journals through Wordpress, which simultaneously publishes to both livejournal and my website’s blog at www.shanefitzsimmons.com, but my website has gone a little neglected by me. Nothing permanent, but I’m just used to livejournal, and basically everyone I know posts through livejournal anyway, so I just haven’t really been looking at my website for about two weeks until today. And I found a couple of comments in there! Woohoo!
I also found spam! My first spambot, which was promptly executed. This puts me in a predicament though, because now that the spamtrons have found me, I’m going to have to take some precautions to prevent them from coming at me in the future. I’ve considered making comments possible by people have registered, but I don’t know if that means registering with my website or with wordpress. I’ll check, but in either case I think that might be one annoying step people won’t like, and will cause them to simply not bother posting. I’ve also considered simply dropping the website blog and simply link straight to livejournal, but then what the fuck is the point of having the website in the first place, y’know? I might just disable comments on the blog, but that blows too.
I wonder if there’s a way to get comments to post to both livejournal and the blog (the blog at this point being considered my website). Basically have them be completely linked up, which might be interesting, and enable everyone to show up regardless of where they’re posting from. I’ll look into that too.
I got my first virus yesterday. Some bitch with the screen name of JoyusSeptember11 sent me an IM with a link to my livejournal, but it had an alternate address. It was like srfitzsimmons (the name of my livejournal) .somebullshit.com or something like that. It looked odd, so I IMed the guy back and asked him what that was all about, assuming that if it were a prank he wouldn’t respond.
Well he did, so like a moron I clicked the link, and the next thing I know QuickTime is going apeshit dancing across my screen and firefox turns into a link of 90 year old men gangbanging in a bathtub or something. Wasn’t sure if it was a full-on virus or just something to fuck with me for the time being, but I wound up running two virus scans plus AdAware and Spybot Search & Destroy. They found a few things, who knows if it came from that guy or not, but Jesus Christ. What the fuck is the point of this? Who has this kind of time on their hands, and why go through the trouble of finding my livejournal, searching for my screen name, and then IMing me viruses? Pretty annoying, cost me like an hour of my time scrubbing my hard drive, but it seems like the crisis is over.
If anyone gets some time and wants to bombard some silly bitch with a virus of their own, the jackass’ Screen Name again is: JoyusSeptember11.