I’ve been doing this blog for two years now and a couple have things have surprised me. One is that people bother to visit it. And two, the posts that still get regular comments months after they were originally posted.
Like the post I did about my old computer blowing up. The company that made it has gone bust so my blog has become a bit of an online forum for people with the same problem. Daniel found tilting the screen helps. (I tried it – it only worked for a while). Spikeonbass suggests giving it a good old vacuum. Abdul, an ex-Elonex employee has even used my blog to tout for business fixing them. I’m considering sending Elonex’s liquidators a bill for technical support services!
The other post that still gets comments is the one where I suggested Pingu was on drugs. It was tongue-in-cheek but that didn’t stop the hate-mail. Eanus told me to go **** myself and called me an ‘insufferable middle class mail reading housewife.’ Pingu Lover (not their real name, I suspect) said I was the one on drugs and that I could kiss their ass. Silvia was quite helpful though. She informed me that Pingu was made in Finland, not Switzerland.
The thing that amazes me is that these people even find their way to my blog. I can understand the computer one – there’s zero support for Elonex customers since the company went under. But how did Eanus and Pingu Lover find my blog? I suspect it was by googling Pingu/drugs!
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Your server should have access logs which you can look at to determine how people are coming to your website. Just check with your webhost. You can also get free trackers. Nothing is ever undetectable on the internet!
For example, ages ago I wrote a satirical entry entitled “Harry Potter Spoilers” where I blasted Harry for having ‘yellow fever’ in his wanting to hook up with Cho Chang. To this day, it’s still my most visited post by people wanting to discover the ending to Harry Potter, and I know this because my server logs tell me that they arrive via a google search for ‘Harry Potter spoilers”.
As I’m sure you’re aware, Pingu himself (probably) wasn’t on drugs, unless he’d sampled some very dodgy fish. But I’m sure that Pingu is one of many childrens’ TV shows that were made by people under the influence of certain illegal substances!
that’s the problem with blogging. one day you’re a regular, toast-eating, bus-catching human… then suddenly you’re a skin-eating, cloak-wearing creature of the undead.
There is a great episode of Pingu where him and his seal buddy go to a cafe and drink what appears to be a load of milk. They leave, Pingu stumbles into stuff on the way home and p*sses up the side of his Igloo. He goes to bed. His dad wakes him up in the morning and makes him clean all his p*ss up. Make of it what you will, but it certainly sounded like my days of drinking as a youth. So maybe he’s not on hard drugs, but he certainly seems to have a drink problem.