PS
Not that you were sitting on the edges of your seats or anything, but just in case you were wondering…won’t be posting much this week. Think I am on strike from myself. Will be back next week. Same cat time, same cat channel.
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comment spam is sooo evil
I really really look forward to getting comments. It is such a nice form of communication for me because although it is great chatting with people long distance in real time…it doesn`t quite hit the mark. So when I see that I have an email for a comment to be approved I get really excited!!
Then it is actually spam…grrr.
They toy with my emotions and the frustrating thing is a) spammers have no clue who they are toying with and b) they are wasting their resources posting to my site anyway! Who are these people? It seems so impersonal that it seems impossible for there to be a person behind it but there must be someone.
Spam is just weird…and evil.
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getting sick of titles A
I’ve been thinking about the content of my website lately; thinking about its purpose, my goals and motivation, the benefits, etc. The theme of my thinking is generally:
why? overdone. redundant. who cares?
I feel somewhat negative about writing especially when I regurgitate a lot so I’m going to try avoiding that for the next little while…at least directly.
Yes kids, I’m gonna try to make this all about me.
As much as I can at least. My days have been super awesome so there isn’t much I can complain about. There was that alarm that went off at 6am this morning. It kept on going and going but I was already soaking in the tub so I couldn’t complain.
The head mop is getting chopped at 9am which means this will almost certainly be a good hair day…all I need to do is maintain my esteem for an hour and then I will be on the top of the world. I have this thing with going to salons and it is likely the subreason (the main reason being money) for why I wait so long between hair cuts. As soon as I walk into the place I immediately become self-aware and awkward. I feel like I’m surrounding by a club of fashionable beautiful people that are on top of everything and my only access to that club is by paying large sums of money to be a character in the periphery. Very negative, I know, but I’m working on it. Seriously though, I think I spend more time making myself up to get my hair cut than I do for the odd date here and there.
Speaking of date…I need to find one because it could make life just that much more interesting. That and I only have another month and a half before I check out of Vancouver so I need not to worry about implications of possible dates. Unfortunately, I think that I might not know how, or maybe I did at one point but I’ve forgotten. If you have any tips please let me know. For now I’ll just pretend that I’m beyond dating and that there are more important things in life. *closes eyes, tosses head, and tilts nose up in air*
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and then I can’t sleep
This is evil. I was all pumped to get up at 5 and hit the 6:30 am yoga class. Oh my rubber arm I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it anymore! So I roll over and open waffles to start browsing (waffles sleeps next to me).
Website stats > Search Query Report > horseback riding trot butt blog
That’s all one query. Google it…I come up first. Hehe.
I love checking up on my search queries. I laugh, I’m amazed, and then I feel bad because it’s likely that my site didn’t actually have the valuable information needed.
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Speaking of Google-Stalking…
Funny thing – me being the trigger-happy deleting person I am and figuring that the blog transplant was successful, I decided to delete the old archives. Then I googled myself to see if, though highly unlikely since I think it takes some time for their bots to find you, the new site comes up. No… …but all of my old posts are listed. All which return 404 errors when you navigate to them. Hmm. Yeah I didn’t really think that one out.
I did some searching and I found that there is a way to remove directories on your site from Google’s index. So I created this file, robots.txt, which tells the Google-bots and other search engine bots which directories I want to “disallow” from their indexes. My request is “pending” so in the meantime, I’ve set up an “I’m sorry” page to be returned in the event of 404s.
Still, I’m a little worried. On the page where I can check the removal status, it says:
You may remove your URL from Google’s results or your Usenet posts from Google Groups. URLs and posts will typically be removed within 5 days of a successfully submitted request. Please keep in mind that submitting via the automatic URL removal system will cause a temporary, six months, removal of your site from the Google index.
k – so does that mean that my entire site will be banished from Google for 6 months?!! Oh boy. What if someone is google-stalking me?!
This whole experience is worrying me, my anxiety is worrying me. Why do I care so much about google hits? Maybe because I know my name is unique and I feel as though I should be continuously writing a search result story with a collage of links?
Ha ha…really…I need to get out. So I think I’m going to see Just Friends tonight with Noah. Not normally the type of movie I would pay 10$ for, but it was filmed in Regina and I am feeling especially fond of the city and its people lately. In two weeks I will be there and feeling better. In three weeks I will be missing Vancouver again.
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