About This Blog
This blog was established and has been here at this same URL since June 2000. As far as I’m aware, it’s the first blog with the name “So anyway”. Originally, the blog was all coded and rotated by hand, believe it or not. Then I used Blogger, when it was still a tool you mostly used on your own website, rather than have them host it for you. Then I moved to Greymatter for a while, and then to Movable Type for several years. Now, I’m quite happily using WordPress, and the entries were imported from that MT blog (blog entries from the Greymatter, Blogger, and hand-code days are not available, though I do have them stowed away on my hard drive and backed up on DVD).
The random quote generator that puts a quote on every page is a CGI script which was written for me by Andrew (you can play with the raw output of it if you want; one of these days, Andrew is going to write me a script that will display all the quotes on one big page, though it won’t be dynamic because that would be super slow and hard on the server). The quotes, themselves, represent many years of collecting (more than a decade as of this writing). The quotes you see are all simply ones I personally like, chose, and found interesting for any of a thousand possible reasons. After all, as Somerset Maugham said, “The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
I keep the content here fairly clean. I do this by choice. There is some occasional mild swearing (and I do mean mild), the occasional link to subject matter that’s not really appropriate for children, and sometimes I write about things that are probably best left to somewhat more mature audiences. Still, it’s never worse than that which the American film industry would rate PG-13 (Australian ratings would probably say M for Mature Audiences), and most of the time, it’s entirely G-rated. This is not because I am unable or unwilling to swear. I can make a United States Marine blush, and I know because I’ve done it. I just choose to keep it mostly clean on this website.
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About Me
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I am 50% Asshole/Bitch.
 I am abrasive, some people really hate me, but there may be a group of other tight knit assholes and bitches that I can hang out with and get me. Everybody else? Fuck ‘em. |
If you’re even remotely interested in learning more about me as a person, visit the rest of my domain and have a look around. There’s more about me on this domain than anyone could ever possibly want to know.
I tend to be verbose, and I can be somewhat opinionated, which is why I keep a public journal/weblog. This blog is all personal, and it’s all mine. It’s a soapbox, a “message in a bottle”, a means of sharing links and bits of humor, something I do for my personal entertainment. That some other people seem to like to read it is also okay.
I write because I feel like doing so, and although I’m happy to express my own opinion, I don’t particularly care if I change anyone elses’. I honestly don’t care if people agree with me on almost any topic at all. As Oscar Wilde so cannily observed, “When someone agrees with me, I always feel I must be wrong.”
So, hey, you’re welcome to disagree with any of my opinions, positions, and views. In fact, I encourage people to think for themselves and consider their options before blindly accepting things other people write on their websites. I’m not into arguing, though, particularly not with people I don’t know well, so if you write to me to bitch me out or flame me or try to get me to argue with you, you’re not going to get very far, other than possibly having your mail posted as an example of the Moron Mailâ„¢ I sometimes receive (but the mail has to be both stupid and entertaining or I delete without comment).
The thing is, I don’t actually believe that most people in the world give a fat, hairy rat’s arse about my thoughts, my opinions, my ideas, etc. As mentioned, I write for my own amusement, my own self-expression, and to communicate with whomever wishes to receive the communication, and to fill the internet with even more noise and bandwidth wastage.
In other words, it’s just a weblog. Don’t take it too seriously, okay? I certainly don’t!
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