Saturday, February 11, 2006

Damage control...

There seems to be a little argument going on in the comments of my last post. Thanks, kids, it's an interesting read. I'm now somewhat grateful that my msjbox is temporarily not working lest you use that as your platform instead.

Many seemed to be upset about Matthew being called the supreme intellect of the universe. I was being sarcastic, did you not read my previous post? I'm not sure if he's just being some kind of egoistical cynic (OK, he obviously is...) or if he's just joking, but this trait of his is what seems to be so endearing to all of you. Someone's even got a blog dedicated to writing about Matthew. By the way, Darrel, you stole one of the photos off my blog without permission and without giving me credit for it.

Matthew - thanks for announcing to the world about that silly little thing I signed up for years ago. I never got around to removing that entry. By the way, you need to run a spell check on your blog and the comments you write on others' blogs (including mine). And I've removed the link to your blog from my links page. It's not that I can't take bad language, but I simply cannot tolerate it from an underaged student who may think that it's cool to pepper every other sentence with offensive words. I still am your teacher, and I can't say that I find your entry about the cats remotely amusing, even if you didn't mean it (which I really hope you don't).

Having said and done that - I still like all of you kids very much, whether or not you're in my homeroom or in my class. I just think that there is still a long way more for you to grow up.

3 comments:

Darrel said...

haha i'm sorry, i'll give u credit then...VOILA! XD

Matthew P said...

"But I simply cannot tolerate it from an underaged student who may think that it's cool to pepper every other sentence with offensive words."

*grins*This would be very correct, the only problem is that I didn't write it.The original intent of blogs was a place that geeks could post snippets of interesting websites they'd visited.

A blog, by very definition of the word is a web log. Or a list (log) of interesting websites.Hence the term, web log, eventually shorterned to blog.

Notable blogs that still follow this format include :

http://dvorak.org/blog/
http://www.boingboing.net/
http://www.wired.com/

Thats blog blogs.

Now comes the advent of angsty teenagers with DSL.

Then what you get is an online diary.Instead of being a good tool for publishing information, the blog software and hardware is subverted into becoming an outlet for angst and stress.Not that this is a particularly bad thing, but i do feel people could have come up with a better name like "Web Diary" or something like that instead of clumping it all together like that.

It is therefore, accepted that all content of a blog is unoriginal unless stated otherwise.The original author can get repremanded by clicking the big green arrow that makes out the title of every post.

I am, not at all responsible for any of the content on blog.Unless stated otherwise.Simply because anybody can post.(This is in fact part of the legal disclaimer that accompanies my blog, and which the Blogger.com staff have on file)

How does "anybody" post you ask:

Send an email to
matthew_pang.newpost@blogger.com

With the entry you type as the body of the email.
I do state this multiple times, should anybody be free enough to look in the history.

"I can't say that I find your entry about the cats remotely amusing,"

Leave a comment.Specific if
possible.Its how people show dissent in the blog-o-sphere*.

About the spelling.

Leave a comment.Specific if possible.Its how people show dissent in the blog-o-sphere*.

And one more thing.

Ms. Hoo, in response to the strange calls you`ve been getting or whatever it was, its quite possible that this is also because your mobile number (with country code and international prefixes in fact) is on your icq profile.Google yourself using the new and improved as yet unreleased google engine on http://64.233.179.104/ and you`ll see why.

And one last thing,

Amielea`s blog at http://furtherconfessions-.blogspot.com/
Provides a very good link network to all the regular bloggers in the school.

*blog-o-sphere = modern marketplace of ideas.

Sze Yen said...

Thanks for your comment, Matt. Appreciate the clarification.

I know I could've left a comment on your blog, but to be quite honest, I just felt that entry just wasn't quite worthy of it, whether or not you posted it. Anyway I'm going to wait and read your future entries before I consider putting your blog on my links again on my page...

I tried the new Google engine you suggested, but I can't find my ICQ profile. But interestingly, I've found lots of links to myself in other pages. I think I can safely say that I am the only "Hoo Sze Yen" on the search engines. Every link with my name is really me, although some are outdated.