You FAIL!

Hello tweeple of the blogosphere – what are your thoughts of M$’s latest OS being talked about on teh intrawebs? Do you think all the sheeple are n00bs instead of l33ts and have they just been pwned? I can haz cheezburger. Srsly, ppl, you need to reboot! LOL

If you’re wondering what I’ve been smoking, not to worry, just follow the link on to Techradar’s article about the 29 tech phrases that you should be punched in the face for using to find out what I’m on about. If you understood the above, follow it anyway and see what phrases are fast becoming tech faux pas.

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You know, back in the early days of the Internet people were left to their own devices and added scrolling marquees, flashing text and TONS of animated GIFs to their pages to “spruce” (sic) them up. And as the Internet became more popular among more people, others too, who weren’t that technically (?) minded, wanted their own space on the Internet too – along came blogging tools and websites offering easy ways to publish your own content online. 

Even though I’ve had various personal, company and group-related websites up since the mid-90′s I’ve only been active on the blogosphere for the past 3 months, and I’m glad I did a little bit of research before starting – especially when it comes to picking a blogging-tool.

I initially was going to go with my own provider’s blogging tool but I didn’t like the templates, features or usability. The same applied to Blogger and MySpace (and boy was I warned about MySpace). I really thought the early days of ugly websites were gone by about 2000 but it seems MySpace has provided a platform for people to create ugly sites again (like they did when they first created and releases MS FrontPage). I’ve been to about a dozen or so MySpace pages of various people I’ve wanted to see profiles of and I’ve yet to see a decent looking page on that platform other than (maybe, at  stretch) the MySpace home page.

So then I finally settled on WordPress.com and looking back, I’m very happy I did.

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