It’s annoying. I want to click once. I do not want to click, wait for a page to load, and find I have to click again – just so some Digg traffic can be recorded, or whatever the hell the supposed point is. (The Facebook page link thing strikes me as simply lazy.)

Stop sending me to Digg! If you want to share content, share it. Hiding it behind another page and demanding extra action on my part isn’t a good way to do so. If you want me to Digg your article, write a good article (that’d be favourite), have a prominent “digg” button – oh, and remind me of my login details for Digg while you’re at it, would you? Don’t try to hornswaggle me into doing so by sending me to Digg instead of your page.

I. Will. Leave.

If I could un-digg pages like that, I would. Seriously. It stinks like a trap: trying to trick me into doing something unknowingly, or even against my wishes.

Grumble moan whinge bleat.

Dropping their “comments” into a spam queue for me to review and trash, that is. Here’s a wee pic of said spam queue, so you can “enjoy” the ridiculousness of the “comments” (click to embiggenate):

Ok, some of them sound almost like they’re a real person – until you look at (a) the post on which they supposedly are commenting, and (b) their url. Hmmph.

Ah well. Askimet pwns spam (at the moment at any rate) – and without me having to use captchas, or approve comments or any nastiness like that.

Anyway, 10 things that annoy me (in no particular order) …

1. People who denigrate virtuosity on the guitar, as though it’s ok to have chops if you’re a pianist or sax player or something, but if you play guitar all you should play are strummed chords and sloppy pentatonics
2. Cookie Monster Vocals
3. Manufactured plastic music
4. “Reality” TV
5. 3 + 4 >_<
6. Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Iridology, Reiki, Acupuncture, Deepak Chopra, Oprah Winfrey, Suzanne Somers, Dr Phil, Mike Adams … Woo in all its forms
7. Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, Age of Autism, Meryl Dorey, the Australian Vaccination Network … anti-vaxxers in general.
8. Scientology
9. The fact I have to sleep every night – damn waste of time

Aaaaand …

10. The fact that hair metal is not recognised as the pre-eminent music force in the history of the world. \m/ \m/

I don’t know why but I’ve reached 3000 visitors, and 20,000 page-views on this random unfocused internet weblog-thing (Maybe I should have done this as a Thursday Thing I Don’t Understand – I certainly need some more posts in that category … )

So why are you coming here???? (leave a comment and let me know). But anyway …

Thanks for reading

New Year, New Schedule

I’ve been thinking about the various sorts of posts I do on here, and how best to keep them going in a useful and manageable way. – And I’ve had an idea, one which includes the addition of a brand-new category.

Music Monday posts will remain a regular feature: pretty much every week. These might be anything related to music, but the aim will be to do a reasonably significant post as my ‘Music Monday’ post.

‘Midweek Medicine’ and ‘Friday Filosophy’ posts will continue, but without a specific schedule (i.e. no longer aiming for alternate weeks). Basically whenever I have a medicine/psychiatry or ‘thinking’ post of some significance, I will post it on a Wednesday or Friday respectively.

In-between those days I will no doubt be adding other posts – at times about music, medicine, or ‘filosophy’ (pretty much anything around thinking). These posts, too big for Twitter but too small for the main Music Monday, Midweek Medicine, or Friday Filosophy spots, I will post as they come to me, and will hence exist in various degrees of elaboration.

New Category

As I mentioned, I’ll also be adding a new ‘day’ category. I’ll call this one ‘Thursday Things I Don’t Understand’

… It’ll definitely be an ongoing series