I don’t really receive negative comments. My blog is not that famous. The comments I usually get are from my friends, both IRL and online.
However, I very rarely get a comment that is nasty. It usually rants about my appearance, fashion sense, writing style, geekyness and how I should just “get someone to end my poor existence already”. At first it stings, as any blogger can tell you, getting nasty comments leaves you with a very bad after taste, that’s why I just delete and ban the IP after I read them.
After I get over the bad after taste (during the deleting and banning), I think one thing only: “Oh man, I’m popular!”. You see, people who write negative comments have to do at least three things before commenting:
Find you: That’s right, before someone can comment negatively, they have to find your website. Which means that you are reaching people! You are becoming popular!
Read your content: My last negative comment came from page 4 on my blog. This person skimmed over 4 pages of content before they decided that they couldn’t stand me. But they read 4 pages! 4! I don’t think that many people do that, at least not in my blog.
Write the actual comment: Which also includes thinking about a fake name, email address and website. That takes like 2 minutes of time plus the 3 minutes it takes to write the comment and click the send button. People dedicate that time to you, so you must be getting relevant for them to react so strongly against you.
So yeah, wen I get a negative comment I feel popular and relevant. I don’t see the point in them but creating a negative comment does take time and effort of the people who do it. Yes, they might say extremely nasty things but they can also include clever Chuck Norris references and links to inappropriate websites.
With that said, I just want everyone to know that negative comments will be spammed, deleted and banned. I don’t like having those types of comments being published here, that’s why I started to moderate all my comments, all of them.
I’m thinking and thinking about what I want to write about. I wanted to give this blog more of a direction this year but I guess that it will always be my personal blog, so it doesn’t have any direction at all. When I decide to launch a business I’ll just open a different website and then it will have a direction. In the meantime, let’s have some fun n_n.
Oh man, I ♥ so many things this week! It’s incredible.
Spring Break anticipation (!!!) ♥ Job hunting (although I haven’t heard anything back yet) ♥ Taking silly pictures in the middle of a very boring class ♥ PC ♥ Pink nails ♥ Extremely cheap but delicious pink lipstick (I’m talking about $1 MXN per tube $1 MXN (!!!) ) ♥ Nested parenthesis ♥ Pi Day ♥ Playing Plants vs Zombies both on my PC and my iPod Touch ♥ Driving ♥ Sunny (albeit windy) days ♥ Hanging out with L&L (even if it’s just to do homework) ♥ Getting emails from important people ♥ Ripping out pages from magazines and pasting them on my Unicorn Wall ♥ Lady Gaga as my traffic jam soundtrack ♥ Looking for dresses for my friends’ graduation party ♥ Hugging my boys (& PC) ♥ Long weekends ♥ Designing ♥ Cuddling with my puppy ♥ Watching movies & series & cartoons on my laptop ♥ Planning new blog design ♥ changing my theme all the time ♥ dressing like a rockstar
Web Design & Aesthetics
The Best Worst Web Designs, this made me cringe in horror and then enjoy because if the design atrocities. It’s awesome!
Hating databases? I don’t like them very much either, but they sure are useful and almost make the world go round. These 10 sql tips for speeding your database can help you overcome that hatred
Have you ever encountered an HTML that you just can’t read? Yeah, me too. They’re awful. To avoid those, these 10 best practices for front-end Web Developers should give you a head start
I can’t stand the sight of blood, hospitals or anything like that. However I love reading about medical cases and The Strange Tale of Phineas Gage was WOW! I learned so much about lobotomies, you have no idea!
Oh, this is my new, favourite, awesome time waster. It’s called flame and basically you can draw with fire. I’m not very good but here’s one that I’ve done:
Flame! (I’m not creative or very good at drawing XDD I’m sure you can come up with better stuff)
So, that’s it for today! How has been your week, also show me you flame artwork!
I didn’t until Alekz told me like 3 weeks ago. So to celebrate it (cuz, that’s how geeky I am), I went to McDonald’s to get an Apple Pie and ate it heartily!
I’ve been having problems with WordPress lately (not enough to convert to another CMS though, I loves me some WordPress). Anyways, this week has taken a toll on me. I had two exams (one really difficult and one super easy) and yestrday I went to visit a company to get a project done.
I’ve been meaning to post outfit pictures but the pics I took from my Wednesday outfit ended up looking plain nasty. Even after editing, they were some serious ugly and I blame the lightning in my room for that. I wore fishnets to school! YEAH! FISHNETS! I’ve been meaning to wear some of my new tights before it gets too hot to do it (because, apparrently, after the cold waves and the rain waves come the heat waves). Apparently, the boys like fishnets. It was so funny! I was totally aware that they wouldn’t look me in the eye and that they would focs on my legs but it was so funny! One of my friend told me “I’m seriously making an effort to look at you in the eye”. I guess they liked them.
I’m actually cooking in my room with all my windows open. I still think that this is better than the cold and the rain though, so I’ll deal with it.
Did I tell you that I found a spelling mistake on this month’s Elle Mexico? I emailed the editor-in-chief and she answered me with an apology. I seriously wouldn’t have noticed if it wasn’t for the fact that the mistake was in the Alexander McQueen Memorial article. I’m pretty sure that it was a typing mistake, they tend to happen a lot. Still, it was cool to recieve an email from the editor-in-chief.
Do you know what happened yesterday?
Well, yesterday was GeNmA’s birthday! He is one of my boys and is the one person I actually talk to EVERYDAY. So be nice and go on to his birthday post and say happy birthday to him. He’s been a good panda all year.
Happy Birthday Pakito!!!
Well, I need to get ready to go out with the parents. I might dye my hair red, what do you think?
I love love love love love love this Alice in Wonderland spread that I clicked through today. It is awesome and I can’t wait until I go see the movie (Monday 11:30 am to avoid crowds/children/squealing people, yes, I’m THAT crabby). Anyways, the spread is called Welcome to Wonderland and I totally used pictures from it to make my new desktop wallpaper.
I have a ton of stuff to do that I should’ve done since last week. I guess that the productivity streak has come to a halt. I just can’t find the will to do anything, I guess that I’m feeling a bit lost and well quite bleh. I don’t think that I’m making any sense right now. Weel, it is National Procrastination Week in the US and I’m so going to take that as my excuse for being a lazy bum lately.
Thursday night, I almost had the worst car crash ever! Right where I leave uni, there is this huuuge slope. So, I was going down the slope like super slow (it’s super steep and it was dark) and suddenly I see headlights right in front of me, I come to a full stop and then see the headlights go onto the other lane. I was terrified but I left the scene as soon as I could. I really hate it when people go so fast that they miss the lanes ¬¬. I saw my life flash before my eyes. Sadly, it’s not the first time that has happened to me.
I changed my computer setup. I only have a laptop (HP dv200 which has served me well for the past 3 years), but it gets uncomfortable to use the little touchpad and my keyboard is starting to fall apart. So, this is what I did to make it feel more desktop-like:
I basically prop my laptop on a book (I don’t really have a special laptop stand because a. My laptop doesn’t open a lot and b. My battery is too large for them), in my case it’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix XD. Then I grabbed an old wired mouse that belonged to my sister (she now has a wireless one that she doesn’t use but won’t let me have), and a keyboard that my Dad got at Best Buy but didn’t like because it’s in English (he didn’t read the box before buying it…). The keyboard bothers me because of the keys not being the same as in Spanish, Alekz swears that I will get used to it but I don’t know…
I also have my bears from London, a Tux and a beer cooler that holds pens, USBs and my Hello Kitty watch. I’m planning to get rid of a lot of stuff that sits there like old pens and pencils. Then, I have two gray boxes, one contains cables and the other contains all the reading material for this semester and important documents. Also my Moleskine and spare notebook.
The other side of the desk is for our landline (which I usually never answer) and my gadgets like my iPod and BlackJack II. I’m actually missing my other notebook and some other supplies that are in my bookbag. I try to keep my desk as uncluttered as possible but it’s hard. Paper piles up so fast. BTW, my printer and scanner reside in my Dad’s office/workshop/gym XD.
Well, I actually have to get to work (been avoiding it and I have a ton of stuff to do), so I’ll write more when I’m done.
Another week… did you have fun? I sure did with my grandmother here. She’s super cool and awesome. I had to filter down a lot of the links that I found to bring you the best of the best.
Garance Doré is in the front row of the Rodarte show (which I missed because my teacher decided to cancel class at the very last minute and I didn’t make it home on time)
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