I’m 1337 after all
If you are reading this, congratulations, Chandrachoodan.
I was fucking done with SpamKarma and Gatekeeper. And so were all you good folks. Which meant only one thing – Akismet. But since Selective Amnesia, till 2 hours ago was powered by WordPress 1.5.2, I had to, well, kiss Akismet bye bye.
So, on the spur of the moment and all, I upgraded to WordPress the shiniest, the latest, version #2.3.1. And installed Akismet. And a few other little bells and whistles which you shall see over the next few days. There was one major fuck up when I ran the upgrade, due in large parts to my hastiness and some to my stupidity. But using a special technique known only to me, I managed to not only find out what went wrong, but rectify it also.
Let it be known: I’m 1337!
Why dumb people shouldn’t be incharge of marketing your services.
Deepanjali is either the most penetratingly intelligent person ever on earth, or the dumbest. Because this is my blog and I get to air any opinion I want, and because I am in the mood to be caustic, I will go with the latter opinion. Deepanjali is supremely dumb. And she is (apparently) in-charge of promoting the blog aggregator thingummy called Blog Adda.
How? She leaves the following comment on my previous post:
Good post for discussion.Really very gud insight on spirtuality, I came across some good blogs on blogadda.com. Check out this link www.blogadda.com. Bye…..Take care
Read it well? Spir(i)tuality? Just in case you, like Deepanjali, didn’t read the previous post, it is a YouTube video of Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie parodying William Shakespeare.
Deepanjali, besides being penetratingly and perceptively intelligent, is also persevering. She leaves not one, but 4 comments. All as as relevant as the one I’ve block-quote-d. Just in case I might think of her as a quitter, she hunts out my (now in disuse) travel blog NH45, and leaves the same comment there.
It must be extremely difficult to be this original and diligent. Which is why, I think, she makes big money. Why, she might even top our old friend Karthik Kannan at this game.
Incidentally
Year #5 begins for Selective Amnesia. I was supposed to debut a new design and new other stuff today. But we all know how that turned out.
Aishwarya Rai may not get sexy. But this blog just might
Since we are not, can not, may not or ahem ‘able not’ to write in a way that is both entertaining and insightful (we must point out we have been both, and at times in the same post) enough to keep this little labour of blade, Selective Amnesia, alive and kicking, we invite you to do so. Or, using fewer words, ‘Do you want to Guest Blog at Selective Amnesia?’
Basic qualifications we look for in a potential guest blogger(or even, bloggeri. One must not be a misogynist)
- Write. Often, long and competently
- Distinguish between SelAm and Salem
- Swear eternal allegiance to the Man. (Where Man = Chandrachoodan)
- Disrespect all rules, including this one
- Know how to count beyond 5
The question might arise – ‘What’s in it for Uncle Sam, heh?’ We are not sure of Uncle Sam’s stand in this issue, but what you’ll get in return is the fame, popularity and did I mention fame? that comes from writing on a blog where google search referrals far outnumber referrals from other blogs. You also get to balance a chip on your shoulder.
If you can handle the gruelling deadlines (what?) and the large number of comments (well, yes, spam comments. But the operating word is comment) leave one here. Or mail us at the email id given to the right.
Edited and abridged too far
I’m through with it. All. No more short posts. No more throw-away posts.
Except this last one.
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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