{"id":394,"date":"2005-09-23T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=394"},"modified":"2005-09-23T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T17:51:08","slug":"decisions-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Decisions, Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some time now, I’ve been considering closing this web log. I don’t post as regularly as I used to, and 99% of my comments are spam, which is a hassle to delete even as easy as WordPress makes it. I spent this morning deleting such spam, after spending last night and the night before doing the same thing, and in my fervor of also going into some of those old posts and disabling comments and pings, I got a little confused and accidentally deleted a genuine comment on my last post.<\/p>\n

That was the last straw.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t help that my site was hacked some time ago — the index page replaced with some kind of message, like a tag made by a graffiti artist. I just don’t have the time or patience to deal with people who have far too much time and not enough sex. I have better things to do, bigger fish to fry, and it’s just not worth the trouble to deal with the parakeet poop of the net.<\/p>\n

Over the next few days or weeks or whatever, in between life and work, I’ll be looking at my options for this site. In the meantime, I won’t be posting for a while (if at all, any more). I will leave comments open on this post for now in case anyone has anything to say, but I’ll be closing comments elsewhere as I go.<\/p>\n

To the good citizens of the net, thank you for reading and commenting, especially in this journal’s peak of popularity a few years ago. I should have ended with a bang then instead of allowing this to fizzle and wither away, forced to an early blog retirement as I find myself too busy or too indifferent to continue.<\/p>\n

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For some time now, I’ve been considering closing this web log. I don’t post as regularly as I used to, and 99% of my comments are spam, which is a hassle to delete even as easy as WordPress makes it. I spent this morning deleting such spam, after spending last night and the night before doing the same thing, and in my fervor of also going into some of those old posts and disabling comments and pings, I got a…<\/p>\n

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