October 27th, 2003

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Technology

A Little Known Fact About Me

I have never, ever, used an emoticon. Not even ironically.

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Sure you haven’t =^0

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i guess the creme de la creme in yaletown are too good for emoticons :P

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I find emoticons lazy and quick to use, but I generally try to avoid any internet ‘isms’ in my typing. One that I find can help is the tag, it comes in handy.

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uh…between ‘the’ and ‘tag’ I put [sarcasm] in tag borders and it vanished. Duh me.

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Hmm…that’s interesting about the tag dissappearing. I’ve just implemented Blacklist (http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/), to deal with my increasing comment spam problem. I wonder if that excises such tags. Let’s test:

[scrotum]

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Darren. Next time you log on, I have some interesting emoticons for you. They may make you think twice about their inherent value…

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