"i'm bosley"

I'm eager to report today's been the busiest day this blog has ever had. And only three of the hits were actually me. So without me that's 21 hits, in one day! But like I said the same counter is on my index and all those archive pages, and a lot of the hits are from people searching for something specific that I most likely didn't provide for them. So I added the meta tag to make search engines ignore both this page and all my archive pages. I also took the counter code off of most of the archive pages. So in theory from now on the only hits that register will be legitimate hits from actual blog readers and return visitors as opposed to unsuccessful Internet searchers.

I also have to report the first entry of my secondary blog I've named simply "Mysterious Short Story", a link is located to the left. It's for brainstorming a story I have mind but can't quite think of a title. I don't imagine much of anyone would find it very interesting but I've enabled the Atom syndication feature and "ping blogger.com" anyway, just for the heck of it. Tonight as of midnight I'll upload the blog with the official counter, Nedstat, enabled.

As exciting as those last two paragraphs were maybe I'll move on. Now I have no idea what to write about. Since I seem to be doing so much writing lately I was thinking about taking one or more writing classes at the college. There's "technical writing", about computer and stuff I'd imagine, then there's creative writing with short stories and plays or something. And finally another college course, in my time called "English 1B", involving a lot of writing but mostly reading novels from 300 hundred years ago in non-decipherable language. Writing argumentative essays without logical fallacy. A lot like the class I just took, English 1C. Seems like if I enjoy writing so much I should at least take a class and try to be better at it. Right? Too bad it's too late to start any of those creative or technical classes. There is one English 1B class I may be able to add.

I did think of a good idea for my computer setup. I found some software that will watch and record everything an install shield/setup program does to both your system and the registry, then when you uninstall the program it will do the same thing...and tell you how your system was modified and what is left over from the installation of the program.

Such an analysis can be used for both good and evil. For instance track changes in your registry to catch installations of trojan horses and spyware, as well as find out what sort of weird things the stupid uninstaller leaves behind on your system when it should really remove everything it put in. On the other hand some shareware programs expire after a set period of time but are merely disabled with a registry key or some other obscure place on the system. So by tracking this you can figure out what to change so the shareware never expires and you didn't pay for it. Now I would never promote such an idea of course, I'm mostly just curious to see if I could do something like that. Mainly I never actually use any one piece of shareware longer than a month or so anyway so I have no reason to try this work-around.

Though it pains me to write such a short entry after so many long ones, I want to go to bed. I hope you enjoyed this boring blog entry.

  ¶ 11:57 PM