What is Tumblr?
ok, now i just look like a technological retard. let me rephrase: "what is a tumblr used for?" of the few tumblrs that i've seen (mostly linked from pictures that friends post elsewhere), it seems like you mostly post pictures from other tumblrs. i'm being completely serious when i say i've never seen a picture on a tumblr that hasn't been taken from another tumblr which got it from yet another tumblr. oh yes, and quotes too: lots of quotes taken from all over the place. but not much stuff written by the blogger personally. i just find it quite weird that user-generated content becomes a minority when it comes to tumblrs. this is strictly my personal first impression, but tumblr seems just like facebook's "like" button for everything; if you like it, post it on your tumblr. i guess like twitter, it fills a niche for microblogging, but it just isn't the same as an actual blog for me. i guess i'm sticking to regular ol' blogger with regular ol' default templates. well, the second one isn't exactly a result of anything i said, it's just that i'm too lazy/noob to change it.
yes, maybe i am a technological retard. and i have the NS phone to prove it.
ok, random thought train coming through: i have always been of the opinion that suffering is relative, and that happiness is inversely proportional to suffering. i mean, even as the world as a whole becomes a better place to live in, it doesn't advance at the same pace for everyone, and those whose lives improve slower than everyone else will always be suffering compared to the rest. it's the same argument for how poverty cannot be eliminated because even among rich people, you have the richer rich and the poorer rich. and since you would naturally be less happy if you suffer more, that would mean that we can't have a world where everyone is happy, right?
well, i realised that this argument only applies to physical suffering, and hence only material, superficial happiness. who can say that the malnourished child in the third-world country who finds a stray football to kick around is not as happy as the city kid who gets a PSP for his birthday? ultimately, although the will to be happy can be strongly affected by our circumstances, it is still up to us to be happy or not. we can all be equally happy if we're content with what we have. to put it bluntly, we can all be happy if we all lower our standards enough :D
it seems that whenever a new and powerful social network develops, there will be people willing to exploit it for internet traffic. first there was email spam which can send itself, then there were msn phishers that started conversations with contacts while the user was offline, and after that there were facebook apps which spread their own url through status updates. now, perhaps the most potent spam virus yet has surfaced on twitter. you can't even protect yourself now by not clicking on the link: it automatically retweets itself if you so much as happen to have your mouse cursor within the window, and it turns the entire window into a button such that any panic-fueled clicking at the "undo" button will redirect you to another website. this time the virus only redirects you to an error page, but i have a feeling that it was only a test run, and soon there'll be viruses popping up that force you to go to seedy "risk-free forex trading" sites >.> i guess it's to be expected, especially for twitter, which has always been structurally iffy in my opinion. oh well, i shall abandon it for a week or so until they clear this huge fail-whale.
i can't really say i feel absolutely prepared for H3 maths tomorrow, but it's the most prepared i'll ever be :/ and then i'll get my one evening's rest before school starts again on thursday! :D (this is what i mean by lowering our standards) hopefully there's no H3 lesson on thursday; honestly i don't know if i'll be able to face them so soon.
thinking about a blog redesign/overhaul that may or may not happen after A levels.
