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When I first started this blog, I wasn't quite sure what I was getting into. I had toyed around with blogging before, but never went anywhere with it. And those blogs were related to a topic I really love -- game development. I had no idea what I would post on a personal blog. But I had a lot on my mind that I wanted to share with the world. Recently, I read a piece somewhere online that made the antagonistic claim that blogging makes anyone with an opinion think that what they have to say is important. I know I'm just one little guy in this wide world of people. Blogging doesn't make me any more important than anyone else out there. But it does give me the opportunity to easily push my voice beyond the people I come in contact with each day. I don't need an agent to seek a publishing deal, I don't need to be branded 'expert' by a news anchor, and I don't need to work my way from the mail room to the editor's office at a major newspaper. I can sit at my desk, type what I think, and with the click of the mouse it is available for the wired world to see. Through this blog I have found like-minded people, established contact with old friends, and angered and offended some people as well. Whether you like what I write or don't, agree with it or disagree, or don't care a whit, at least you have read what was on my mind. Without this medium known as the 'blogosphere', that never would have happened at all. That's why I continue to blog. So here's a little retrospective of the first year: The blog started out at Blogger, but I moved to paid hosting and adopted Wordpress as the platform at the end of April. The first post, dated Jan 15, '06, was quite a short one. Titled, The Truth is Out There, it was about my participation in the SETI@home project. I don't have any statistics for the 4 months I spent at Blogger, but following are some interesting stats since the move: Top 10 Posts RegCure Key XoftSpySE and RegCure RegCure Key Morons Larry King Interviews the George and Laura Hugh Jackman in Seoul Gaming Addiction in Korea Spam Karma 2 Zaps Comment Spam Lessons Learned From Gordon Freeman A Message For Republicans What's More Difficult Than Giving Up Smoking? The top three posts are all related. The post about XoftSpySE and RegCure brought a lot of hits to the site from Google and Yahoo, from the keyword 'regcure key' or some variation thereof. Since I am very strongly against software piracy, and the large majority of people using such search terms are very likely trying to pirate the software, I created the RegCure Key post as a message to them. When that brought more hits, I wrote the RegCure Key Morons post as a follow up. The RegCure Key post still gets the most hits, 5 times more than the #2 post. I don't consider them 'quality traffic' though. That brings us to the next category: The Most Attacked Post: RegCure Key I can't count the number of comments I had to delete from that thread -- one after another, calling me every name imaginable. After deleting several comments from the same person, he made another that I didn't delete:

Your a closet Faggot who can’t take any shit…. Typical of your sort, as soon as someone gives you shit as opposed to you giving them shit you crumble and remove the posts. YOU ARE A SYPHILLIS RIDDEN INSIGNIFICUNT WHO STILL DRAGS THEIR KNUCKLES ON THE GROUND!

You can read that comment, and my response, beneath the post. But I wanted to highlight it here because it's an example of the kind of comments that I deleted. It's actually not as harsh as most. In my response, I mocked his grammar. A bit further down the page I was reprimanded for poking fun at the moron:

good job Aldacron I’m sure you showed pirate by complaining that his grammar was bad. Some people have better things to do with their time then give a rats ass about their grammar. This act of insulting him (if thats what you want to call it) would point out the reason why nerds get a bad name. And i mean nerd in the highest of regards I am a computer science major, but people like you are the reason why the stereotype of “nerds” lives on. That guys wont care if you correct his grammar try saying something smart, or persuasive. Not something that makes you look like you have nothing better to do with your time. Word can do what you did. Try being intelligent.

Prime examples of how far evolution has yet to go. The Most Misunderstood Post: Muhammad was an Idiot If you read more than one or two posts on this blog, you will know that I like to call people 'morons' and 'idiots' when they have views I strongly disagree with. You may also note that I am often sarcastic. This post fell just shy of the top 10 at number 11. The title is certainly one to incite a strong reaction. In retrospect, that's probably why the post was so misunderstood. It was intended to be not an attack on Muhammad or Islam, but an attack on non-muslims who would rather sacrifice their freedom of expression than to offend the followers of Islam. The title was intended to reinforce that stance -- I can say anything I want about Muhammad because I'm a free man and I'm not a Muslim. Unfortunately, the sarcasm in the post was lost. It's hard enough to get sarcasm across in writing as it is, but with that particular title I can understand (now) how easy it would be to misinterpret what I said. Reading the post the way I intended, it should be clear what I mean. But missing the sarcasm, reading it from the point of view that it is an anti-muslim post, it is easy to interpret it as a verbal attack on Muslims. I tried to explain my intention in the comment thread, but I don't know if I was clear or not. At first, I was quite shocked that anyone would misunderstand it. I have not edited the post, nor will I. I also do not intend to delete it. I will leave it there as is, because I still mean what I wrote. But also it is a reminder to myself that conveying a point with the written word, particularly to a broad audience, is very different than doing the same with the spoken word. As I said in the comments, I don't care if people disagree with me, but I feel terrible if they do so because they misunderstood me. In another post with a similarly in-your-face title made just 11 days before the one above, Bush Should Die and Mohammed was a Moron, in addition to demonstr ating that I can't agree with myself on how to spell Muhammad, I put into words my anger at the current world situation. It didn't generate any controversy. No comments, no emails, no accusations of being anti-Muslim or a bigoted redneck. Either I was much clearer in my message there, or it just didn't offend anyone. I don't recall what exactly was the motivation behind that post, but it was something I read or saw in the news that just really made me angry. I have been accused of falling victim to the Western media's portrayal of Islam. Really, I understand that not all Muslims are terrorists. But there's no doubt in my mind that the fundamentalist movement is growing and that the actions of the Western governments have done a lot to move it along. And that's a nice segue into the next category: Most Meaningful Post: My Religious Evolution and the Atheist Revolution It took a very long time for me to finally solidify my religious beliefs. This post describes how I went from a child raised in a baptist family to being an atheist. In my twenties, I took to calling myself 'agnostic', but I was still in a transitory phase then -- one foot stuck in my religious past and one foot in the realm of atheism. The past couple of years really accelerated the move forward. Now, I proudly call myself a Bright. This particular post is a sort of milestone for me, a monumental landmark. I had just discovered Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett. Their work opened up a door for me that I had long been standing in front of. Now I feel liberated. Out of all the posts I wrote in 2006, this one holds the most meaning. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I could go on with the busiest month, the lightest  month, most comments, or other such. But I won't. I'm looking forward to continuing to share my opinions with any who will listen. A great many of the posts of 2006 were on politics. While I do hope to write more about Korea and the life of an expat, my disapproval of the Bush administration policies and the outrageous war he misled us into surely won't let me shut up about politics. Hardly a day goes by that I don't see or hear something related to Bush that infuriates me. So whether or not you agree with me, thanks for reading and for making this activity so enjoyable. I look forward to comments from readers, particularly those that want to debate a point of view. I will, however, continue to delete any comments that are nothing more than strings of expletives. But no matter who you are or what you think, as long as you have something coherent to say I welcome it!

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