Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:02:13AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Explain? Is your IP being blocked by the IRC ops due to your being a Tor exit node? No. It is being blocked because it's a middleman node. Which shows that IRC ops know shit about Tor. -- Eugen* Leitl a

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Udhay Shankar N wrote [at 01:15 PM 6/25/2007] : http://www.techtree.com/India/News/The_Webs_Ten_Most_Irritating_Words/551-81821-643.html The Web's Ten Most Irritating Words Techtree News Staff Email Print Jun 24, 2007 Can you believe that the World Wide Web has actually spawned words

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-27 Thread Aditya Kapil
The derivation is a bit banal. Not quite Ambrose Bierce :-) Adit. On 6/27/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why does the word blog evoke such feelings of hate?

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-27 Thread Casey O'Donnell
On 6/25/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sent along primarily for the inclusion of 'blogosphere' and 'blog' itself. :-) So blogosphere is annoying, but I don't really think blog is, other than that it's kind of like cool at this point, all the squares are using it. All of those

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-27 Thread Deepa Mohan
I don't understand this /me business, when a simple I would suffice...why do geeks use it all the time? Is there a software background to that? SMS language...alas, here to stay, I think... do U hate it, 2? Deepa. On 6/27/07, Casey O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/25/07, Udhay Shankar

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan wrote: I don't understand this /me business, when a simple I would suffice...why do geeks use it all the time? Is there a software background to that? Yes, it is irc usage, which tends to be cool where sms / AIM type usage is regarded as uncool When you type /me into an irc

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-27 Thread Lawnun
/me is an old IRC relic that still lives on through certain IM clients. Or at least it did in Trillian. :) On 6/27/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand this /me business, when a simple I would suffice...why do geeks use it all the time? Is there a software background to

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:28:35PM -0400, Lawnun wrote: /me is an old IRC relic that still lives on through certain IM clients. Or at least it did in Trillian. :) I can't IRC. For some reason the server operators can't tell the difference between Tor exit nodes and middlemen.

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Eugen Leitl wrote: [ on 12:26 AM 6/28/2007 ] I can't IRC. For some reason the server operators can't tell the difference between Tor exit nodes and middlemen. Explain? Is your IP being blocked by the IRC ops due to your being a Tor exit node? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-27 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 28 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't IRC. For some reason the server operators can't tell the difference between Tor exit nodes and middlemen. Explain? Is your IP being blocked by the IRC ops due to your being a Tor exit node? Freenode has some less than optimal ways of dealing

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Alok G. Singh wrote: Freenode has some less than optimal ways of dealing with Tor[1] for instance. Then again, you need to register to be able to QUERY, so perhaps the point is moot. I love the way they tell you how to do the right thing and then encourage you not to do it .. /mode

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-26 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: blog is my #1 on the annoyance scale .. funny thing, sounds like blob in the sense of something sticky and loathsome you step on without warning, and its sound, the way it is pronounced, sounds similarly disgusting too (diarrhetic, almost) Given the verbal

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-26 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 27 Jun 2007 5:29 am, Venkat Mangudi wrote: So why does the word blog evoke such feelings of hate? It's a stupid sounding word reminiscent of the sound heard at the start of a particularly large and disgusting vomit in a previously serene and clean environment. shiv

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-26 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 27 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why does the word blog evoke such feelings of hate? I guess it is the same as when management speaks about 'leveraging' and 'competencies'. It's not the word, per se, but the person who is using them. And it isn't the right thing to do either. I tuned

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N wrote: Sent along primarily for the inclusion of 'blogosphere' and 'blog' itself. :-) blog is my #1 on the annoyance scale .. funny thing, sounds like blob in the sense of something sticky and loathsome you step on without warning, and its sound, the way it is pronounced, sounds

[silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-25 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Sent along primarily for the inclusion of 'blogosphere' and 'blog' itself. :-) Udhay http://www.techtree.com/India/News/The_Webs_Ten_Most_Irritating_Words/551-81821-643.html The Web's Ten Most Irritating Words Techtree News Staff Email Print Jun 24, 2007 Can you believe that the World