Tumblr is simple, easy and posting something is just so quick partially due to the quick dashboard and limited, but sufficient formatting options. Making a post here on wordpress.com seems long, complicated and slow in comparison, but there are more options and I can create pages and customise far, far more.

And there are other differences too, for example tumblr barely has comments or commenters. Infact, the option isn’t even there by default and it has to be added via services such as Haloscan, Intense Debate or Disqus. However, people reblog posts a lot which is probably as it’s made so easy with the software. It does sometimes make me wonder if people just reblog for the sake of reblogging, but that’s a whole different story.

One thing I like about the lack of comments is that there are also less or practically no spambots posting comments about porn or drugs/medicine which I find on a daily basis here. For example these are today’s comments about drugs caught in Akismet:

• Adipex – Appetite surpressant to help dieting.
• Carisoprodol – Muscle relaxant.
• Cialis – Against impotence.
• Codeine – An opiate.
• Cyclobenzaprine – Muscle relaxant.
• Effexor – Antidepressant.
• Fioricet – Painkiller particularly for headaches.
• Flexeril – Muscle relaxant.
• Paxil – Antidepressant.
• Propecia – Against male problems such as prostate cancer, hairloss, etc.
• Ritalin – Against ADD.
• Tadalafil – Against impotence.
• Tenuate – Appetite surpressant to help dieting.
• Tramadol – Painkiller for intense pain.
• Valium – It just does everything..
• Valtrex – Against herpes.
• Vicodin – A paracetamol.
• Wellbutrin – It does loads including antidepressant.
• Xanax – Against anxiety, panic attacks.
• Zanaflex – Muscle relaxant.
• Zovirax – Against herpes.

Do people actually buy these off the internet? Seriously?

Exactly a year ago I made a post about some msn conversations and how much they annoy me. I posted an example of a conversation with someone I didn’t have much contact to apart from having some completely pointless conversations with..

NAME says (18:14): good evening
Cat ftw says (18:14): Hey.
NAME says (18:15): how was your christmas?
Cat ftw says (18:15): Not too bad, how was yours?
NAME says (18:15): yeah not bad at all thanks
Cat ftw says (18:15): Good.
NAME says (18:16): so how have you been?
Cat ftw says (18:16): Can’t really complain. What about you?
NAME says (18:17): fine thanks
NAME says (18:17): same old really
Cat ftw says (18:17): That’s not too bad then.
Cat ftw says (18:18): What can I do for you?

How surprised was I when I looked through Akismet spam to discover this comment on said post:

What the…?

Cat

In Gaming:

• Assassin’s Creed finally [?] out this week

  The wait is over and the game is finally out.

• Mass Effect Launch trailer

  The Mass Effect launch trailer is out and makes me want to play the game even more.

• Review: Splinter Cell Double Agent

  Looking through old files on my PC, I’ve come across this, a review of Splinter Cell Double Agent I wrote for Ignition in November last year.

In TV:

• One Tree Hill

  First there was Dawson’s Creek, then the OC and somewhere in between there is One Tree Hill.

In Blog:

• Consider it blogged – Why Bloggers can’t be trusted

  Found during my travels in the blogsphere.

• Blog Community Writing Project Update 1

  Just a little reminder, the Community writing project is underway and you have until this weekend to submit your entries.

• Blog community writing project.

  This is inspired by Sha’s suggestion over on Matt’s blog who hasn’t blogged in quite a while

• You know, I know you’re here..

  I’m a bit like you.

• New look

  So I finally wanted to be different and distinguish myself from most other wordpress.com users by getting the CSS upgrade and using a different theme.

In life:

• Still bored…

  This is more or less a continuation of my other post a few days ago in which I said I was feeling really ill.

• Bored

  I’m simply bored of being ill now.

And everything else:

• Couple of things

  All of these have been sitting on my desktop for weeks and don’t really warrant an extra post.

• Some Facebook, a bit of Myspace.

  Pretty much everyone these days is registered on a social networking site and more or less active.

Cat

Gee, thanks for telling me I should stop spam!

Via Halolcats.

More one for the Halo fans! ;)

I wish I remembered where this was from, I have no idea. The above is true for all FPS games though!

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And via Sulz, What’s your blogs reading level? Mine is:

I’m still not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing though?

Cat

I’ve moved, watched Heroes [amongst other stuff] and played too much Halo 3. This blog also has a new domain – carocat.co.uk

• Blame Halo 3

  This is an excellent parody on people that are playing too much Halo 3, myself included. Oh and as we’re on the subject of Halo 3, head over to my new ‘My Halo 3‘ page which has my stats and some screenshots. Cat EDIT: Came across the lyrics as well now. Enjoy!

• I’m going to be busy in the next few months…

  … playing many games.Yep, it’s that time of year again, the Christmas rush is under way and many promising games are coming out. Sadly there are also way too many games I am looking forward to play, not to mention all the games that I am still playing, including Project Gotham Racing 4 and of…

• So it’s been a while

  I will personally prosecute everyone that says moving house is easy. It really is not. Couple that with my mobile breaking and me being ill and I can safely say it’s been a ‘fun’ time. Technically I’m still ill, I’ll need a few more days to get my energy back, but at least most of [...]

• Heroes

  Every year various TV stations are competing for the viewers by bringing newer and bigger things to our screens. Some raise to cult status withing weeks, others are a little slower to capture the viewers hearts.I always seem to be catching on to the hype late. There was Lost which I gotten bored of…

• Welcome to http://carocat.co.uk

  As Ashish already pointed out [and he noticed within minutes!] this blog now has a new domain and no longer includes the .wordpress.com.I bought carocat.co.uk quite a while ago, mainly to reserve it as carocat.com was already taken and I wanted to make sure that this one is mine, especially as I…

• I have the keys!

  As of yesterday I finally have the keys and can start moving and setting up furniture. Not too sure if the actual move is something to look forward to, but the final result will be worth it. View of the fireplace and the mirror above it! Currently I am aiming to have fully moved by Tuesday, [...]

Cat

I’ve had the clustr map on my blog ever since I can remember and completely forgot looking at it for a long time.

Click here to view a larger version.

Looking at it now, I am surprised just how many people from all over the world have been to my blog and I wanted to share some stats:

In the last 13 months of this blog’s existence it’s had:

• 107,180 total page views with a best day of 3,501 views.
• 269 posts [Have I really posted that much?!]
• 104 categories.
• 2,167 comments [About two thirds of those are probably my responses!]
• 22,301 spam comments caught by Akismet.

And all that with me being absent for about four of those thirteen months!

Cat

May I ask that everyone who I normally comment on regularly checks their Akismet spam to see if any of my comments ended up in there and then consequently de-spam me. Thank you.

I have contacted support, but not received an answer yet.

I still think that Akismet is great and the amount of spam it catches alone on my blog is amazing.

Cat