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Wordpress 2.0.1
February 3, 2006 | Filed under: Bitching, Educate Me

“Marry me girl, be my fairy to the world, be my very own constellation. A teenage bride with a baby inside getting high on information. And buy me a star in a boulevard, it's Californication. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication”

The days of version 1.5.somethingold are over. I finally got the courage to move up to the new world of themed wordpress. It’s a little scary, but I’ve got my Wags here to cuddle if it gets too much. Why fix something that’s not broken and I’d grown incredibly attached to? Spam. That evil, evil bastard kept clogging up my comments and I got the shits with continuously deleting the bastards. Yeah, I put up with that for about a year. Things may be slightly broken, but you can all deal with it until I’m used to fixing this thing up, m’kay.

Another new thing is that if you want to comment, you have to register an account or you’re not allowed! This is another anti-spam strategy. Plus, if you’re interested enough in what I write to want to tell me something, you’ll sign up. Hooray!

Back to school. It’s been… interesting. I was thrilled to pieces about the new timetable (there’s something about memorising a timetable and writing it up neatly in my wonderfully organised diary that gets me all excited), even though they’ve rigged it so that I don’t have any free periods at the beginning/end of the day, meaning I don’t get flexible attendance. Another thing I don’t like about it is that I now have English every day of the week, rather than having an English-free Wednesday - as well as having a new English teacher that’s from a local comprehensive highschool. She treats all of us like we’re at a comprehensive highschool standard, too. No I do not want to listen to Mozart and write down what I think it sounds like, and I don’t want to be talked to like a sub-standard student that takes a full 40 minute period to write what I think a poem is about. Die, woman!

You know what’d be funny? If the everything on the internet really was like it happened for Heather at Dooce. I’d get expelled for insulting the English teacher and everyone that I dislike at school.

Composed by Melissa at 11:01pm ·

2 Comments on "Wordpress 2.0.1"

I find that even though 2.0.x’s Akismet feature stops the spam, or at least catches it, the only method that really stopped them from even attempting to post was closing the comments after a few weeks. I haven’t had any since that started.

Back to school, indeed. I had no idea the transition from Year 10 to Year 11 was so intense. But I do understand the excitement with new timetables! Somehow my school makes it a thing that at least everyone with free/study periods has one at the end/beginning of the day.

Personally, what I hate more than incompetent English teachers are teachers who think we know everything simply because it’s selective and treat it as such. (Hah! I think I’d be expelled too if that ever happened. Who knows how many teachers I’ve called incompetent.)

Comment by Jen — Saturday, February 4, 2006 @ 10:05am
Congrats on uploading the new Wordpress (and mastering themes!) :D Anything to stay a step ahead of spam. Ugh, I long for the good old days where spam was few and far between.

Good luck making it through the school year. On the up side, nothing you do in Year 11 counts towards the HSC, so think of it as practice and preparation. I’m sorry that you don’t have any English-free days. English is the subject of death. *stabstab* Free periods will become a nice way to relax (if you have friends with the same frees, it’s exceeding difficult to get any study done. ^^;;) although it sucks that you don’t have any early days. Hang in there, ne!

While the stress from a selective high school is a bit much, it would be even more irritating to be treated like that. I hope your teacher adjusts soon. :x Hehe, if schools expelled students for being uncomplimentary about teachers, everyone with a blog/xanga/livejournal would be long gone. :P

Comment by Desiree — Sunday, February 5, 2006 @ 8:52pm

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