Another security breach on the blog today, as evidenced by the comments in the right-hand column. Unfortunately I went and replied to them, making the situation worse, but the idea that Bollywood stars are passing off photos of my home as theirs really upset me, and chivalry demanded that I defend poor Jenny Sharma from accusations of cosquel-ness (coskelity? I never know how to spell this).
The upshot is that Saith has been fired. My new IT advisor is Christine S’s nephew, who had the blog locked down again in minutes. What’s even better is that he did it all over the phone, which saved me from having to explain to Hazel why a ten year-old Indian boy was poking around inside our computer.
The commenters were named “Jumbie” and “chennette”, however, so I probably shouldn’t take them too seriously. Why, by the way, do Trinidadian bloggers insist on giving themselves silly names? What normal person would want to be named after a big, pale, furry rat, a malevolent spirit, a fruit that ties up your tongue and a kind of devil? This trend doesn’t seem to be limited to Trinidad, however, as I’ve discovered bloggers in other CARICOM states called things like Mad Bull and Titlayo. Get a spine, Caribbean bloggers. Even Raymond Ramcharitar has the guts to blog under his own name.
4 Comments
August 27, 2007 at 5:32 am
I totally agree with you, how could a battieman call himself BOOM?
August 27, 2007 at 9:45 am
As you yourself conceal your true identity behind the name “manbeater”, you’re hardly in a position to question another’s right to do the same, now are you?
August 27, 2007 at 4:25 pm
[...] somewhat unpleasant comments on the blog again this morning, I summoned Christine S’s nephew (my then IT advisor) to Whitehall. The ten year-old took his cool time to arrive, and when he did, I must say I was [...]
August 27, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Again I must agree with you Patos.
We all do need to keep our identity a secret from time to time, after all this is the internet world…can’t be trusting everyone we chat to, can we?