Haiku #42: Selling Out

Who, me? You don’t say
I’m merely playing my part
Lyrics started it

By having no recurring visitors, I just convinced myself that I’m allowed to do like this. Don’t mind the advertisements; and if you do, I suppose you wouldn’t come back anyway. I’m going all-organic search engine whore.

Haiku #41: The Algorithm

Mystic algorithm
Banned by Chinese firewall
Tell me who killed Jeeves

The algorithm is banned in China. This is not the algorithm. I figure that I owe the great web-comic xkcd too much to pass up on this semi-Google bomb. Perhaps I’m also doing hapless victims of the Algorithm a favor in helping them find xkcd, too.

Haiku #40: Dvorak

All my keys displaced
I cannot find anything
Yet, it’s cool. Dvorak.

I just started learning. This is short since I’m using dvorak.

Haiku #39: What Haiku are Not

Haiku are not just
Sentences of seventeen
Syllables three-split

I’ve noticed that a lot of people decide to express (irrelevant?) opinions in the form of haiku. I’m guilty of it, too — the fact that only 17 syllables are needed is very attractive, since you do not need to put up an elaborate argument. Can’t people put the least bit of energy into making their haiku readable?

sound of the milk tooth
falling from her mouth onto
the bed woke us up

From Thumping Beet. (I don’t want to point fingers; this is just what got me thinking. No offense, Julie.) Seriously, I had to read three times to realize that it was only one sentence.

Haiku #38: To Err

To err is human
I thought that Google was not
Vanessa revealed

Even Google can make mistakes, although not that critical ones. A certain Vanessa Fox forgot to close a tag in the an offixial Google blog. I don’t know whether it’s nice to know that the Google employees can make mistakes or not, especially considering the future of this planet probably lies in their hands.

Haiku #37: Biphasic Sleep

How can you sleep well
When you waste your life with sleep?
Change — Go Biphasic

Three days ago, I started a big project that I have been thinking about for some months now: biphasic sleep. I first read about polyphasic sleep — dividing sleep up in six segments a day — which seemed extremely controversial. However, there’s a thing called biphasic sleep, in which you divide your sleep into two segments a day. The biphasic sleeping schedule is designed to maximize (well, increase) your effective sleep.

If sleep was like Dungeons & Dragons, then polyphasic sleepers would be the munchkins who ruin the game, and biphasic sleepers would be the people like me, who just like not to suck.

So far I’m feeling great, and I am sleeping around 7 hours a day. My goal is 6 hours, and I am certain that I will reach it in a few weeks’ time. I blog about my venture in the land of effective sleep.

Haiku #36: From the Shadows

Reading log at night
Ref: I come from the shadows
Spoofed referers scare

I was looking through the log from this blog, and found a referer from “I come from the shadows”. Haha. Funny. It ruins the purpose of the referer-field, though. Please stop.

Haiku #35: Consoles Reviewed

First came three-sixty
Hot like burning Dell laptops
Green, mutated X

Then PlayStation 3
2^8 kilogram apples
I could buy for that

Enter saviour, Wii
Nunchuck and Twilight Princess
Wii Move You — my heart

I’ll probably wait for Super Smash Bros for Wii before buying the wonderful console anyway, but I’m still biased. Who would not be happy with a near-wireless Nunchuk?

This post was written as part of ProBlogger’s group-writing project on reviews and predictions.

Haiku #34: Dean Hunt

Viral marketing.
Lies provoke and bait backlinks.
Dean Hunt. Smart bastard.

I read about Dean Hunt’s so-called bizarre Google request — he’s gotten a request from an un-named company to climb down a few notches in the Google SERPs for an undisclosed keyword. Are we supposed to believe this? Just a few days earlier, he posted that he actually was going to start a viral-marketing campaign.

Even Slashdot covered the story, though it lacks any evidence at all. Sorry Dean, but i nofollowed that link for a reason (as if it’d matter now, when you’re cemented in the first spot).

Anyway, it was cool in a twisted way. I’m just bitter because I didn’t come up with it first.

Pipe Dreams

A sudden flame in driest hearts
Spreads fatal sparks
Your soul ignited too

A mortal gloss to suffocate
My acid tears
My earthly bounds unleashed

The beating drums of distant worlds
Shall never quench
Our burning dreams

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