b ..... LOG

Here I am engaging in an activity called blogging posting to a blog. That’s LOG with a b in front of it. Since this is my first post here on IceBakes, I'll share some of what creates angst in my life as a way of introduction.

I swore that I would never engage in any activity that was named as part of this twenty second century of silly linguistic wordplay. I swore off the web trends as soon as I burned out on Facebook.

I don’t twitter, facebook, blog (oops), google, digg, post ytmnd’s...

I don’t use all the trendy new words and privately giggle whenever they’re dropped, repeatedly as if repeated use will conjure their underlying meaning into existence as some secret mantra chanted in whispers during a pagan ritual.

What words? I’ll give you my short list here, this one time, and then they shall never be spoken of again:

* Paradigm Shift;

* Web 2.0;

* E-Anything: (e-enablement, e-business, etc)
As an aside if you have a friend named Elisa, her name shall henceforth simply be Lisa;

* Long Tail:
Ya, it’s a neat concept, but now everyone has a napkin plan for how they will take over the ‘long tail’;

* At the end of the day:
This is a really noticeable play for time on the part of the perpetrator as it adds absolutely nothing of value to any thought;

* Like I Say/As I Say/Like I Said Before:
This one's a little obscure, like at the end of the day it's a stall for time to let one's brain catch up to your mouth...it's especially irritating when the person doesn't always say or didn't say before whatever it is they are purporting to have said...if that makes sense;

* Irregardless:
Just because we’re too stupid as a people to recognize that adding an IR in front of REGARDLESS while keeping the exact same meaning does absolutely nothing other than make the word longer doesn't mean it should be a word;

* L33T Speech: (woot, u2, WTG, 4TW, etc.)
I HATE getting l33t speech emails, that's what email filters and auto delete is for;

* Icebakes 10.0:
Adding a 10.0 is going to make it cooler? How?!

I’m certain I missed some. I’ll add them to the comments if I think of more...