While receiving little in the way of tangible benefits, blogging has turned out to be a great way to speak my mind and ultimately to relax… perhaps this is the reason I post entries the most when I’m the most busy! Other times though, mean people ruin the fun.
After getting all these hate letters from people who didn’t approve of what I thought were fairly tame commentaries on the compulsory Australian internet firewall, I decided to take an hour or so off this afternoon and address their concerns. This post is for the first email.
Having posted several entries on the Australian Government’s plan to implement a compulsory national internet filter, it seems I’ve unwittingly rattled a few nerves. For the first time since coming out as an atheist back in 2007 I’ve started receiving email about a series of posts here, all of them not good.
The footy buckling spring keyboard episode!
Getting hate messages a sign of honour; maturity by being able to laugh at yourself; news still being news if its not new; IRC and Twitter mudslinging whatnot; people getting snippy at me quoting David Letterman’s comments on Aussie Rules football; scoring points if you miss; making fun sounds with buckling spring keyboards; the awesomeness of Unicomp in the US of A and this thing called a sense of humour!
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Ruben’s MacBook Pro MagSafe power adaptor failing, using my retro iBook G3 to record the show, Rubenerd Hate Mail (from “the immature ruben?” user), and why do you delete if you believe what you wrote), and Ruben pretending to be a synthesiser.
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Hi! I'm Ruben Schade and this is my labour of love blog from beautiful Singapore and Sydney.
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