no one pings each other anymore. remember, a month or two back, when haloscan installed trackback and we all rushed out to get it? back then, the world was bright shiny and full of hope and we all made sure to ping each other at even the slightest excuse. sometimes with even less than that (admit it, who didn't occasionally ping a random blog just to make them wonder). then the novelty wore off, the weather got warmer, the casualties spiked in iraq, a dog died in oklahoma. in short, the golden age ended and everything went to shit. how can we ping people in such a world?
so now no one bothers anymore. besides, the manual ping is just too much a pain in the ass. "no trackbacks" has become a permanent setting at the bottom of all of my posts. the only pings i ever get are from non-haloscan blogs where pinging is as easy as... well, as something that's really freakin' easy. but for those of us using blogger, the trackback age has come to an end. among the blogspot sites i visit, in blog after blog no tracks can be found.
i'm no better. i don't always ping other people, even when i should. i also skipped breakfast this morning and it's the most important meal of the day.
i blame society.
