The northlondonhippy

I’m let­ting you all down.

I’ve spent most of this month not post­ing any­thing on my blog. I’m sorry.

There are sev­eral fac­tors involved in this total lack of hippy par­tic­i­pa­tion this month, some I’ll share with you, oth­ers I will keep to myself.

I’ve been over­run by spam of late; com­ment spam. At its peak, I was receiv­ing over 300 com­ments daily, all linked to online poker or penis-pill web­sites. Fuck­ing delight­ful! Each spam com­ment would gen­er­ate an email to me, alert­ing me to the new com­ment. It was a real drag.

Com­ments are now, effec­tively turned off. You need to be reg­is­tered to leave com­ments, only there is no way to reg­is­ter. It’s a catch-22 aimed at foil­ing these nasty pieces of shit who want free adver­tis­ing on my site!

I recently read an arti­cle, which explained that spammed com­ments are left by liv­ing human beings, so they can type the weird let­ters into the box to prove they are not machines. Because broad­band and labour are now so cheap and com­puter knowl­edge is so wide-spread in so many far­away places, it’s eas­ier to pay some­one to do the spam­ming for you.

Pretty soon, they’ll be out­sourc­ing my blog to India and you’ll be read­ing my replace­ment, the newdel­hi­hippy. Progress marches for­ward, so watch out fuck­ers, your job will be next!

I did nearly fin­ish a lengthy entry on my own per­sonal xmas mem­o­ries, but never got around to fin­ish­ing it. Xmas has come and gone now, so it’s too late to post it. I’m going to save it for next year.

I also haven’t been around, because I’ve been work­ing loads and most of my Decem­ber shifts were clus­tered into the sec­ond half of the month. I’ve been choos­ing sleep over blog­ging. Again, sorry, but I’m still tired and could use even more sleep!

These days, I’m always tired. I think its old age catch­ing up to me. I don’t bounce back like I used to. Maybe I just need more sleep. I don’t know, but I dream of spend­ing 24 hours in bed, just to put some zzzzzzz’s on account.

That’s never going to happen.

It’s not just the hippy I’ve been neglect­ing, I’ve got other projects that haven’t had enough of my time. After the New Year, I’m going to make a con­certed effort to get back on track.

No, more than back on track, I’m going to take every­thing a lot fur­ther in 2007! Go me!

See, even at my age, self-delusion remains a true skill!

Here’s some good news for you Big Brother fans out there, the celebrity ver­sion kicks off on the 3rd of Jan­u­ary and this hippy is poised to pro­vide you with my own spe­cial brand of com­ment and analy­sis through­out this 5th series.

By far, one of the most pop­u­lar fea­tures in 2006 was my Big Brother col­umn. It would be sadis­tic of me not to give my loyal hip­py­fans what they crave! I am a boy who can’t say “no”!

There are all sorts of uncon­firmed rumours about who might be appear­ing and I’m plan­ning on pro­vid­ing you all with a pre­view before launch night. This Sunday’s papers should give us some more clues and of course, I’ll be mon­i­tor­ing many sources just for you!

So I’m still the hippy you all adore, espe­cially because I’m a com­plete media whore! Things will be pick­ing up here at the hippy, so come back often to see what I’ve got in store for you!

PS
Yes, this is post 497, only three more to go until I announce the big win­ner of my con­test. One lucky hip­py­fan will be win­ning ME for a week­end of soft drug use and inap­pro­pri­ate touching!

Click HERE for more details!

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