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somebody axed me the other day: why troublonia? why name this blog that? what does it mean?
i thought to myself, surely i've explained this on the blog at some point or other? well yes. i did. and i found it. but it seems i meant to make it into a FAQ and never got around to it. so here we go.
so here's what i wrote earlier with some additions:
Frequently Unquestioned Answers about Troublonia:
what is troublonia:
when we were young kippers, the missus and i had this joke about travelling. when you go travelling, you always go to troublonia. no matter where you're heading, you'll need to detour through it.
troublonia is lovely little place. the national dish is sand with a giardia garnish. the sandwich meat -- troubologna -- is green, but not by design. the police are corrupt and your bus is cancelled and the currency is computed in base seven and all the toilets are backed up.
all of them.
and the mosquitos! right by your ear buzzing all night except for the one which is feasting on your inner thigh. or is that the desk clerk? hard to tell.
so you go there why, exactly?
troublonia is oddly what makes your destination worthwhile.
if you didn't have to go through the hell of troublonia to get to get to paradise, paradise would soon be overrun with exactly the type of people you're travelling to avoid. it's the gauntlet you run to escape.
why name the blog troublonia?
i suppose i had some reason initially. something about how this is where i want to work out ideas so i can get somewhere better. something stupid like that. an explanation thought up after i chose the name, honestly.
how do you pronounce it?
trouble-oh-knee-uh
what sort of blog is this
a personal blog for the most part. i write about whatever i think is interesting at the moment. travel, film, my life, politics, the limits of religion and science, why DRM pisses me off, and being an ex-pat. i rarely post pictures of britney spears' hoo-ha, but you might get lucky.
what's the deal with commenting?
please feel free! as long as you're not selling penis pumps i'd love to hear what you have to add.
would you like some money?
sure! thanks! you can paypal me anything you want at xz at xzackly dot com.
don't you know how to spell?
usually. i'm trying to adjust to the olde british methode since i now live in australia. if you think i've misspelled something, just assume that it's either the alternate spelling or that you're wrong, whichever is easier.
can i read this blog in an rss feed reader?
yes. i have two feeds. there is an xml feed which i recommend using because it updates when comments are added. that feed is: http://www.xzackly.com/troublonia/index.xml. there is also an rdf feed which doesn't update with comments here: http://www.xzackly.com/troublonia/index.rdf.
what blog software do you use?
i use movabletype v.3.14 because i'm too lazy to upgrade to the newest version and 3.14 is, like, pi. so that's worth something. i designed the site myself and taught myself to do the coding and i'm not that geeky so you could probably figure it out if you wanted.
as a police officer i'm concerned about the illegal things you describe doing in these posts. can you explain?
no problem, officer. i sometimes exaggerate my activities to seem "hip" to the "kids." i would never use the internets for evil. i think the war on terrorism is the best thing borat ever thought up.
what about my other questions?
what am i, psychic? ask away.
