— aka.spvn

So being stuck without a camera phone for these two years has sure been a bummer, but I’m holding out for the iPhone 6 (imagine what kind of wizardry it’ll have by then). Of course I don’t exactly NEED a camera phone, I hardly take pictures anyway. But it would seriously be cool if I had a camera phone just to interact with QR barcodes.

I’ve seen QR codes everywhere but had no idea what these weird, odd shapes were supposed to be for. It’s not until recently that I realised you could take a picture of these weird black and white squares and your phone would actually react to it. It’s like a whole separate language for mobile phones. Then I thought only huge manufacturers used QR codes on their products or something, but making your own QR code is actually so easy with a simple QR generator.

A little history, QR (which actually stands for “Quick Response” because it’s meant to be decoded at high speeds) codes were actually first created by Toyota (why a car company of would need to invent a whole new barcode standard is beyond me) way back in 1994. Fast forward to today and QR codes are on plenty of things (e.g.), we just don’t tend to see them. Similar to how our eyes gloss over barcodes on products without giving them a second look, we just assume QR codes to be some weird random crap that’s beyond us.

But QR codes of today can encode all sorts of cool stuff in them, unlike those boring old barcodes. Take a picture of one of them, and your phone will automatically direct you to the URL that was encoded in it. Take a photo of another one and your phone will just start dialing a phone number. Another code will load up a map of the address specified in the code. etc. So awesome!

And to think girls use phone cameras to take photos of themselves. What a waste!

Unfortunately it seems I’ve lost interest in blogging here any longer. It’s almost impossible to gain any form of exposure for a small, simple blog like mine, meaning most of what I post won’t get read anyway. Yes, I know there are ways to spread word about my blog, but besides spamming the link all over the Internet (something which I’m definitely not going to do), I don’t see any other way. Sure, the stuff here ain’t particularly exciting or interesting, but it’s partly because I simply don’t have the incentive to write much here, seeing as how nobody will read it anyway.

That doesn’t mean I’m going to let this blog die. I have a feeling it’ll come in handy one day. Even if it means I gotta pay US$35 or so per year just to maintain the server and domain, I think I’ll do it. However, the future of this blog remains uncertain.
*sad face*

So, being busy with setting up my third blog and maintaining all three blogs of mine, I haven’t had much time to write more on this blog, thus a drop in the number of readers would hardly be surprising. Still, I was quite shocked when I logged into my admin panel and was greeted with this graph:

Seriously? A steady drop in number of hits? I mean sure I haven’t been updating as much as before, but I never expected that to reflect in a steady drop in number of hits to this blog. In fact, at the “peak” of 8 views on 6 feb, I hadn’t posted anything, but I did do so on 8th Feb, when I got like 4 views the entire day. Sure I’m used to having pretty low number of hits on my blog, even though I have had sudden spike at times, but I’ve never seen anything like this before. My graph usually fluctuates like mad, as can be seen in the darkened part.

It seems like I really need to put more effort into this blog, if I want to get anywhere with it at all. Still, I don’t think I’m ever going to close down this blog willingly, no matter how many (or rather how few) readers I have.