Doswell blogger Dale Brumfield (Pictured at left) has decided to reluctantly abandon the automated blog-writing software he created after it generated several weak entries.
“Judging by the number of hits, or lack of them, I have to say the software is a bust.” Claims Brumfield, who spent 6 years writing the 4 million lines of embedded code creating the software. “I can’t believe I spent 6 years writing that software that creates stories like ‘Doswell Man Plans to go Straight Home After Work’? Come on, that was beyond pathetic.”
Brumfield had high hopes for the software when he began creating it in 2003. “My goal was an automated entry-creation entity based on free-flowing algorithms that recognized random topic projection. Thus project/object administrators shared packaged front-web portal patterns with customizable front-end architecture. But my software’s idea of what was funny was not my own, nor that of the thousands of readers who faithfully follow News From Doswell.”
“It’s easy to spot the entries generated by the software,” claims Brumfield. “In addition to the straight home from work entry, there’s the Haircut entry, the Self-Service pharmacy entry, the metric calendar entry and of course the infamous Doswell Resident Revealed as Infamous Sears Man on Page 602 entry. It’s easy to spot them because they all suck.”
Brumfield added that days and days spent tinkering with the software never improved the quality of the posts, therefore he says he is going to print out the entire 7,500 pages of code then chuck it all in the trash, saying good riddance to 6 years of concentrated work as soon as he gets to Office Max and buys about a gazillion reams of paper.
“Judging by the number of hits, or lack of them, I have to say the software is a bust.” Claims Brumfield, who spent 6 years writing the 4 million lines of embedded code creating the software. “I can’t believe I spent 6 years writing that software that creates stories like ‘Doswell Man Plans to go Straight Home After Work’? Come on, that was beyond pathetic.”
Brumfield had high hopes for the software when he began creating it in 2003. “My goal was an automated entry-creation entity based on free-flowing algorithms that recognized random topic projection. Thus project/object administrators shared packaged front-web portal patterns with customizable front-end architecture. But my software’s idea of what was funny was not my own, nor that of the thousands of readers who faithfully follow News From Doswell.”
“It’s easy to spot the entries generated by the software,” claims Brumfield. “In addition to the straight home from work entry, there’s the Haircut entry, the Self-Service pharmacy entry, the metric calendar entry and of course the infamous Doswell Resident Revealed as Infamous Sears Man on Page 602 entry. It’s easy to spot them because they all suck.”
Brumfield added that days and days spent tinkering with the software never improved the quality of the posts, therefore he says he is going to print out the entire 7,500 pages of code then chuck it all in the trash, saying good riddance to 6 years of concentrated work as soon as he gets to Office Max and buys about a gazillion reams of paper.
And in case readers were wondering, that "Git-R-Dun" tattoo on Brumfield's forehead was not an iron-on.
