Today's task is from the August 29th entry. I have to EMAIL A BLOGGER THAT LINKED TO ME TO SAY THANKS. So it's off to good old Technorati to see who's been writing about me.

You haven't been writing about me, have you? Loads of you have put me in your blogroll, though, so thanks for that. From the list of people who have linked to me, I chose The Bad Idea Blog. He doesn't show his email address, which means I don't have to send him an email. Result!

I'll add a comment, though. He writes interestingly about the meaning of meaning. One of the things which consistently annoys me about the religious is the way they think they've somehow cornered the market on the meaning of life. Even the ostensibly 'moderate' ones (presumably the ones who think only the nice voices in their head are real) still do this.

Bad simply points out that the whole idea of meaning is empty when considered in the abstract, and that you can't say that anything means something without having someone that it means something to. Straightforward enough one might have thought, but if you want to fight for secularism you can't stand on ceremony, you have to roll up your sleeves and restate the bleeding obvious over and over again until all the confounders of the bleeding obvious just fuck off.

Amazingly, this hasn't happened yet, but me, Bad and the others like us still live in hope. Just to make it clear, the correct answer to the question what is the meaning of life? is shut up you tart.