Sarcasm, plain and simple.

Make no mistake, David W. Boles is being sarcastic:

1. Don’t Post for Days in a Row: No one is interested in what you have to say so why say it as often as every day? People don’t like an ongoing relationship so be sure to keep them at a distance with unpredictable posts. There is no better feeling than to read the same thing over and over. Leave it up to whimsy, instead of reliability, to find you.

I generally can't stand to go a few hours without blogging, let alone a whole 24.

4. Never Backup: You are infallible. Computers never fail. The internet is always “on.” Servers don’t crash. “99.9% Uptime” guarantees really mean “100% Uptime.” Why back up your database? Why save your config files? What could happen?

I back up my blog every day after that one time when my whole blog got obliterated because I lost my network connection while republishing my blog...

7. Reveal Nothing: You started your blog to keep your privacy intact. Revealing bits of your heart and ordered thoughts and broken life experiences only causes you public pain. Keep everything bottled up. You are an island. You are your body and not your spirit.

That's why sometimes everything looks peachy in Poppy's life, and then all of a sudden you'll see a I'm-a-gonna-beat-the-sh!te-outta-(someone) post. :)

The rest of David's wonderfully penned list is available here. Need more? Visit his blog's main page, titled David W. Boles' Urban Semiotic.