oh, sure, sure, that's what they always say

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Some of us aren't fooled one little bit. Others, I'm sure, are agonizing over such a tantalizingly near miss. Personally, I think it would be cool to be strapped to it, or to ride it like one of those dumb flying lizards in the movies.

I've made the mistake of looking at some of the beta features for Blogger this evening and am fooling around with things here a little. I don't know what I'm keeping and what will be going, but if yer on a reader maybe you want to click in and take a look around, see if there's anything you like about it. I mean, now you can just pass some sort of generalized judgment without bothering with commenting... but I've not left open the option to curse me out there. Maybe you want to suggest more appropriate boxes to check, or maybe I will think of ones that amuse me more, or maybe I'll just nix it altogether. I put Blogger's version of a tag cloud at the bottom of the front page and I don't know if that'll stay either, but since I am such a jerk about not getting all the names and specs into each post to help make the search function more useful, here or on the search engines, it might help somewhat when you are trying to find something I posted and have a general idea what category I might have put it under.

Or, you could damn well pay closer attention! That's an option! I'm sure it would be helpful if I could make up my mind about certain aspects of blogging that run afoul of my bodhisattva vow or my personal tastes... but... well... other things do press, do weigh on my mind as well.....

In the midst of this, I find that they were trying to get me to identify as an "uber-leftard" and I was going there if it could be "uber-leftard of love", but then Herman piped in with his "fairydust lefty" thing and I took to that more readily. This could mean all kinds of head-scratching to create more uniformity in the chaos. Or it could mean more chaos.

But it has all put me in mind of the fact that I haven't checked the patency of my sidebar links in too long, and I never finished going through my archives and deleting all the stuff with broken links. The longer I don't do this, the more agony it will be to try to keep this place a veritable sky castle of mystical connection to fundamental reality... and... well... I am a little queasy about the kind of information that SHOULD still be accessible, but is getting yanked out of the public domain. I'm not looking forward to experiencing that bit of fundamental reality, believe me.

Worst of all, I found it has been ages since I last whined and bitched and pissed and moaned for my wealthy socialist gentleman! You guys think I'm kidding! I can't believe I'm still here.
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