I’m having problems with Blogger.

Certainly, I’ve gotten my “money’s worth” out of the free site. All of it and more.

Since I signed up for free in early 2004, when my previous relationship was falling apart.

Since then, I haven’t changed the template or anything about the blog with the exception of a few custom updates enabled by — thankfully — Robert. Thanks again to you, dude.

Since then, Blogger wants me to “update my template.” And update it now.

To me this translates to: “lose all your previous postings.”

Which is why, if you’ve wondered, my small point on the Blogosphere hasn’t much changed in seven + years.

I’ll freely admit: I’m quite afraid of what I’ll get.

And further: I’m quite afraid of technology in general. Because I’ve had it obscure and wipe out many things I’ve acquired in the past with regard to hundreds — if not thousands — of incredibly important photographs.

Which are now gone. Immeasurably. Gone. Irretrievably. Gone.

I’m considering transmigrating to the “New Blogger.”

Can anyone tell me what I’ll find and experience?

What are the consequences of migrating from “old Blogger” to the “new Blogger”?

Can anyone enlighten me, pretty please?

BZ

From Johnny Cash.

He understood.

BZ

I just spent three hours making a new post.

And Blogger just fucked it into gibberish.

I’m about done with Blogger.

I’m not gone; I’m just stewing.

BZ

Apparently not.

75+ people killed in Nairobi due to an innate misunderstanding of reality.

Idiocy of this nature actually gives the appellation “Third World” a bad name.

And my blunt honesty makes you quite uncomfortable, doesn’t it?

As well it should.

This pleases me.

Darwin at work, yes?

BZ

From the New York Times, Paul Krugman wrote yesterday (9/11):

September 11, 2011, 8:41 am

The Years of Shame

Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?

Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?

The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.

Mr Krugman, of course, disabled comments on his post.

Does Mr Krugman have it partially correct, all wrong, or all right?

BZ