Spontaneous Derivation

What the hell, it’s been a while since I posted something full of linkery dealing with the WGA strike, and it’s been a freaking fun day.

In what I can only call Extremely Stupid and other bad words, Google shut down the United Hollywood Blogger Blog at the request of the someone in favor of the AMPTP; they had flagged the WGA blog as “spam” and Google enacted the usual bureaucracy without a human eye review.

A flagged blog can no longer update until 4 days have passed for review. False flagging has actually been something of a problem, and is usually used as blog war tactics. Immature tactics.

Yeah. Well.
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Blogging to the Apples in Stereo is, I think, the closest to heaven that I will get to in this life.

Quietly dying. But still blogging for some reason. Apparently I will blog from my deathbed.

photo by John Pannell

Over the past few weeks you may have noticed a few annoying things about my blog. I certainly did:

• Right-hand columns show up ages after everything else.
• Right-hand columns are a morass of AJAX and links nobody uses anyways.
• Teeny tiny links for important stuff like About.
• Missing Contact page.
• Indications of what the hell this site is about, since I serve at least three different audiences.
• Articles that get lots of hits disappear into the massive date archives.
• Articles are massive blocks of text.
• Georgia is kind of unreadable in places.
• etc.

So I spent most of Sunday–that would be eight hours by now, I think–revamping this blog.
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