Google Took My Friends
Dear All,
I apologize for the idiotic behaviour of The Cow over these last few days, even though it really has nothing to do with me. Blogger/Blogspot is having some kind of spak attack and all manner of craptacular behaviour has resulted. I checked with the Status Page just now and apparently 'everything is back to normal'.
Well that's a new reading of the word 'normal' anyway, which seems to include the fact that the formatting on The Cow may or may not work, you may or may not be able to make comments, and if you do, they may or may not actually appear.
This is just another incident in a long line of crappy service that has occurred as a result of, or in coincidence with Google's takeover of Blogspot. It seems that Google has hit that inevitable part on the rising curve where companies (or Empires) get too big too fast and everything goes to shit.
I'll probably port everything over to an independant site pretty soon, to my great regret. I am philosophically very much inclined toward this wonderful egalitarian model of free shared information, but Google of all people should be aware how important reliability is to such endeavours. And now they're gunning to get us all to trust them with our personal data.
Well, not me chaps. You just blew it. You were doing good for a while there, and I used to be a big fan. Now you're starting to look just like any other money-hungry capitalistic venture.
If you have been trying to make comments on The Cow and have been thwarted (by lack of any facility for doing so - wha??), once again I apologize. Please don't stop visiting me - you're the only friends I have.
I apologize for the idiotic behaviour of The Cow over these last few days, even though it really has nothing to do with me. Blogger/Blogspot is having some kind of spak attack and all manner of craptacular behaviour has resulted. I checked with the Status Page just now and apparently 'everything is back to normal'.
Well that's a new reading of the word 'normal' anyway, which seems to include the fact that the formatting on The Cow may or may not work, you may or may not be able to make comments, and if you do, they may or may not actually appear.
This is just another incident in a long line of crappy service that has occurred as a result of, or in coincidence with Google's takeover of Blogspot. It seems that Google has hit that inevitable part on the rising curve where companies (or Empires) get too big too fast and everything goes to shit.
I'll probably port everything over to an independant site pretty soon, to my great regret. I am philosophically very much inclined toward this wonderful egalitarian model of free shared information, but Google of all people should be aware how important reliability is to such endeavours. And now they're gunning to get us all to trust them with our personal data.
Well, not me chaps. You just blew it. You were doing good for a while there, and I used to be a big fan. Now you're starting to look just like any other money-hungry capitalistic venture.
If you have been trying to make comments on The Cow and have been thwarted (by lack of any facility for doing so - wha??), once again I apologize. Please don't stop visiting me - you're the only friends I have.
† anaglyph 5:39 PM
5 comments:
You can still create multiple imaginary blogger user accounts, but with problems leaving comments you can't use them expand your circle of friends.
Hypothetically of course.
I like to believe I have lots of imaginary friends leaving imaginary comments...
Google read ya post of Feb 02 "Not So You'd Notice" and blacklisted ya.Took 'em long enough,but then they did have to be taken over by the CIA firstest.The Chinese probably had something to do withit too.And cat haters.Boy,are YOU in trouble now.
Yeah, Ithought it was prolly something like that. Paranoid moi?
Evr think about REnamin that cat o yers, Revrend?
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