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October 14, 2004
The violent death of Blogger
Sorry for the absence. I couldn't post for 6 days. I don't know if the problem was at the Hosting Matters end or the Blogger end, but I do know this: I submitted my first help ticket on Sunday, and Blogger responded to none of my increasingly frustrated 4 tickets until this afternoon, and then intoned it wasn't their problem.I didn't get even that much response until after I had called two Google offices (in NYC and Atlanta) and left angry messages on the voice mail threastening mayhem unless someone at Blogger responded to my tickets. (Google owns Blogger.) There are no phone numbers for Blogger. I had to do a Google search (how ironic) to get a corporate contact page for any phone numbers at Google. The receptionist at Google HQ refused to put me on the line with anyone, and no one at the branch offices answered the phone.
Yesterday, Mary came over and helped me install MT. I won't go into that saga, but there are still a few bugs to be worked out. Meanwhile, hopefully for a very short while, we are back online with - hack, spit!!! - Blogger.
After slaving over a hot 'puter for hours, Mary and I joined some local LGF readers and Iowahawk - who happened to be in town on business - for a debate party. Eric was there too, natch. (As I have noted before, Mary, Eric and I travel in a pack.) It was at a noisy crowded bar with mediocre food and we had a lot of fun. (More from Iowahawk here.)
More later, after I clean up all the entries from this week that finally posted. Meanwhile, some of the stuff you missed:
My long fact-checking post from the town hall debate.
Celebrating Simchat Torah right after another massacre, including a moment of blogger ego, and another moment of personal protest.
The Australians get it, thank God.
The sum of all fears: For all those liberal hawks who are still trying to convince themselves that if they squint and cock their heads just right, John Kerry looks enough like a Wilsonian hawk to pass. (I'm looking at you, Jeff, and you, Andrew, and and you, Michael.)
(Michael and I argued about this for an hour after kiddush on Shemini Atzeret. First in a rapidly-emptying shul social hall, and then at the corner of 14th St. and 2nd Ave. It was one of those arguments. Yet refreshing, because he isn't a moonbat, and what the hell, it was a warm sunny afternoon. We are so close, yet so far. He thinks, "Why can't she see how incompetent Bush is, and why is she taken in by those Swifties?" I think, "Why can't he see that Kerry is a dishonest appeasenik who doesn't have the conviction, fortitude, or constituency to aggressively pursue democracy promotion?" I have this same disagreement with several other friends who at least know Islamofascism is the problem, and that there's a war on.)
UPDATE: Damian on the Iowahawk/LGF debate bash, and a fisking of the debate.
Judith | 10/14/04 at 08:02 PM | Categories: Tedious details
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Congrats on gettting back online, and for getting all those posts up. (lots of reading to do) I guess you had to get tough with the Google/blogger people.
Just to let you know, "Why This Lifelong Jewish Liberal is Voting Republican" has gotten another good review on my site, from Marcus Cicero, whose essay on Winds of Change,
http://windsofchange.net/archives/005701.php
covers a similar subject.
Let me know when the bugs are fixed an MT can go online. I hope you don't have to threaten mayhem again :-)
Mary
Anonymous | October 14, 2004 09:21 PM
Congrats on getting back online, and welcome back! Glad you finally got through to the Bloogle folks.
shoshanna | October 15, 2004 06:46 PM
