Back from the shadows yet again 

Now it can be told. Saturday afternoon my newsreader informed me that Version 2 of Iblog, my blogging software was ready for download (Developer's website: it is recommended that all users of version 1 download this software). I dutifully downloaded, as I was particularly hopeful that I would be able to post Youtubes with the upgrade. Not to get ahead of myself this was actually Iblog RC2. The "RC" stands for "release candidate". Well, it turns out that this candidate has a lot of similarities to your average Republican Candidate, promising much but delivering very little at terrific cost. Definitely, not ready for prime time. Yes, I can now do Youtubes, but it took approximately 16 hours of work to get even that. Documentation? nil. Nonetheless, intrepid as always , I converted my old data, tried to add some, and found that the new posts did not get on the web. At least that's what I thought, until after hours of work I found that they were indeed out in cyberspace, only not at the correct address. In other words, the entire site was out there, twice, with the new version at an address that no one had. I had no ability to post to the old site, to direct people to the new one.

I have solved the problem, as you can see, no thanks to the software, or the developer. In a former phase of my life I was an amateur computer programmer, so I learned a bit about computers, and I was able to analyze the problem and take corrective action.

The irony of this is that I have been thinking seriously of bagging this whole thing, inasmuch as I am aware that recently much of the writing on this blog has been, to put it bluntly, crap. It didn't seem right, somehow, to simply stop without explanation, which is what would have happened had the problem been insoluble. Anyway, given this new lease on life, I have decided to inflict myself on a defenseless world for a little while longer at least.

By the way, in response to a comment, the duck video is definitely not of my pond (as the commenter well knew). It was chosen for experimental purposes only, it being the last funny youtube video I had seen prior to the date I posted it.