Today in the rasx() Context

Google’s Blogspot.com Changed Their Comment System

Google did exactly what they want with their private property recently by disallowing ‘third party’ online journal writers like me from identifying ourselves in comments. When I went to articles like “A Most Extraordinary Comment” or “Is The Corporate / Government Intentionally Drugging Americans?,” it was not possible to leave a comment and identify myself without using my Google identity. This “security feature” may be optional or this is just a new mandatory measure that keeps America safe for democracy.

My Online Journal Source File Is Getting Tired

Almost all 800+ articles here in the rasx() context are written in Microsoft Word and published with my power tool, CleanXHTML 1.2 for Microsoft Office Word 2003 (.NET 2.0). My desktop publishing background prevents me from assuming that most “blogging tools”—even the excellent Windows Live Writer—are “good enough” to get the job done. Since I’ve used one Word file to publish journal entries since June of 2007, this file—as I write this sentence—has 241 pages! This file is getting tired. It’s not slow writing mind you—but the inline, background spellchecking and grammar is not working as well as it should. I have to hit F7 (Tools > Spelling and Grammar…) explicitly to make sure all my words are checked for gross errors.

Two moves should address this issue: going toward Word 2007 and writing fewer long-ass rants. All this ranting cannot go on forever—and I, even my ego, can assure you that this so-called “catharsis” has not been politically and financially profitable but quite healthy for me.

“.40s and Silverlight make the world go’round”

An article like, “.40s and Silverlight make the world go’round” would be a perfect target for a 2006-style rasx() rant. I could see me writing paragraph after paragraph about Ice Cube paying yet another non-person(s) from the ’hood to implement the Microsoft technology for his latest forty-ounce-and-a-mule pimping venture, UVNTV. As nothing-like-fortune would have it, my previous work from February 2007 addresses this issue in “The One United Bank Experiment”—it’s close enough for me since I am not a professional mail carrier (a person who must ‘address’ messages exactly).

Another intelligent approach to this “issue” that I call a problem about African business people hiring self-described non-colored people to handle almost all of their technical tasks (especially information technology tasks) is in the form of Tom Dowd. Tom Dowd should be the example of held in front of me to disagree with my “narrow views” about your “great” (polluted) world. I would be a complete idiot to racially discriminate against the likes of Tom Dowd in my recording studio. Like the bongo-playing Richard Feynman, Tom Dowd (like me) has a physics background and a healthy appreciation for the African presence in the universe.

However, my doubts are respectable and serious that Ice Cube is in a similar Tom Dowd situation. He would have to use a great deal of acting skills to stretch that one out… such is perils of passing down the property tax to future generations.

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