I was quite excited when I woke up to an all new Blogger this morning--well, a lecture on "Media & Foreign Policy" to my senior law students here at the China Foreign Affairs University came first. Ouch!
I have been waiting a long time for some of the new features, particularly the built-in "comments" addition. I have wanted to have a comments feature from the giddy-up, but I had not yet found one that was sure to be the right fit with Blogger. Using Blogger software on my own domain name and server, along with a template designed by my lovely wife, Ellen, the author and proprietor of The Crackpot Chronicles, rather than one of theirs, meant that Blogger and The LongBow Papers didn't always talk the same language. Unfortunately, this is still true with the shiny new Blogger.
I am most certainly not complaining; the new "Dashboard" with all of its bells and whistles is going to be a winner, no doubt--one-click "blockquotes" instead of typing the html code every time alone is worth whatever hassles are ahead of me. With a bit of luck, and some adroit code snipping and pasting--which is far easier written than done for this computer dunce--The LongBow Papers will have the comments feature by tomorrow. That very well might not be such a pleasant thing for the author of these pages, of course. My often unpopular view of things is sure to cause me much personal umbrage taken at those who will none too politely tell me exactly how wrong and stupid I really am about almost everything.
That can also be a very good thing, I suppose. Almost everyone I know or have known throughout my life has thought that any degree of anger-management and tolerating fools at least somewhat gladly would not be bad things for me know something about. Of course, I have always thought, and therefore often swore to, that I was a paragon of tolerance and civility. We will soon find out just how right or wrong they or I was on the matter. That is if I can get the goddamn, son-of-a-bitching thing to work!
