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Senator Hooser posted a couple of entries yesterday on the KSSK interview and aftermath.
In the end he writes:
Final Note: A friend reminded me recently of the famous quote:
“When you wrestle with a pig in the mud: you both get dirty and the pig loves it.â€So, I will wrestle no more. And will attempt to “disengage†from this issue.
For a heart-stopping 15-minute period that seemed to stretch for several hours early this morning, iLind.net disappeared.
First question in any such investigation: “Did you screw with it? Yes or No?”
Of course, my answer was “yes”.
Now that it’s all back where I started, I’ll try to get to the day’s content.
I’m still working my way up that WordPress learning curve.
I’m still working out the bugs in this system but, so far, it’s going okay. Some links don’t work for apparently obscure reasons, but….
This also makes it a bit easier to post mid-day updates, but I haven’t decided whether to go down that road. I’ll just see how things work out.
And there’s the question of the ads. My friend Chuck presented his view on blog ads in a recent entry, concluding that “everybody loses”.
The advertiser’s ads are ignored, the blog is cluttered with ads which distract from the content and the “customer” / user / visitor gets another dose of marketing, whether they like it or not.
But one reader yesterday said she appreciates the Amazon ads, which she uses to purchase things and support this site at the same time.
So whether the ads will reappear is another issue I’ll have to sort out soon.