Well now, this is different...

One of the drawbacks of having a blog is that you often get hits from pervgooglers (a term I invented, by the way) looking for all sorts of nasty pictures of celebrities, simply because of the way Google works. You might write something about Julie Chen one day, then some other time maybe quote the part in "The Night Before Christmas" when it talks about "the moon on the breast of new fallen snow," then another time about the nice pictures Fred First has up. Google mashes all that together so that when someone searches for "nice pictures Julie Chen breast," dear stupid Possumblog shows up in the results and some poor sap comes here thinking he's got the inside track on something.

Of course, I'm certain the disappointment is palpable the moment he wanders in.

I bring a lot of this on my self, simply by writing stuff like the paragraphs above, which will certainly result in another spike from Miss Chen's fans, just like several weeks ago when I mentioned Patricia Heaton and her two proud friends at the Emmy's. Ever since, I have gotten a near-constant stream of folks stumbling in here thinking I might have pictures of the girls. For the record, no. No pictures of her at all, nor of her decolletage, nor of anyone else's body parts. But imagine my surprise when I checked this morning and found that I had received a visitor via Google searching not for Miss Heaton's unclothed gams, chestal region, or posterior--it was a search for patricia heaton ears.

Wow. For once I wish I did have pictures.

(She does quite a set.)

Stupid STUPID BLOGGER! Getting a new message I've never seen before: Error 103:java.sql.SQLException: Could not allocate space for object 'BlogSettings' in database 'blogger' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full. (server:disco)

Oh sure, blame it on disco. Luckily, I have the handy yet useless Blogger troubleshooting guide, which basically gives you the MicroSoft Solution of 'turn it off, turn it back on.' But we can be grateful that the Blogger team is embarking on a truly worthy project...

Blogger.com needs a facelift! We're getting ready to release some major changes and improvements to the Blogger application, and we think the occasion calls for a long-overdue update to the Blogger.com site design. In order to get this done at the same time, we've decided to hold a contest for designers who would like to take a stab at what they think Blogger should look like.

Why yes, let's put some lipstick on this pig, shall we? How about making the stupid thing WORK! How about fixing it so that I don't have to go republish my archives every ten days because they mysteriously disappeared! How about fixing your servers! How about leaving the home page alone and work on the user guide!

Bah!
posted by Terry at 8:24:00 AM