September 23, 2008

Metabloggic Musings

I think enough time has passed, or at least it feels so in blogtime (where two days = two weeks) such that I can poke my head out again. I recently experienced the mortification of accidentally publishing a diary entry and it reminded me that the word "embarrassment" comes from the vulgar Anglo-Saxonism "to bare [one's] ass". (I just made that up, but it seems plausible.) It wasn't quite embarrassing enough to give up blogging, apparently, as here I am.

Anyway, finding the post generated a flurry of work in the form of quickly gathering ten or so posts in which to bury the offending entry for aggregate readers, the theory being that a daunting dozen entries or so from Video Meloria would lessen any appeal to dig. Of course I'd re-updated the greatly slimmed-down entry and re-published to prevent viewing by those who visit the html rather than the xml. A quick peek at SiteMeter revealed maybe thirty hits. The overseas hits felt totally painless given the salve of the anonymity of distance.

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