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Ever since I migrated to the quote-unquote "new Blogger" (I think on New Year's Day) , I've been unable to use it to update any of my blogs at the imaginaryyear.com domain (including this one). I'm guessing that the error stems from my webhosting company, iPower, blocking the "new" Blogger IPs, and I promptly communicated this to the iPower tech support people, in the hopes that they'd be able to let me know whether this is or is not the problem. That was twelve days ago, and so far no luck, but I remain optimistic. Unrelated frustration: I just went down to Borders to return a book I'd inadvertantly purchased a duplicate of, and I decided I'd cash it in for a different book. But I spent a good hour wandering around Borders, looking mostly in vain for even a single book that felt like one I would like to own. I'm not sure why I was having such trouble. After all, I think of myself as an avid reader—I read close to a book a week, for God's sake&151;and there's absolutely no shortage of books that I'm interested in... but for some reason, there's just something about a Borders or a Barnes and Noble that just drains the life out of books for me. There are other bookstores that are the opposite: certain stores I can't walk out of without piling up a dozen great-looking books and then painstakingly winnowing it down to what I can afford. I'm not even necessarily saying that indie bookstores have better books; I'm sure that indie bookstores and corporate bookstores have a considerable amount of overlap in their selection. It must come down to the way the books are displayed, or something: one type of store makes books seem like desirable objects, and the other makes them seem like anonymous stock. Has anyone else had this same experience, or am I just losing it? Labels: rants
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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