Message to Google & Blogger

Since the 25th... still. I don't have time to read every reply in the forum, I read a few dozen. I am another user who does not receive my blog entry by email anymore. Nor do I receive comment notifications so communication has broken down and the blogging experience, to use a technical term, sucks. People using Blogger for business must be losing money. Someone must have done something to stop these email features on or around May 25th. You must log any changes you make to your code, so how about explaining. Is this a change you intended and did not want to announce because it might cause some negative feedback or is it just a low priority bug inadvertently created on or about the 25th of May?

Ok, in another thread here I find Blogger is tweaking the email system. In yet another thread there was discussion of a bug. Something obviously happened right around May 25th and since them, no email comment notifications, no copies of blogs sent by email, and no new post notifications. I think a fair question now is - is Google cutting costs by cutting out email notifications as silently as possible (will Blogger itself suddenly disappear as so many free blog platforms have in the past?) - or is every hand and finger at Google Blogger working so hard there's no one left to provide an update. It's a friendly poke. A "known bug blog" or "work-in-progress" or "We Interrupt Your Blogging For This Brief Announcement" message or blog would really be helpful.

Thanks.

Yoko Bashing

Yoko bashers baffle me. How could you love John Lennon and not love Yoko Ono. She was his life, she was everything to him, and she saved his live. He said so more than once. A love and devotion like theirs comes along very rarely and even more rarely is it sustained in the harsh spotlight of fame. They endured some of the harshest critics of any artists partly because they spoke out against the mad human obsession with war, perhaps better than anyone ever did, at a time when people were being killed for speaking out for peace. Together they were an amazing force for good. They took the Beatles to a new much more serious height. Compare John's lyrics before and after their union.

Think about this -

Would you speak about Yoko as you do in front of John?

If you answer yes, then you do not truly love and respect John or his deepest feelings.

Maybe you should listen to this song again.

The Devil Wears Microsoft

Wearing itself, no doubt. If there is such a thing as a heaven and hell, then Microsoft Windows is most definitely from hell because it is daily torture using a computer with Microsoft Windows 10 on it these days. The little laptop that could (but it can't) had a restart needed pop up and I impulsively clocked and my internet TV will likely be out of service for a few hours unless I shut down and screw with Microsoft's plans the that little computer, plans that fail 99% of the time.

Microsoft has to be the worst user experience in the history of the universe.

Or worse.

Bad Umpires

Umpires are supposed o maintain order on the field, make consistent and correct judgment calls, and insure rules are followed. We played six games in a Tampa Softball Tournament and none of the umpires knew rules well, for four of six games they made inconsistent calls, and luckily in our games no one took it seriously to get heated, but I heard in one game...

an umpire called the batter in the on deck circle out because the batter at bat cursed. Not the proper rule and an abuse of power. The tournament director stated that and told the umpire to not come back the second day, but the player sat on the bench for the rest of the game.

In our games, none of the umpires knew the rule for courtesy fouls. A rule basic to the game of softball. I pitched a called strike, the batter swung at the next two pitches and they went foul. The rulebook says the batter is out. Before pitching the next pitch, I asked the umpire if they changed the courtesy foul rules or strike count for the tournament because by ordinary rules, the batter the batter should be called out. The Umpire said he did not know but I should pitch the ball. The batter hit the ball and due to a few errors, two runs scored. We lost the game by one run. Afterward the Umpire said he made a mistake. Too late.

In another game a batter had a foul tip after a swinging strike and he was called out. Again I asked if they changed the rules for courtesy fouls and the umpire said no. I explained the rule and the umpire said the ball did not touch the bat. The other teach said it did, the other umpire on the field said it did, the call was not changed. Batter out.

A runner ran into a catcher who was straddling he third base line two feet off home plate. The catcher dropped the ball. The umpire called the running our for running into the catcher. We asked why it was not called runner obstruction and the Umpire said because the runner should have slip. So I clarified by asking if is saying a runner who breaks a catcher's ankle would be called safe, but a runner who has to go two feet past a catcher to touch home plate is out? The umpire just said it was not obstruction and the runner is out.

Another umpire used the same rule to call runners out as second base. After the game the Tournament Director agreed that sliding into a fielder's's legs is not right and the umpire should not use a sliding safe, no sliding out rule. Also, we got confirmation that if a fielder straddles the line and obstructs a runner's path, the runner should be called safe. Most recreations tournaments and leagues institute that rule to prevent injuries.

There were a lot more complaints and they asked two Umpires not to return for the Sunday session, but it was too late for a lot of teams and the tournament because the seedings were set Saturday morning and the tournament started Saturday afternoon. It was the worst collection of Umpires we ever had at a tournament. Tampa, you blew it for most of us.

They got their money, think they care?

Windows 10 is still malware

Narf :)

Poison Sucks

I don't know what I want to complain about but I want to complain. Food poisoning sucks. Do I complain about the inexpensive (cheap) buffet I went to? Do I complain about poverty because I choose to go to cheap food places where food poisoning is more likely? Do I complain about every little thing in life that hurts? Sure, why not. It's all meaningless anyway, remember?

Windows 10 is still malware