December 15, 2004

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I still don't get it...

    By Jack Grant

...perhaps it's a simple inadequacy on my part, but the widespread (at least from what I've seen) celebration that Rachel Lucas is blogging yet again (she's had more on-again off-again uncertainty than a hundred Hamlets) is beyond my comprehension. I read her first return, and her second, and now the latest incarnation, the so-called Blue-Eyed Infidel, and all I see is someone who likes to rant for the sake of ranting.

Fuck, I can do that...

I can do it better than she can, too...

I just choose not to, because it accomplishes absolutely nothing.

Is that what it takes to get readers?

If that is what the world wants, it confirms my occasional low opinion of people, an opinion that comes to the fore when it's late in the night and I've had more than a few glasses of Scotch.

On a slightly different note, there seems to be something odd about NZ Bear's TTLB ecosystem. It hasn't picked up posts here that I know have been linked to by many folks (my Spirit of America fundraising posts, for the biggest discrepancy, but others as well). Is there something that I'm doing wrong here, or a known bug, or what?

Posted by Jack Grant at 18:42 on 15 December 2004
Comments

Guess people like her rants, she has a cult following, not sure why. As to the Bear, he did have a spot where he was updating and it didn't work. Showed 0 links for a few days, big hiccup. Since he has changed his method, it has become less useful for finding sites that linked me that I didn't know about. It only shows a few. Graph is nice thou. Probably not working right and not picking up all the posts.

Posted by: mog at December 16, 2004 01:06 AM

At least in Safari, the trackback url comes up the same for all posts even after emptying the cache. Works in Firefox so I fixed the trackback. Don't know if other browsers have that problem.

Posted by: mog at December 16, 2004 01:45 AM

Jack,

I have to wonder about Rachel's following as well. I don't think she is anything all that special. I guess she is popular because she was one of the earlier female bloggers. I do like her doggie pictures, though!

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