I'm not someone who generally embraces change. Witness the fact that huge swathes of this weblog are devoted to decrying change in New York City. This, of course, is an exercise in futility much like King Canute commanding the ocean waves to recede before him*. Change is inevitable. It's going to happen whether I want it to or not.
In any case, TypePad, the blogging service that graciously facilitates Flaming Pablum, has undergone a change. They started warning me about it a year ago. They unveiled new processes and a new layout for composing and publishing. I, of course, was having none of it, being that I was quite comfortable with the old procedures and the old templates. I sniffed around on the new version, but everything seemed needlessly wonky and non-intuitive. I went back to the old version and didn't look back. Time passed. They continued to implore me to switch over to the new version. I refused, resisted and blithely continued to use the old version. Then they started issuing vague ultimatums. Finally, they gave an end-date, after which the only option would be their new version. That end-date, it seems, is today.
Now, when I sign into TypePad, everything looks different. Perhaps they've honed some of the finer points that I had quibbles about, but I shan't know until I find my sea legs with it. As a result, there may be a slight dip in the dazzling brilliance you've naturally come to expect from this weblog. If so, go ahead and blame TypePad. It wasn't my idea.
*I should probably point out that good ol' King Canute didn't honestly expect the ocean to stop rolling for him. Rather he was trying to teach a lesson to his sycophantic handlers that even a king's word doesn't mean shit in the grand scheme of things.
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