[LINK] Google Blogger Not Updating

Richard Chirgwin rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Fri May 13 18:32:24 AEST 2011


On 13/05/11 2:30 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Roger Clarke wrote:
>> At 2:17 PM +1000 13/5/11, Tom Worthington wrote:
>>> ps: It is a little frustrating not being able to blog ...
>> It wouldn't be of you ran your own service and didn't have an
>> unnecessary dependency on a provider ...
>>
>> Yes, I appreciate that we all depend on network connections and a
>> hosting ISP;  but the more functions you delegate to a provider the
>> more they can muck it up, change it without warning, or withdraw it
>> (not to mention exploit it).
>>
> <snip>
>
> Roger...with this attitude we would all be trying to grow
> our own food and build our own computers.
>
> Marghanita
Capability is freedom.

While this can be taken too far, it's always worth weighing dependency 
versus convenience.

RC




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