Posted 5:44 PM by Gene

FINALLY, the idiots at G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER learn what we who blog have known for weeks, for MONTHS -- "DAMN, BLOGGER IS SLOW." They claimed to have been surprised by the growth in traffic, to which I say, your bosses, through their many friends among the news hacks, are always broadcasting their business GENIUS -- you must be GENIUSES to see your stock DOUBLE -- and you couldn't have foreseen this tremendous GROWTH? If Google could work -- and surely its traffic has grown a lot too -- why couldn't BLOGGER? My guess is they tried to string along with what they had until it literally burned up. Certainly they couldn't spend money on a loss leader. G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER has been slow before, often enough before; and the IPO was a long time coming, so this surely wasn't a new M.O. All this remorse and technology comes too late though, for those of us who (we think) didn't just fall off the turnip truck, who have already decided to abandon the GOOG for an alternative -- and while I don't deny looking for a Web hosting service has pitfalls of its own, this blogger doesn't want to have to pound on his keyboard for forty-five minutes getting through an already balky connection. Judging from the GENIUSES' explanation we have no reason to believe it will get more than marginally better anytime soon. I'm willing to pay for better service. If that what it takes, so be it.

Of course, who can say this growth will last forever? Just as Yahoo! pancaked, just as other dot.coms bombed, surely the number of abandoned blogs is piling up almost as fast as people are singing on. Blogging is no fad, but for the next few years, for many people, it may as well be.

Then maybe G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER would improve. Or maybe the company will finally have spun it off.

P. S. STERNO quotes someone who says G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE will sink, and we all know how the TWXSTERS are with their COVER JINXES.