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I can't tell you how liberating it is to be using this Blogger shit. When I think back to how clunky and hard to use my old web publishing software (which shall remain nameless) was, it's amazing that verbungle.com lasted this long.

Even when I had a good idea, I would dread the actual process of starting a post. Because it was fucking time-comsuming. And labor-intensive. I would manually create individual permalink pages for each day's post (I wonder if anyone ever even used one). I would update links by hand. I would be "saving as" with each day's post into the next. I would be cuttin' and pastin' me haloscan links left and right. When I wanted to create a link, it took like a full minute for the correct window to load. Painful. And there were glitches. Daily damn glitches. And my site looked vastly different from browser to browser, computer to computer. I'd get to the office and it would look much shittier than it did at home. And I couldn't easily edit it from a remote computer.

I am so happy to be rid of that process. The only danger is now that posting is easy, I might have an even lower standard of quality to turn a thought into a post. Sort of like how digital photography helped ruin the art of photography. How digital anything removes the threshold of talent - the barrier that used to exist when somebody tried to do something. Now we can all do it. I think it's a better world because of it.

You might be gettin' three crappy posts a day sometimes. And someday I might even be tempted to post from work (on my lunch hour, of course).

You'll need to keep checking back.

I repeat: it's so easy, I don't understand why you ain't bloggin' yet (you know who you are). I'm not even endorsing Blogger over any other service, just saying that if you feel like posting something to the internets, you should. You too. You could be doing it ten minutes from now.

But I also want to make it clear: I am not abandoning the content of good ol' verbungle.com. Not at all. As Don says in Sexy Beast, "Not this time, Gal. Not this time. Not this fucking time. No. No no no no no no no no no! No! No no no no no no no no no no no no no! No! Not this fucking time! No fucking way! No fucking way, no fucking way, no fucking way! You've made me look a right cunt!" The predictions, the reviews, the snippets, the columns by stalwarts like Dan K., cW, the Yatchman, and CrsMrsmal -- I love all that shit and it will continue. Even the Gatorade reviews. Just consider this site the new homepage.

Good job by cW for nailing "Mama told me not to come" in the lyricdat challenge. I would post the MP3 but I don't own it. I like that song though.

Dan K. says:

Don't redirect. How will we access the old stuff if we're constantly getting auto-sent to this page?

First, I am flattered that anyone might actually be accessing the old stuff. Second, don't worry -- it will be easy. Basically, there will always be a link on the bottom of my link list that takes you to a directory of "verbungle classic" content. That directory might not be located at www.verbungle.com, but clicking on it will allow you to access all the non-blog content. I would only do a redirect to...er...redirect people here from the old blog location. I may do that later this week.

So I'm feeling pretty good about things. Better than I felt the other day, when a woman at work caught me scratching my dry itchy right ass. She turned and immediately left the room, too. That was embarrassing.

This just in: hockey continues to suck.

Alright kung fu heroes -- tell me whodat. Thirteen points.