Just had a very challenging 15 minutes or so discovering that WordPress, the software used to create and maintain this blog, has been upgraded to Smarter Than Me version 2.1. The link I inserted in the previous entry would not, for some reason, work.
After an exhaustive (short) investigation I have discovered that this is because the internet Has Moved On, and I am no longer required to possess even my current meagre fluency in the worn out and obsolete language of the web, HTML. Instead, the software translates my feeble thoughts directly into Interlac, or whatever the hell it’s called now, complete with shiny links and whatever bold italicizations I may whimsically demand.
Unfortunately, if I am unaware of this fact and try to impose my feeble and outmoded web programmery skills on its sleek and pristine interface, I end up with unclickable gibberish. WordPress, meanwhile, sneers with contemptuous disdain for my presumption, and refuses to inform me what I might be doing wrong.
Fortunately it has failed to account for my supernatural capacity to divine answers from merely staring very hard at the screen until a solution occurs, an extraordinary ability I will call guesstimancy, which as ever has served me well in its mysterious way.
In other news, I think I know how to do links properly now.