Outgeeked Myself

In the spirit of posting off-topic I'll tell a little tale. A tale that involves my border brother revamping the blog.

We were both in agreement that the old template was lacking. Hell, if you have to make a post telling people that they can post comments on what is essentially a social networking site you're doing it wrong.

So yesterday FT says "Hey, let's add AdSense". I've got no issue with that. While I generally can't stand inline advertising, Google does it right. No screaming Flash ads, nothing too intrusive. What the hell, let's see if anybody actually clicks through. So he works out the inline code while we're on the phone and declares "Cool, we have ads!"

The ensuing dialog was like an excerpt from "Abott & Costello, the lost on purpose routines."

"Where?"
"Up top, near the login box."
"On the main page?"
"Yeah."
"Where?"
"Near the login box."
"On the main page?"
"Yeah."
"Where?"

I refreshed the page and figured my Firefox cache was FUBAR so I switched to Safari and we did a rinse and repeat on the previous dialog. What the hell?

Then it hit me... "Hang on, let me turn off my ad-blocker."

Duh.

Sad as that was, then I got home today and noticed more changes. Since I whitelisted the blog now I could see the ads but the login box was gone. Hmmm.

Remembering yesterday's adventure I immediately jumped to turning off all my browser add-ons... Adblock Plus, Greasemonkey, whatever. Still no good. Switch from Firefox to Safari again. Still no dice. What the hell?

Okay, jump to the Blogger main page and I can sign in. Good enough, I'll work out the details later. I spend a little time reading some other stuff and then jump into my email. Got a message from FT...

"You can't login to Blogger anymore through the site since the nav bar is gone, so you have to go to www.blogger.com to sign. Everything else works fine."

What ran through my mind immediately following was every variation and combination of Carlin's seven dirty words that I could think of, and then some.
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