21 May 2022

And Then A Mess...

   Well, so, last nights post was a mess was it not? Why, you may ask - or not. Don’t matter I’m going to bore you with the reason anyway.
   Open Live Writer it seems has bitten the dust here and for reasons best understood, by folk much brighter than me, won’t allow me to fix it. I even copied registry entries from one computer, last place it worked, to this machine. No joy. To add to the ‘misery’, once typed here and copied into Blogger, formatting there didn’t work very well either. We’ll see wot happens today.
  Anyhoo, while looking for similar software, it seems most off-line Blogging kit has been abandoned and I’m sure you’ve also noticed that the Inter-Web is littered with much software wot hasn’t been updated for many a long year.
This decided me to start a charity to be known as The Foundation For The Protection Of Ageing Software:

   As you brows the Web, I’m sure your heart goes out to all the software you see that’s been cast out and abandoned by its owner just to be left with nowhere to call home and is huddled in dark corners of obscure Web sites for shelter.

   Fear not, with the help of your generosity, we hope to assign them each a new programmer to assist them in confronting and beating their deep feelings of incompatibility and to overcome their addictions to preprogrammed zeros and ones so as to regain workable normality and get downloaded to a computer where, once again, they’ll be used, loved, cared for and updated regularly as they so richly deserve.

   So please text ‘i-am-a-nutter’ to the number now showing on your screen right away to donate just twenty pounds a week to help us help abandoned and traumatised software to find a bright new updated, un-relient on Java future on a caring computer. You know you want to.

NOTE: Should you wish to cancel your donation sometime in the future, please be advised you’ll find
the procedure so ridiculously complex as to be just about impossible to complete.

Quote; Ralph Johnson.

“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.”

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