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My daughter Ariel uses blogger for her ~apd2a blog, a Fish Rush "Five Fish" site, which she recently renamed oomny.net. (It means "clever" for those who read A Clockwork Orange.) Shortly after the Google purchase Ariel started blogging about posts dropping out for the very first time since she started bloging. Ariel writes: "I blame you Google. Just kidding." A small problem, but I told Ariel that if the problem continues I would get her a Radio Userland account if she wanted one. When I told her that Doc Searls also was a Five Fish Award winner, she said she thought the award probably meant she had a good blog. I'm just wondering about the Figure Blogging competition being influenced by corrupt French judges. You have to wonder about a people that will permit their national patron saint to be burnt alive at the stake, Joan the Maid, and if the US should expect to be treated any differently, having saved the French in two world wars. Mark Twain noted in his book on Joan about the French national character: "She led it from victory to victory, she turned back the tide of the Hundred Years' War, she fatally crippled the English power, and died with the earned title of DELIVERER OF FRANCE, which she bears to this day. And for all reward, the French King, whom she had crowned, stood supine and indifferent, while French priests took the noble child, the most innocent, the most lovely, the most adorable the ages have produced, and burned her alive at the stake." Twain's preface to his Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc is a profound essay, not just about Saint Joan, but about the French character. Published under a pen name in Harper's Weekly to avoid associating the serious work with his other satire, Twain considered the book the best work of his life as a writer. If Twain were alive today, his blog would be very interesting.
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