To save you from my miserable experience farting around with incompatible plugins, suffice it to say that I disabled every one of them in order to get this site back up. In so doing I came to a remarkable realization…

Until it ruptures with life-threatening and gut-wrenching pain a benign appendix goes quite unnoticed. As one of many useless parts of the human anatomy which have atrophied with evolution I realized that most of the plugins I had installed were, or had become, similarly vestigial.

With surgical precision I started whipping out the offending plugins to find that not only did my blog now work but that I rather liked the idea that stripping the blog down was “inline” with how I my want “online” experience to be…minimalist, intensely personal, um, useful even.

I never had much of a readership here. The one or two occasional visitors were more likely perverts looking for filipino hot babes or wannabe sperm donors than the industry blogebrities whose attention I once craved.

That said, I was alarmed — I don’t know why, what else did I expect? — to find that the faint signs of life that affirmed my blog’s existence for the last however-long had completely disappeared. Instead, Google Analytics showed a flat line. My blog is dead. I mean, like, no signs of life. Flat-line dead. Even three days after reactivating the analytics plugin, nothing. I mean, three days, for the love of God!

But hold on a sec…is that brain activity I detect or is this an out-of-blog experience?  There’s got to be more to this experiment than Recruitomatic’s gone bye-bye. Surely, there must be more.

Hello?

Well, I guess “today is a good day to die” after all.

Clear!