Good morning to real Slogger people everywhere. I’m sorry to waste valuable time blathering on about this, but I wish to confirm a global outbreak of arrogantly insane and totally risible service.

Good morning to arrogantly insane silo nerd-Hobbits everywhere. I’m angry at having to address you yet again via these spiders from Mars you use to feed governments everything everywhere in perpetuity, but is it possible you could drag yourselves away from today’s LA Times Sudoku for Aliens puzzle and find it within your barren souls to answer a simple question:

How dare you force a blog-composition format onto your customers, have it screw up their image uploads, and then disappear back into the darkness of middle Earth?

I am mad in the American sense of angry, but in all other senses I am not the mad one here little Googly grey-faced nerd-Hobbits: have you been to your main Blogger problems page recently? Well let me tell you GGFNHs, the last post there was June 10th. Since that time you must have screwed up oh, at least 47,000 times – because there are 47,000 threads in the Black Hole of Calcutta Chat room. Their wailing is heart-rending, and covers a list so long it requires a further site page just to contain it.

I know it hurts to read anything consisting of words because your lips get tired, but you’ve got this far gnarled and unpleasantly hirsute little Googly grey-faced Nerd Hobbits, so stick with it for the final attempt to introduce a scintilla of shame into your autistic existence.

This morning I wasted two hours trying to dig round your silo by signing up for Windows Signwriter. On the final one of many pages requiring a detailed account of my life since puberty, it asked me to enter my Slog ID details. And you know what BO-ridden, lank-haired, gnarled and unpleasantly hirsute little Googly grey-faced Nerd Hobbits? You told them I don’t have an active blog.

My thanks to Anon yesterday who suggested Signwriter. Great piece of software, but as The Slog has ascended to another ethereal plane of non-physical existence, it’s not going to help.

In conclusion, could I just point out again to real people Sloggers with social skills beyond a psychotic, incontinent skunk that we get the leaders, suppliers, retailers, and dangerous, undead, BO-ridden, lank-haired, gnarled and unpleasantly hirsute little Googly grey-faced Nerd Hobbits we deserve. We didn’t use to complain enough, but then we did and so they pulled the plug on that. And now we don’t take any action to force them by law to provide proper service. And it will get worse and worse and more like Kafka’s The Trial until we take action.

Relatively normal service will soon return.

UPDATE AT 09.50: Windows confirms signup for Live. I reply. Email bounces back ‘box unusable’.
I go to online help. It says ‘WE REALLY VALUE YOUR FEEDBACK’.
It then spends 17 pages (really) and dozens of options to try and do anything to avoid me giving them feedback.
It evetually gives me a form the size of a postage stamp for me to reply in, and says ‘no attachments’.

I do try to keep profanity to a minimum on this site, but as I’ve been saying for over six years now, these people are taking the piss.