Thought Clouds
The Digital Bender

I was reading Naryat's message on mala2e6's blog 3almanshar and I felt a real sense of loss and sadness. I wasn't about to cry or anything, but I felt loss and couldn't understand why. Now the weird thing (or what I suspect is weird) is I don't know Naryat. I only know the RSS feed and the collection of HTML layouts and images that are Naryat's blog. So why does it get to me so? Me thinks I need to reconsider the true effects the internet is having on society. To tell you the truth, if I had read this on someone else's blog I would've thought it was corny. But nevertheless, here I am.

This blog post is more of a test for the "Performancing" plug-in for FireFox. If this works as advertised, then this should appear on my blog without me having to go to blogger.com and starting a post from there. Which is wonderful. Below this line is a drag-drop from the FireFox Add-ons page for Performancing . Performancing by Performancing More previews… Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog. Performancing for Firefox was developed by Performancing.com, the worlds largest organization of professional bloggers. The file itself was written by Jed Brown, and coordinated by Nick Wilson, both of Performancing LLC. Now it's me again. And based on what I see so far, Performancing is going to be the Number 2 plug-in I i...

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