This is a sad day in the history of the World Wide Web. I guess it is inevitable that we reach this day, roughly 10 years since the Web became accessible to the average user on a personal computer.

Just as the PR hacks have now for the most part taken over the corporate press in America, now the programmer hacks have taken over the Web - over programming everything to the point where average users with older computers, operating systems and browsers - and dog forbid, even dialup connections - will not be able to take advantage of the benefits of a FREE free press online.

Do you really expect the average computer user out there to buy a new computer and upgrade the damn browser every year just because the people with money in New York and Washington and LA and Seattle seem to?

I thought the new standard in programming was to make things "backwards compatible?"

The new blog ad interface is obviously not backwards compatible. I have real work to do today - that is journalism and photojournalism - and do not have time to completely reprogram the new blog ad strip and remake the house ads for The Locust Fork News and Journal and The Southerner Journal.

I don't know whether to be just sad or really pissed off. Maybe the goddamn programmers can figure it out.

I've got a country and a world to save from the radical Republican fascists. When y'all want to join the revolution and help me do it, please get in touch.
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Glynn Wilson
Editor and Publisher

The Locust World News

The Locust Fork Journal

The Southerner Journal