An apology..and a rant

This probably comes under the heading of "biting the hand that feeds you" or "looking a gift horse in the mouth" but I am a little annoyed at the Blogger -- er, well -- blogs. It seems that this template (Blogger TicTac Blue) tends to swallow comments and, in general, does not behave correctly. So, if you all have been commenting on this site and come up empty, then it may have been the machine that I am raging against.

I hereby apologize and want to let you know I will be seeking an alternative

To continue the rant, I am a software developer by trade and have been such for 40 years. Earlier incarnations saw me titled as a "programmer", "programmer analyst", "systems engineer", and other titles unmentionable in polite company. I started out when Grace Hopper released COBOL and it was still in "blister pack".

My programming has had me wade through thousands of lines of COBOL, Assembler for numerous platforms, Fortran (regrettably), RPG, Jovial (in the USAF), Java, and my favorites, C and C++ from which I derive the means for my daily crust. These all took me down fairly close to the metal as we are wont to say in this biz.

Anyway, I stray. I took up blogging because I wanted to vent my frustrations at the current unconcerned and inattentive government that yoke us together in servitude and extract or hard-earned dough for their specious escapades.

I did NOT want to write code.

I hate populating parameters for a language that someone else generates machine code with. Such are the various dialects of XML, HTML, and that bane of our existence, CSS style sheets. spare me from learning how to write something according to the frizzy-headed, non-object-oriented or procedural dictates of some alleged geeks who think their fecal matter bereft of odor because they can "code" HTML and that type of crap.

We hardened "C" types would congregate in the back room and tell smutty jokes about them, making rude remarks about their lineage and member lengths.

But, since this steaming load of alleged convenience proffered to us by the Google weenies through Blogspot tends to gag on such a simple concept of keeping straight more than two or three comments made to a posting of mine, then I'll have to sit down and learn CSS and refresh my knowledge of HTML to straighten out the mess those idiots created.

To paraphrase an earlier post: "It's what I do..I am a maintenance developer".

Please have patience while I try to master this.

..and for those who wrote this pile of waste called the TicTac template: you can suck a shoe.