It has been a week since I posted anything to the old blog. Sorry about that, though no one has actually complained. I know how it is to keep checking a site for new content and finding bupkis. I got a little a annoyed with The Guardian recently, when they took a week’s break from their Writers’ Rooms series , without so much as a by your leave. Grrumble.

I’ve had a cold. Been thick as a dawg, don’t ya know. That’s my excuse. My ears are still stopped up, got a bit of croopiness in the bronchi, and the attic is still … flooded, I suppose. And wouldn’t it be great to hear Obama come out in purposeful support of a cure for the common cold? He can raise my taxes for that.

I’m thinking of moving the blog.
Been pondering it for a long time, actually. I keep waiting and hoping that Google will give us a writing interface that isn’t the Internet’s equivalent of a small box of Crayola Crayons. It makes me a little crazy, trying to express myself in a box the size of an index card on my monitor. You can’t see very much of your post at a time. Sure, I don’t have to type the post in the box. I’m typing this one in Google Docs. But when you paste it over, often you have to reformat paragraph breaks, links, etc. And you have to add images and embedded files from scratch.

Sometimes when I open Blogger and try to type something literary or meaningful to me, it feels like I ought to follow the exercise with milk and cookies and a nice nap.

So my idea is to move Metaphor from kylekimberlin.blogspot.com to kimberlin.wordpress.com . It’s an address I’ve had for a long time, and I’ve been running a kind of mirror copy of this blog there, so there’s much of the same content there already. WordPress has a full size text editor, plus static pages to add more content. It’s a little harder to use, but what the hell.

If I did move, I would miss some things about Blogger, like the Send To Blogger tool in Google Toolbar. And the fact that Blogger is so easy and user friendly. But if Google is never going to spend a few bucks to upgrade the kindergarten text editor, then I’ve already waited too long.

I would love to know what my readers think about the idea. Please click here to check out the WordPress blog , then click the link to Go Back in the right column, to come back here and leve a comment. Or use the e-mail link on either blog to send me a personal message.

Speaking of Comments
I’ve had to tighten up the comments function on this blog so that comments are now moderated. This is because I got some spam comments on my last post. I therefore renew my call for the world’s powers to leave the extremist failed states to destroy themselves through canibalistic suicide and gross isolationism, and apply all necessary resources to hunting and killing spammers and virus writers. The planet’s true thugs.