Fleeing Tumblr
Even though I never published “objectionable” content on my Tumblr blog, their censorship is so offensive I decided to move my blog under my own control at pluckytree.org
Google vs inertia
I can’t remember the last time I used Google to find a piece of factual information and ended up with a completely wrong result.
The rare exception recently was a search I did for:
“I promise you I will” lyrics
I was trying to find the name of the artist whose song repeats that phrase over and over. Here’s what Google found:
Top result: Depeche mode
8 of the top 10 results: Depeche mode
13 of the top 20 results: Depeche mode
The real answer?
A one-hit wonder band called When in Rome. The poor guys had their one hit and pretty much everyone seems to think that it’s actually a Depeche Mode song.… Read the rest