02 July 2007

Free the Blogger one

Link: nourishing obscurity: Help!.

Bryan Appleyard has not been seen on his blog since Thursday, all of four days ago. A campaign has been launched to free him from whatever part of Blogger's dashboard he has fallen into. Or as he puts it:

"I am locked out of my blog by Blogger. A campaign has been launched to free me. I am humbled."

You can sign up at the above nourishing obscurity link - which leads to a blog run by Bryan and all the Thought Experiments regular commenters. You live and learn. (Well, I do.)

2 Jul 2007 21:34:11 | Weblogs

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