Bothered and Bloggered by Blogger.com

By JULIETTE ROSSANT Superchefblog apologizes for our down time over the past week. The cause is fairly simply and straightforward, even if the solution has been difficult: Superchefblog has been bloggered! We hereby define "bloggered" as "a condition affecting in which Blogger.com ignores its application users for a long time." We define "long time" by Internet time -- one week. Serious downtime affecting serious (and less serious) blogs by Blogger.com is apparently widespread and has been noted by (among others): Wired Magazine Daily Kos CorrenteWire The help from Blogger.com -- alas! -- has not been forthcoming. Rather than whine and complain, however, about a free service (no matter how reasonable our help expectations may be), we have decided to make light of the predicament, now that we have found a temporary fix through Blogger.com itself -- by offering artistic twists on the Blogger.com logo. Now, Blogger.com was very proud of its new look and trumpeted loudly: in our case, we offer very humbly these works of art as displays of merry anguish after languishing without the help promised by Blogger.com. Our first rendering *at the top of this article) represents not just a banner -- which certain visitors might be tempted to use themselves in an attempt to mount pressure on Blogger.com to provide timely technical assistance (or even to reply to pleas for help) -- but an expression of personal feeling -- of upside-down-ness, of rolling uncontrollably -- and landing again upside-down. Our second rendering (on the right) is even more pleasing to the eye, capturing (we hope) the "proportionality" which Douglas Bowman put into the Blogger.com logo he redesigned. This rendering also plays on a basic cross design, which is older than human history. Our third and final rendering plays upon another prehistoric design, the tetraskelion. To appreciate some of the great cross and tetraskelion designs of history, we would like to share (below) a few examples, which are (in order): a Jerusalem Cross from the time of the Crusades, the ancient Hindu Cross, and the Fylfot Cross: For the meantime, we will continue posting at this URL, so please don't change any previoius settings. Blogger.com permitting, we will be reverting to our normal website at superchefblog.com in short (in Internet time, we hope). Previous articles: Angel Delivers Superchefblog from Blogger.com Technorati Tags: superchefblog, Juliette Rossant, super chef, celebrities, chefs, food, restaurants, cooking, branding, cuisine, Blogger, Blogger.com, Bloggered --> back to superchefblog