Neale's MSBlog review is a gag, right?

February 21, 2002 4:31 PM

Neale's MSBlog review is a gag, right?
posted by brownpau to General Weblog-Related at 4:31 PM (15 comments total)

Y'know, one of those cruel Internet in-jokes where everyone's giggling behind their hands while the clueless newbie panics about not being "in" on it?

(Tip of the hat to Lia for pointing out the link. I was indeed panicking for about two days.)
posted by brownpau at 4:33 PM on February 21, 2002

Gag? It better not be I just bought a copy for $89.99.
posted by eyeballkid at 4:35 PM on February 21, 2002

It's serious.

*takes off glasses dramatically*

Deadly serious.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:42 PM on February 21, 2002

Okay, thanks. I will run around the village screaming now.
posted by brownpau at 5:03 PM on February 21, 2002

Actually, no. It was created by MSMememaker 2002 [now with personality quizzes]
posted by owillis at 5:05 PM on February 21, 2002

There's already an MSBlog plugin that allows easy posting to Metafilter/Metatalk.

~I'm using it right now.~
posted by daveadams at 5:05 PM on February 21, 2002

Hey owillis, if you're using MSMememaker 2002, I hope you got the AYBABTU2 patch. Mine keeps pointing me to the same old shockwave file from two years ago (and I deleted the cache files and changed the refresh rates and it's still doing that crap).
posted by eyeballkid at 5:07 PM on February 21, 2002

Damn M$... It's completely incompatible with Blogger, and only works with a new service called ".NET Blooger". I'm going to wait for Stevey J. to come out with iBlog for Macs. (Though I hear MSBlog for OS X is actually better than its Windows counterpart, although it publishes your blog in a language only 3% of the world can understand.)
posted by thebigpoop at 5:21 PM on February 21, 2002

MSBorger : Resistance is futile.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:06 PM on February 21, 2002

Was that a one-liner, mr. thewonderchicken?
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:35 PM on February 21, 2002

I hear that MS Weblogger reports your user comments back to MS and then Bill Gates reads them. Really.
posted by j.edwards at 9:44 PM on February 21, 2002

Yeah, it was, Kaf.

Do as I say, not as I do!

Heh.

(More seriously - I never ever want one-liners and jokes to disappear from this place, but conversely I'd also hate to see them take over. That's what I meant in that other thread over yonder.)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:48 PM on February 21, 2002

Is it a gag? Well, it made me gag, anyway.
posted by kindall at 10:05 PM on February 21, 2002

I hear that MS Weblogger reports your user comments back to MS and then Bill Gates reads them. Really.

Yes, but in exchange for your help testing the software, he send you $5.
posted by bingo at 11:09 AM on February 22, 2002

Er, sends it to you. You throw me the idol; I throw you the whip.
posted by bingo at 11:10 AM on February 22, 2002