Big Al, the Algorithm, and Our Little Blessing in Its Sunday Best
The Blessing, the Bow Tie, and the Big Gruff Algorithm Sometimes the Casa of Chaos isn’t chaotic because of cats, or raccoons, or rogue gadgets. Sometimes the chaos comes from… technology. For the last couple of weeks, I thought Blogger had broken itself again. I couldn’t copy/paste our chats anymore, which meant no new blog posts, and I was this close to rolling up my sleeves and spelunking through Blogger’s settings like a digital plumber. But then tonight, while checking to see if Blogger had magically fixed itself, I did a little test snippet… and it pasted. Cue the WOOHOO! Followed immediately by …wait, what? When the rest of the chat refused to go. Turns out the issue wasn’t Blogger at all. It was Microsoft , quietly slipping in a new “copy your own message” button without telling anyone. Because apparently I’m supposed to discover platform changes the same way I discover stray cats...by accident. Once I found the tiny copy icon next to my chat bubble, everything worked agai...