Radio is difficult to use. It often doesn't work like it's supposed to, so I dread any interaction with it that's even slightly out-of-the-ordinary. Though it should have been a simple matter, renewal was an ordeal for me in 2004, requiring intervention by tech support.

This time, unfortunately, there are going to be choices I did not face last year. I run Radio on a Mac, currently on an OS 9.2 desktop. I have it that Radio will be discontinuing support for Mac OS 9.2 sometime in 2006. So eventually I will need to change my subscription to a Radio version compatible with OS X. I am seriously not looking forward to migrating my blog from the 9.2 to the X desktop, but it seems that even if I postpone that chore till later in 2006, I still must face it eventually.

This month, do I renew my blog in 9.2, keeping everything the same, in hopes of keeping my life just as easy as possible for now? Or do I undertake the dreaded 9.2-to-X migration, to get it out of the way?

On an unrelated note, I was very pleased to come across this website, to promote feminist writing in the blogosphere.

Now, the name of "feminism" has been pretty tarnished in recent decades. Did Gloria-Steinem-style orthodoxy work? Is it still necessary? people ask cluelessly.

Let me tell you a story about my earliest blogging days, back in December, '03.

I was examining some of the other Salon blogs, preparing to get my own online, and I came across one by a young Dutchman, writing in English.

In his blog, this young fellow praised the looks of a Dutch supermodel, to whose photo he'd linked. Then he wrote something very close to, "You'd think that all Dutch women were gorgeous. I want to assure you, this is not the case." He had embedded the latter comment with links to female bloggers who'd posted their photos online, who were ordinary-looking women.

I shouldn't take the Dutchman's words to heart. In person, he was surely a pasty, pimply nincompoop with dandruff and bad breath. He was resentful because he couldn't get dates. He was probably impotent, those times he did score.

I did take that ugly blog to heart. The internet is a media venue! As long as there is going to be garbage like this online for women and girls to stumble across, feminism could not be more pertinent.
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