Inactivating This Blog

All future activity will be posted at MyOpera. Those of you who link to this blog please update. For those of you who email me at my Gmail account, it's now soulkiln@myopera.com . While I do not intend closing this blog, per se, it will eventually be inactivated because I won't be posting here any more.

The reason is Google has begun an intrusive campaign, demanding a cellphone number for all accounts as the only way they will interact when something doesn't work properly. I realize they have a massive user base, but they have already displayed a contemptuous lack of accountability to users too many times.

Blogger Outage

In case you didn't know, Blogger was not available for posting during the past two days. You could still read what was already up, but no one could add anything. Not even the folks who are paying for their Blogger accounts were exempt. That's an awful lot of commercial operations that couldn't post new content, some with typically a lot of posting activity.

What does this say when a company like Google (which owns Blogger) with an advertising budget bigger than the gross national product of most countries can't keep such an essential service working?

I had already decided to reduce my emphasis on this blog, using it mostly for Bible studies and a few purely spiritual posts. Frankly, I was getting more reaction and traffic at my other blog. Even more importantly, it was a move of the Spirit I should not trust Google so much before this outage hit.

Learn to hear and obey such spiritual impulses.