And Furthermore, Bugger All MY Problems...

...because one of the Frequent Flyers of my comments section is in some SERIOUS hot water, entirely through ZERO fault of her own!!

Eatmisery's blog, Comments From the Peanut Gallery, has been unfairly labelled by Google/Blogger as an "attack site". (Link to the particulars here...) Apparently, she has a gadget or a link on her page to a geneology site, a bloglink site, and (what I am assuming to be) some sort of ad for SOMETHING. And apparently, by placing these PERFECTLY FREAKING INNOCENT LINKS on her blog, she has been marked with the scarlet letter of "MALWARE PROVIDER!! ATTACK! BADSITE! BADSITE!! DANGER! DANGER! WOOP WOOP WOOP!" Click on the link to her blog above, if you want to see how scary they make it sound.

BUT: That's not the worst of it.

NOT ONLY have they put a big scary red thing at her blog's link...
NOT ONLY has Google/Blogger been AB-SO-EFFING-GODDANG-LUTELY --ZERO TO THE INFINITE POWER-- worth of help with this issue (I've seen her increasingly-panicked posts all over the Google/Blogger support forums today)...
BUT: When you click on the "ignore this warning" link to go to her blog?

IT TELLS YOU THAT HER BLOG DOES NOT EXIST.

Now, here's the thing. Miz is expecting twins any day. She's at the end of a high-risk pregnancy, and she's been using her blog to keep distant friends and family up to date on what's going on. And suddenly, with NO warning, and with NO kind of instruction, advice, or support on how to solve this issue, her perfectly innocent, no-malware-involved blog has been, as the activists of several foreign countries phrase it, "disappeared". FOR NO GOOD REASON. And no one from Google or Blogger will answer her questions--despite their presence on the VERY THREADS she's asking for help in.

I am reasonably sure that her blog has not been deleted for good and for all--after all, how many times have we now been warned that "everything is eternal on the Internet"? But seriously--nobody, least of all a pregnant woman, should have to go through THAT kind of bullshit, then have it compounded by an unresponsive corporation. When Blogger was small, without Google's hand all up its backside, their response times were INFINITELY better--not that it would be difficult, since she's now going on several DAYS with no response.

HEY GOOGLE! We're watching this, and you're really not looking very good right now.
I know I'll be backing up every word of this blog; I'm in no way prepared to have almost six years of my past and history chewed up and spat out by a faceless monolith with a cute logo. Hell no, not for me. I'll go to Wordpress and take my OWN chances, if that's how this place is headed.