Mad props to TypePad

It's easy to take potshots and complain when things go badly but too often there's a failure to give credit when things go well.

This is my shout-out to TypePad, which for months now hasn't had one smidgen of downtime.

But wait, there's more!

I just noticed today that while I was sleeping (gee, joe, how could they tell? But I digress...) TypePad incorporated a spellchecker into its application, so seamlessly that though I only noticed it today, it's probably been doing what it's intended to do for some time now.

If you look closely at the graphic up top you'll see faint dots under flagged words (in the actual application they're red, but they became black in the process of putting up the picture).

That's why there are so few misspellings in bookofjoe these days.

Those that do make it through are, more often than not, misplaced apostrophes and the like or missing words, caught (to my great delight and received here with much gratitude) by my several nonpareil very closest readers.

Wait a minute... what's that music I'm hearing?

But I digress yet again.

I remember back in the day when TypePad was just getting started (I'm a charter member, here from the get-go thanks to the excellent judgment of my webmaster extraordinaire Phillip Winn, whose behind-the-scenes work has enabled me to stay up and running even in the face of my TechnoDolt™ propensities, failures and negative capabilities — used here not in the Keatsian but, rather, the literal sense), they asked what features we users would like to see.

I listed a spellchecker as #1, followed by the ability to make the body of the application workspace (pictured above) larger or smaller by default.

That function was originally present, then disappeared such that you had to resize the block each time it appeared on your screen.

Very annoying.

But then the original function reappeared sometime last year, to my delight.

It's so rare to get what you asked for that it simply must be remarked upon.

And so I have.