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Nope

Today's exercise for the Wordpress “Blogging 101” course is titled “Spruce up your Sidebar”, and asks us to add a couple of widgets to the sidebar of our blog. Luckily there is a get-out secondary exercise – no doubt they saw me coming – to write a shorter-form post.

I'mnot going to fiddle with the sidebar. I've said this before, and I'll say it again (starting to sound like a scratched record) – websites filled with all manner of crap look like badly organised jumble sales. I want people to read the crap I write. Yes, it's crap, but I'm not about to ladel hundreds-and-thousands all over it, and dress it up with chocolate chips. They're just words.

So nope. Not going to fiddle. And this qualifies as a shorter-form post, probably. Unless I rant on a bit more.