I try a lot of new widgets and technologies on my blog, to see what they offer and make my website more exciting1. While I can usually appreciate what they are trying to do, I more often than not find that the increased page-load times or disparity with my blog’s look usually compel me to uninstall the thing before too long. And I’m certainly not too attached to a thing to hesitate to uninstall it if it’s messing something up, or has some sort of bug.
This post is about one such widget that’s tenaciously holding on, and the reasons I’m still using it.
- I could probably just post more often, but it’s easier to install a widget!! [↩]