As you noticed, the fiction blog that temporarily filled the space usually occupied by The Aardvark Speaks is gone again. I hope that the few people who read it enjoyed it, but contractual obligations forced me to remove the online version now that the print version is available. Comments and feedback on the novel are still welcome in the comments of via e-mail to singhspeculation.gmail.com.
The Aardvark Speaks has returned for now, with less effervescence and appearing more like your average lame librarian blog. Having managed to reduce my readership from several hundred to just a handful through months of not updating it and having failed terribly to attract new readers through Mr Singh Has Disappeared, I have no revolutionary new concept about what I'll be doing here other than filling space and time until my next fiction project.
The page layout is still temporary. The picture at the top is very temporary. All of this may or may not change in the near future.
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Is "The Aardvark Speaks" now going to be in German, English, or will some entries be in German and some in English?
I had planned to blog in English, but since my blog software has for some reason installed the templates in German even though I wanted the English ones, I might reconsider.
Now, letting your software decide on which language you are going to use really seems somewhat lame to me ;-))
On the other hand, imposing German although you checked English is quite patronizing for a software. Does your Apple speak German or is your software reacting to the language surroundings of your webspace?
I am somewhat reminded of my attempts of uniting text pieces written on at least two different releases and three different languages of MS Word. The authors all wrote in English, mind you, but the formatting tags, count fields etc. were all incompatible with each other. A living nightmare...
Yes, I'm also not happy with the fact that my software is trying to outsmart me, figuring that I want a German-language blog because I'm using a German-language browser, but that's what you get in a world where software products are geared towards the lowest common denominator.
PS. Movable Type is installed on the web server, not the computer. Therefore it would react exactly the same whether I used a Mac, Windows, Linux or whatever.