The Hourglass

If you use WordPress, then you know that at the bottom of the Dashboard in the administrator's area, there is an array of gray boxes, advertising recent news items regarding WordPress features, development, and related blogging issues in general. The other day, one item in particular caught me eye. It is pictured on the right. The line-break between the words stress and free caused me to read the first line as the main title and the second line as the sub-title, as if it had been written thus.

The Art of Stress: Free Blogging

So my first interpretation of this title was that the article would make the case that free blogging (either blogging pro bono or using blogging tools that cost nothing like WordPress and the like) causes not just stress, but the kind of stress that is somehow aesthetically superior. All right, that last part is a little ridiculous, but since I am relatively new to blogging, almost anything seems plausible.

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