Google Blogspot UI Failure -- *sigh* business as usual.

The big G has my cookie. I'm OK with that. I figure the day they mishandle the Gookie they'll take down so many Senators nobody will notice what I was up to. But the funny thing is that they still, still screw up the Blogger UI. Shall I enter your CAPTCHA? Or shall I enter my login credentials on your blog-hosting site? Or shall I do both? Answer: to post a comment on blogspot.com you must do both. At least if they already have your cookie. Because Google, being itself a multi-billion-dollar robot, thinks its users must also be robots. Better check on that.

Blogger can't parse HTML entities.

I was just setting up a post about the company formerly known as Ma Bell, and Blogger informs me:

ERROR
These characters are not allowed: &

Presumably they're worried about the dense jungle of HTML entities. The dense, well-documented, utterly predictable, routinely parsed jungle. Of course they can parse them in some places, just not in others. And of course the big G. makes it really really hard to file bugs, so we just have to blog about it.

To: Sergey
From: Frosty
Subject: Again with the Google problems!

Sergey,

You can make four billion dollars a year on text ads, you can map the
known universe, you could probably put a man on the friggin' moon;
but you can't write a regular expression.

What gives?  Is it the coke, or the bloated HR apparatus?

Get Eric on this one, it's embarrassing!