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TEST

The Becker-Posner Blog: TEST.  I've never quite figured out what it means to spew a TEST message onto the ether.  Does anyone want to know that it has been seen?  If nobody responds, does a tree fall in the woods?  I ponder weighty questions like that.

While we all wait breathlessly for the Becker-Posner blog to get going, I figured I could do a trakback ping to this test posting that made it into the Becker-Posner RSS feed.  The archive page seems to have comments and most everything else disabled.  The test message is archived but is not shown on the default page.  But the test reached me, so I want to speak up.  I can use SimpleTracks and ping the trackback URL, even without an article back on my blog (tit-for-tat, that).

My cleverness was for nought.  The SimpleTracks manual trackbacker reports that "An error occured. The TrackBack server said: Invalid TrackBack ID '567'".  That's like getting to the bottom of the Cracker Jacks only to find no prize.  A new emotion for this blogging life: dejection.

posted by orcmid at 12/4/2004 06:18:57 PM