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What all these useless posts mean

Is that I did a very simple mod to
Movable Type's Blogger API implementation to allow me to distinguish
title from post by means of a string delimiter. This is not such a
great idea, because it requires the user (me in this case, but you
know what I mean) to remember to type in the delimiter, and it also
means that if I now post sans a delimiter that bad things will
happen. Where this really needs to happen is in the markup. A protocol
so to speak in the post payload. I can see where the first 5 words of
the post as default title thing came from, but I'm not crazy about it,
it almost always sounds stupid and breaks in a clumsy place. (There's
probably something of interest to be said about English word
frequencies in there, but I am not the person to say it. At least not
right this very minute.) Or perhaps the title thingie should go away
altogether. Or become optional. I read somewhere recently (Perl!
Perl! No time to Google) that people are put off by having to come up
with clever titles for every post they write. I always have a pretty
vague feeling of dissatisfaction with mine. Of course, if you want to
dissuade me of this notion, and tell me that I am just the best old
title-writer, you know where to find me. I hope. Because if you don't,
my title-writing abilities are the least of your problems.