Unhappily Ever After

Once upon a time I was very excited about Technorati.

Very humbly put, it took me a bit to grasp what this site was all about (though the true importance of tags in the grand scheme of the universe still eludes me). But once I got past that, I was really excited--Technorati would be the magic apple that would lead to every parenting advice dream come true. I could find blogs written by other new moms! This would be so easy, what with those super-duper tags helping me every step of the way.

I typed in my key word/tags with feverish impatience; I would find out the secrets for getting my recalcitrant baby to sleep through the night! With all the wisdom from others, she would be crawling at four months, talking by six months, and walking on water by a year. I would be a baby whisperer . . . a SUPER mom!

And then reality struck . . . nothing relevant appeared, just endless listings for blogs that used the word "baby" in every way but the way I was searching for. I narrowed my search, entered new words, and still got a big fat list of nothingness. Numbly scrolling down the pages, the entries growing more and more irrelevant with the occasional foul-beyond-belief one slapping out at me, I began to grow angry. What good is this technology? My magic apple had turned out to be techno-rotten.