ok, it was a simple change in the gmail setting.

let's hope that puts an end to that...

i've just been doing this one way for so long that i don't want to change it. it's not a habit i want to revisit; i'm happy with how i'm doing things, as it is.

on top of that, i find the general premise of a computer interfering with your writing style to be invasive. that's not what computers are for, it's an overstepping of their bounds into a realm where they really don't belong. my thoughts are my own, and come from within me, entirely; the computer ought to be a dumb terminal, a slave entity, a contraption that merely does what i tell it to on command, not something that should try to interject itself into the creative process. a computer should be seen and not heard.

so, i'm never going to warm up to anything that tries to interject itself into the writing process - that's sacrosanct, somewhere no script or ai or robot pincers belongs in.