Yesterday, the hardworking staff registered for an eight-day free trial of the Boston Herald’s SmartEdition, which enabled us to produce this Paul Szep/Zip Resemblance post, complete with Scott Brown naricature.

Flash forward to today, when we wanted to post a Szep/Zip naricature of Deval Patrick from this piece.

Alas! – our free eight-day trial was nowhere in sight. Instead, the Herald repeatedly asked for our money.

Apparently, eight days isn’t as long as it used to be. At least in Herald time.