I was going to talk about my day yesterday, which involved a five-mile hike, the planting of many flowers and tomatoes, the scattering of my mother's ashes, and my nearly fatal tumble down some steps (okay, not nearly fatal; I just skinned one knee slightly and bruised my lip). But then Blogger pulled the thing where I have to upgrade to their NEW AND IMPROVED YEAH RIGHT interface.
Why? Why why why? Gmail just got a new interface too, and I hate it for the same reasons I hate the new Blogger one: I can't read it properly. My work computer (not that I ever, ever use my work computer for anything but work; this is merely hypothetical) is very old and can't display the new interfaces correctly. On my home computer, the fields in the new interfaces are so washed out I have trouble even seeing them, much less reading them. On my laptop, the new interfaces are too spread out for me to read comfortably on the small screen.
In other words, it's BROKEN when the old versions weren't broken at all. I am now directing waves of hate at Google, who of course runs Gmail and Blogger and obviously doesn't have enough to do.
For those of you who are interested in seeing lots of pretty pictures of my hike, I've started a new blog just for my hiking stuff called Hiking Hot.
7 comments:
Google assumes we're all using their computers, I guess. I've had similar problems.
Yeah, the message at the top of my computer screen says that my browser is not supported and I should use Google Chrome. Which makes it 100% certain that I will not actually ever use Google Chrome, because I don't like to be bullied.
I am a capitulator when it comes to google. It's just easier. Facebook, however, makes me mulishly stubborn.
Oh no... This means that when my blog updates that I too won't hypothetically be able to use my work computer to blog as it has a really old version of Internet Explorer and won't load Google Reader (hence my falling back in my blog reading) or my gmail correctly.
I shall look forward to the change.
Michael--Ooh, I hate Facebook! The only way for me to simmer down and not feel so angry at Blogger is to remind myself that at least they're not Facebook.
Cate--Work computers are all junk, apparently. We're supposed to get new ones this summer, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Google keeps fixing things that ain't broke. They're driving me bat-shit insane. I have a custom Gmail layout, and when they "upgraded," suddenly my emails are against a solid black background!
Oh, that sucks! I wish they'd just leave well enough alone.
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