Forcible Upgrade

Darn you, Blogger. I was just forced to upgrade to the new Blogger, which would have been fine if there were any new features I particularly cared about, but really, as far as I see it this is a lot of hassle without much progress.

What bugs the heck out of me is the fact that I happen to have two gmail accounts, one related to this blog and one where I receive all of my school email. I HATE that I now have to sign out of my regular email account, which I am accustomed to having open all the time, in order to blog. I think this is just dumb. There are, of course, solutions, such as opening blogger in a different browser (safari rather than firefox, not just a different window) or using mail to download my email, but I think either of these is an unnecessary inconvenience. Grr.

It also sucks that in the process of transferring, Blogger threw all of the links in my sidebar into one large list that is then not easy to separate out into the 3 categories I had before. This does give me the opportunity to rethink and reorganize my lists, but again, it's certainly more hassle than progress. I'm not going to have time to do this for at least a week, since I'm in New York and have more important work to do. So if you just got cut from my link list, I apologize, and I will fix it in a week or two. Feel free to drop me a note about it if you want.

And in all this, I thought the advantage was that the templates would be more easily customizable, but I still can't manage to change the background color of this to a slightly less bright pink. And there still isn't much in the way of purple options, which would make more sense for something called violet. I assume most of you read this in a newsreader of some sort anyway, but if not and you have opinions on how it should look, I'd love to hear them.

Of course, prophecy boy is right when he said this is why you use something that's fully customizable instead of locked into templates and whatnot. But I was intimidated by that thought and not that serious about it when I first started blogging and I didn't have any serious problems with blogger until now. Sigh.