Blogger

OK, Blogger has REALLY gripped my shit today.

I wanted to set up a separate blog, catering to an entirely different set of readers than this diatribal nonsense.

"Add a Blog" the blogger dashboard said.

So, I added a blog name - perfectly matching a domain I had just that minute proudly registered - then set up the "about me" and some of the other necessary elements, ready to do my first introductory post later next week.

I return to this blog and discover........ wo-aaaaahhhhh! ..... the "about me" I had written for the other blog was included on this one.

A quick check of the blogger forums helped me to discover that "new blogger" is indeed a grippable piece of shit, and you are no longer allowed to have two separate blog identities attached to the same e-mail address.

So, I deleted the newly set up blog, registered again with a different g-mail account, only to then discover that...... I can't get the blogspot name I want - remember, the one that matches the domain name? - because, presumably, Blogger's bucket of wank systems are being told it is "already in use".

Well done Blogger and Google. Nice way to piss off your users. Looks like Blogger is very much the wave of the past and it's time to shift this all my blog stuff to a service that understands the needs of its users.

updated: thanks to the kindness of a fellow user on the blogger message boards I was able to rectify the problem. That doesn't mean it wasn't still an unnecessary shit-gripping hassle. This and/or the other blog may well have to head somewhere else in the future