end of an era. i am the biggest supporter of blogger out there. the original blogger, not just the act of blogging. i have stayed true to it despite the whizbang technology of other programs. it was the first, it was the best, it had t-shirts and bags. it was the application that became the term, like google or kleenex or xerox. and now it's changed. and although my loyalty does not waver, my hands do. i don't know where to go on the new interface, it's too much. too many tabs, too many buttons. in streamlining the site they made it more confusing. sure, a beginner can sign up for a blogger in fewer steps but who cares if actually writing and publishing blogs are so much harder?



i like the new design i guess, it is kind of pretty and clean. i like the fatty icons and the art -- although i'm not sure why everything has to be so damn big like reader's digest, nobody here is blind, most bloggers are teenage girls who see just fine thanks. i like the neat statistics about your blog and how many posts you've had. i'm not sure i like the whole profile page addition, but i don't see that impacting anything anyway. i do however, love the new templates and how much better they look than any of the old stock ones. there's some neat new html tags to play with. i like the optional title and link fields. i like the ability to preview. i think i like the ability to upload a file (haven't used it yet). i like how they finally have a commenting system -- although making you have to sign up to post, or to post as "anonymous", is so xanga (ie. retarded) so i'm sticking with my old system. i guess after reading through everything about the makeover, blogger does have more features and is empirically better.



but somehow i feel like i came home to a girlfriend who just got implants and i'm staring at them and kind of afraid of them and going "why honey? you were beautiful before..."



i tried to give the new interface some time to grow on me. i gave it forty eight hours, two whole days. that's more of a chance than i give to most humans. but i've decided i just don't like it. they took her natural beauty and ravaged it with too much makeup. there are too many windows and clicky things you have to navigate through. try writing an entry, posting it, and then going back to republish it. in-between you have to go to the page where they show you the "percentage published" with the flashing icon. do i really need this? just leave me on my page and tell me when it's done publishing, save me a click through. i also feel like the whole page loads slower, and the server is suddenly getting weird and i can't log out of different accounts. annoying.



but maybe they'll fix a few things and everything will be perfect again. even with this drastic upheaval, i have no thoughts of turning my back on blogger, after all, i am the king of committment, through thick and through thin. till death or computer crashing do we part.