UPDATES ?
I'm not sure what this post will end up being. As I start drafting this post it is only a few days before the end of September and I still haven't decided what to blog about. Sure I have some drafts in my posting queue, but they aren't ready yet. Many require scanning that I have yet to do, even some that have been sitting for years in my post draft queue. The recent format changes that Blogger did has really hampered the way I do my blogging to the point that I sometimes think of just abandoning the whole damn thing. But I have 3 blogs to juggle. UGH. I am also wondering if maybe there is some other blogging platform I can use that is similar to what Blogger was?
Back to the Blogger format change thing: In the back of my mind, however the solution is to go into even more debt and spring for a super long greatly needed computer upgrade replacement. We're talking an ancient HP laptop using Windows XP that can't upgrade Windows (or Google or Chrome, or Firefox or more recently YouTube) so many frequently used sites are not allowing access anymore. Getting a new computer would mean that I don't have to do this new thing with the copying the scans onto a thumb drive thing, then working on the post on my work laptop, which I sometimes bring home but don't like to bring home. It has been ages since I have seriously looked at all the tech specs of "current" computers to do some semi-educated new computer shopping. IN the 1980s and 90s I used to keep up with all that crap, now days I don't even bother. If the thing connects to the internet and allows me onto the sites I use the most then I am fine. When I do get a new computer it will most likely be a notebook/laptop with regular PC Windows not the dang tablet, smart phone "Mobile" versions. UGH I hate when those devices default to the mobile version of websites. I can do some stuff with my tablet but it is annoying. Doing something as detailed as making a blog post is NOT a task for a tablet or a droid smart phone.
1 comment:
The new Blogger isn't perfect, but it does sound like most of the problems that you're having are being caused by your equipment. The one good thing though, is that if you don't need all the bells and whistles, decent laptops are fairly cheap these days. You also might want to see if there's anyone local who builds/repairs them. My mom's laptop died last year, and she found a local guy who repairs them to try and fix it. He couldn't (he was able to recover everything from the hard drive though), but did mention that he also builds/reconditions laptops on the side, and ended up building her a new one with more stuff on it than her old one, for less than she could've gotten a new one at a big box store. It works really well too, I know that if mine ever goes out, I'm gonna be going to that guy to get my new one as well.
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