Blogger fail

Blogger has been a total pain just recently. Probably for about a fortnight now. They're supposed to be changing over to a new platform. I know this because they've been bragging about it. Bragging. Word of advice: never brag before the event; do it after when you know it's all gone to plan, rather than before it all goes to pot.

Two weeks ago the whole thing fell over and we couldn't get on. They did a restore, minus everything that happened on that day. Then, a few days later, they restored the other stuff that was missing. I have no idea yet what's happened this time. But I do know that lots of users are struggling to get on via different browsers, most notably on mobile phones that are not iphones or androids.

If this is Blogger making a new "app"-based product, they need to consider the thousands of people that still don't have app-happy phones. If it continues to play up, I shall be going elsewhere. And that will be a shame because I do like the way it works and looks and how you can make it look like an interactive website. Usually.

It's interesting, I suppose, that Blogger is something to do with Google these days, and I've been having problems with Google too since they made their dashboard "bigger and better". Erm, no. There's a Google fail too. It's got so complicated, difficult and time-consuming that I'll be leaving them completely too.

What a way to run a successful business.

Anyway, in other news ... today I'm being a freelance writer again. I took Saturday off in the end to do some running around, and I had yesterday off to visit my mom and dad. The whole time I couldn't get onto Blogger via my phone to reply to people. It even wanted me to sign in to read the bloomin' thing.

Today may be a bank holiday in the UK - and looking at the much-needed rain falling incessantly it must be bank holiday - but I have a deadline tomorrow so I'm going to work today and tomorrow. Once it's finalised (and they've moved the goalposts so many times I'm starting to wonder if it ever will be) (that's the ultimate end customer, not my customer - they're pulling their hair out too), then I'll have my time off.

I have de-cluttering to do, I have a bedroom to clear for the electrician, decorator and carpet fitter, and I have to go and see a woman about a dog ...

So far today I've had my starvation um, calorie-counted breakfast, I've put a washload through (and am hoping it may brighten up later so I can hang it out), I've walked up to the village to get a newspaper and some extra milk, and I've updated the gig list a bit. For the rest of the day I'm writing.