If you are reading this, you will see that my blog header picture is all messed up. I can't say I wasn't warned because Kay at the Musings blog posted about her problem a couple days ago.
So many of my fellow bloggers have complained about the changes blogger made months ago. I have had no trouble at all, except that I could no longer post a home video.
We got a new computer last month, our first one in ten years, and now I can post a home video. Hooray. But there have been so many changes that Tom has spent days on the phone with tech people.
I am wondering if it is the new technology that has caused me to have this problem with my blog header. Or is it blogger? Anyhow, it sure doesn't look pretty. The header picture was peonies but they have gone by and the hollyhocks are stars in the garden now so I thought they would make a good header photo. I knew I was taking a chance, but I thought because I hadn't had the troubles others had that I'd be okay. Nope.
As I told Kay in a comment, there are days I want to give it all up. No more computers or cell phones. Sometimes I want to live a life that is free of screens and connections. I am driven wild with this whole cloud thing. We didn't have any cloud with the old computer, but now the Apple hard drives are small and there isn't room for thousands of photos. I feel like we are all forced to join the crowd. This is all so different from the whole ethos of the hippie life, which was to do things for yourself, and live a private life if you wanted to. Now I feel like there is no freedom like that. No privacy. No quiet.
We are wooed by convenience and ease. The words from Pink Floyd come into my head, "comfortably numb".
Gosh! I'm sorry this happened to you, Nan. But your header somehow still doesn't look as bad as mine. Sigh...
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DeleteThis is a very interesting post, Nan. I never consider giving up on blogging because I love the interaction with book bloggers so much. I never had friends or relatives I could share book thoughts with or who liked mysteries. But I can understand wanting to get away from screens and the internet. I don't do social media like facebook or twitter (other than Goodreads, which I mostly use just for tracking what I had read), so that isn't a problem for me.
ReplyDeleteMuch as I would hate to see you leave blogging, you should of course do what feels right for you.
I have had intermittent problems with blogger, but not enough to make me want to change to WordPress or anything like that.
It isn't blogging. It's just the whole idea that everything is connected. Believe it or not, I used to know a guy who didn't pay taxes, and no one ever bothered him. Can you imagine something like that now? Every single thing seems connected. And I do love the book connections. It is a double edged sword - the good and the bad about technology, but I suppose that's the way most things are, she said philosophically.
DeleteOh no Nan, so sorry about those technical issues. I rarely play with my blog in fear, Blogger will force me to give up completely. As for peonies, I have 2 plants and this is the first year in 11 years I had NO FLOWERS at all??? Not sure why the plants look healthy. I do have more hydrangea flowers than ever though it seems and my Rhodes were beautiful as well.
ReplyDeleteI never know why some years a plant does great and not another year. My peonies were incredible, and lasted a while.
DeleteThere seems to be a philosophy with these companies to fix what ain't broken. That last Blogger interface change nearly broke me and that's the truth. And they still haven't finished messing. Noticed a week or two ago that they've moved what used to be the list of blogs I follow from the right side of the dashboard to a drop-down box above. Why? What's the point of that? I haven't tried to change my header recently, was thinking I quite like the one I have and will keep it for a while. I'll leave it strictly alone now! But why should we have to think like that? It's like there's a conspiracy to make things so complicated that older people will not be able to follow them and give up. And how's that good for anyone? Sorry to rant but I get so angry and frustrated.
ReplyDeleteNo sorries needed at all. I adore your picture, and would never get tired of it! I change mine quite frequently, when I am more actively blogging, which I really hope to do again. They haven't changed any of my lists, which is strange. Why mess with one blog and not another.
DeleteIt's a blogger problem, which I encountered last month when I changed my header. I posted a complaint and found a work-around, but I'm not happy with the way my photo looks distorted. If you like, I can send you the email that I saved, but it's really not very satisfactory. So frustrating!!
ReplyDeleteI may just leave what I have for a while. I actually don't mind it that much - only that it is small. Thank you for the email, and I will read it and see if I want to give it a try, though if you still aren't happy I may just leave mine alone until maybe blogger gets it figured out.
DeleteI've read of others having trouble with their blog-header photos. I'm perversely proud of the fact that I haven't changed the top of my blog for over ten years! As my brother often remarks "There's too many "ologies" in the world these days!"
ReplyDeleteI do like changing mine with the seasons, the flowers, etc. But I can live with this as it is until they figure it out.
DeleteDear Nan, it can be rather frustrating, and I know what you mean about sometimes feeling like you don‘t want any of it in your life anymore. Like you, I detest the forcedness about it all - instead of choosing whether you want to make use of cloud services etc., there is now hardly a way around it anymore if one wants to participate in online activities, be it banking, shopping, blogging or simply looking up information.
ReplyDeleteAs I make my living with Privacy and Data Protection, this concerns me very much, and I am worried about the direction things are seemingly taking more and more.
Thank you for this. It makes me feel better that I am not the only one with these concerns. I am amazed at how readily people give up their info just for the ease of doing something online.
DeleteNan, that was wonderfully said. I too am tired of the constant screen time too and am not sure how to quit it. I enjoy the interaction with most people but we spend far too much time with tablets in our home. Ugh. Not sure of the solution.
ReplyDeleteLove the Pink Floyd quote.
I am not online, per se, that much, though I do miss blogging and want to try and get back. It's the way every single thing seems connected. We seem fascinated by gadgets and "the new".
DeleteI'd like to change my header photo by did read Kay's problems and now yours so will not try to mess with it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'd wait a while. I've had so little trouble with blogger over all these years that I can't really complain.
DeleteI think that is Blogger. I have given up several things including my blog. It was just too annoying. I just had to get a new computer too. It is making me crazy.
ReplyDeleteGood luck! It has been quite stressful dealing with all the changes. We waited too long. Tom hadn't been happy with the Apple offerings since 2011 until this year. We were two operating systems behind. I wonder if maybe, just maybe, your blog might be easier to deal with using your new computer.
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