My Crazy Thoughts
my thoughts on various topics.

I first started "blogging" a long time ago. Back before I even knew that was what it was called. I posted a couple journal type entries to a web-site I created. The I moved over to an aol subprofile, but that didn't last long because it had so many pop-ups that it took me 10 minutes just to start my post and then while I was typing I would get interupted with pop-ups that would stop my typing and it was annoying. It's been a long time, back before pop-up blockers. Then I read an article in the newspaper about salam pax. And that is where I first heard of blogger. I opened an account and have been blogging ever since. Blogger has changed a lot since then. They've added a lot more functions and are now owned by google, which is the best search engine out there. I've had very few problems that weren't directly related to their growth. I once found that my web-site had been taken over by someone else. It turns out that it was not actually taken over, but rather missplaced...or something...I don't know. I e-mailed them and they took care of it right away. But this was before blogger was bought by google. While I love google and the functionality they have brought to blogger, I am finding those problems that everyone worries about when the big companies buy the little ones. You see, now I have another problem. I think it probably isn't that difficult, but it's also not something I can fix on my own. So when I discovered my problem. A problem not covered by the multitude of faqs. IN fact, the faqs seem to say that my problem shouldn't be a problem. I should be able to move my blog, and then reclaim my old url. And when I do move my blog a copy of the old site shouldn't remain. But I can't reclaim my old url and an old version still exists at the old url. I understand that they no longer allow certain characters in their urls, but since mine was already being used, why can't I have it back? I really think it wouldn't be difficult for someone to address...and that leads me to my problem. You see, the people at Google, they are busy. They are a huge company and I guess they just can't have enough people sitting around waiting to solve the problems of all their users. So...it's been a week since I filled out the little help me survey and then replied to their reply telling them that I had already been through the faqs and they hadn't helped me and I still haven't heard anything back from them. Nothing. So...I have no idea if or when I will ever find out how they are going to help me out here. And until then, I have a dead web-site out there that I have no control over and no ability to redirect. Blah!

posted by Malissa at 11:27 PM