Amen, sister!
Why can't the Blogger gnomes stop tinkering..?! Having spent the past few years "making improvements" that just serve to piss off their users - like the fact that if you make even a slight tweak to a recent post it shoots to the top of the Reading List, or the fact that none of the "widgets" that sit in the side bar have their "quick edit" menu any more - this weekend they've changed the way photos are uploaded, which makes flap-all difference to the way individual posts look, but means that there is no "thumbnail" of a featured picture in the Reading List (so now all the previews are just plain text). A minor irritation in this Omicron/Putin/Boris/storm-damaged world maybe, but it keeps the blood pressure at boiling point.
Sigh.
As we wearily open our laptops again for another jolly week in work, on this Tacky Music Monday there is always a saviour - who else but that triumph of art over nature, our Patron Saint Cher?!
Nothing else matters now.
Have a good week, dear reader.
What - no sideboard pictures???? What does this mean for us Wordpressers who like to invade Mr Devine's blog with our giant photos???? There used to be a button somewhere in Blogger that allowed you to choose if you had pics on your sidebar - has that gone? I will have a look and stop asking annoying questions.
ReplyDeleteHave a good week!
Sx
I don't know how sideboard photos work, as I don't have that particular widget - however, I scrolled back TWO WEEKS to when Mr DeVice last posted anything (hint, hint, IDV) to find his blog, and pictures do still show up. So you may carry on terrifying him with giant pink ladies and enormous ships on the moon, or whatever.
DeleteWhat I am talking about is the Blogger Reading List - the "feed" of all the blogs I follow - where they now don't appear. Jx
Of course, our girl Cher gets the attention of the two gays in the big rig. Girl is outta sight, dyn-o-mite. At the time, she'd invested heavily in a roller rink, thinking roller disco was something with a shelf life of more than five minutes. Girl lost her bankroll and her career went the way of Linda Blair's Roller Boogie - for a bit. Her 'rocker chick' persona would rectify any and all damage done by roller disco's tarnish in short order. Thanks for the memory. As for Blogger... I dunno... roll with the punches, dear - just like Cher!
ReplyDeleteCher hadn't had a hit here in the UK since Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves in 1971, so hardly anyone remembered who she was. Then Dead Ringer for Love with Meatloaf happened a decade later - and the rest is gay history! Jx
DeletePS Roller Disco - a trend that never really caught on, no matter how many times they tried to revive it ("ironically" or otherwise). Basically, who wants to risk a broken ankle when you can get shitfaced while propping up a bar?
Wordpress is no better; "innovations" to attract new customers that screw up everything for no purpose and which just piss off those of us who've managed to figure out the last batch of improvements.
ReplyDeleteI wish I understood why these geeks find it necessary to keep doing these annoying tweaks. Then I think - "they're geeks. That's all they have in their lives." Jx
DeleteThose truckies! Whooah!!! They must makealottamoolah to have such good dentition.
ReplyDeleteAnd Cher? Still got what it takes.
I doubt she's on roller skates much these days, being as she's 75 years old... Jx
DeleteThank you! When I scroll my reading list, the thumbnail pics vanished about a month ago maybe? It's a relief to hear someone else has noticed this too. What an "innovation!"
ReplyDeleteI know - it's almost as if the geeks behind the scenes never actually use Blogger... Jx
DeleteCher is a good start to any week.
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Gawd preserve us from things being improved
If It's Not Broke, Don't Fix It !
Unless, of course, it was Cher who broke it. Jx
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