Blogger Blows

I just found out how bad blogger really does suck.  This is totally burning my butt!!

I love user communication.  It excites me when I comment somewhere and they reply in an email. It makes me all WooT WooT and stuff.

Well, since my little move over here to Text Imps (wordpress based instead of blogger) all of a sudden, no one is sending replies to my comments.  I started to get very sad.  =(  Did I anger a head honcho??  Did they hate finding out that I’d converted?

Guess what — Freakin blogger isn’t giving them my email address.  That irks the crap out of me!!  Now, of course, if I sign comments using the google/blogger option, it will give them my email address.  But it will also put the blogger.com/user2089409238409382049832048023480238402384038048230 address as my webpage.  I don’t want people to visit that stupid blogger profile.  I want them to come here.  Where I am !!!  In one click!!

Name/Url gives a crappy noreply@booger address.  OpenID gives the same crappy address.  The only way to give my email addy is to use the blogger/google thing.  What kinda crap is that?  I find that to be 100% selfish.

I wish I had a million dollars!  I would pay everyone $50 just to convert to wordpress.  Wordpress isn’t selfish!  I can’t believe that google would be selfish like that!  I mean seriously!  They’re suppose to be one of the top companies that you can rely on for getting your name/business/products out there in the world.  Grrr…. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and just pretend it was an oversight on their part.

If anyone wants to move to wordpress and needs help, use my contact page and get ahold of me!! I will help!!!  I can tell you that you can host on your own server for about $5 a month.  And you can register a domain for $7 for a full year.  Get ahold of me!! I will help!!  LOL

Also, is anyone interested in a Mommy community?  One that’s hosted on wordpress?  One that will allow you to import all of your stuff from blogger and be done with it??  Cuz I’m about 2 seconds from setting one up!!

AND… if I’m wrong about this whole email/blogger business, someone PLEASE tell me!!!  Please!!!  I’d hate to be wrong but at the same time, I’d love to be wrong. I’d love to find out there’s a way to give my address to the people whose blogs I’m commenting at.

I’m off to clean the house and stew in the anger. Bahahahaaa

Packing My Stuff And Moving

Well… I did it.  I finally decided I’d had enough of Blogger.  There were just too many things about blogging there that I couldn’t stand.  I have given up & bailed.  This, will be my new home.

There are so many more things that I can do using Wordpress.  There are thousands of different plugins I can download and implement.  I know how to work a template.  I don’t have to deal with the way the pictures turn out when they’re uploaded at Blogger.  I can make my own templates & I can write my own plugins if I need to.  I love Wordpress and I knew from the very beginning that I was royally screwing up by using Blogger.  I hate the limitations over there.

I can’t stand not being in total control of my sites.  That drives me nuts.  That’s one reason I’ve also bailed on myspace & the reason I never got into facebook.  I gotta have control & that’s all there is to it.

I spent the last 10 hours importing everything from Coke On My Keyboard over here.  What a mess that was!  It turned all of my tags into categories.  Messed up a couple CSS attributes.  And the biggest pain in the butt was downloading all of my pictures, uploading them & changing the links on each of them. It wasn’t really hard to fix the problems.  It was just time consuming.  It would’ve been a breeze if there weren’t already so many posts here & if I weren’t integrating them.

The worst part is the fact that the comment import didn’t link anyone’s name with their site.  That really upsets me.  But… I’m sure all of you will be commenting soon enough and guess what… I even have CommentLuv installed for you beautiful people.  =)  Easy as pie when it’s Wordpress instead of Blogger.  LOL

I’m going to try and get back into featuring a site & post each week.  That was my main goal for Text Imps when I first bought the domain.  But my main focus is going to stay with my personal blog.

So…. Here I am.

If you subscribe to Coke On My Keyboard, please update your subscriptions.  There’s a feed button up there in the top right corner.  I also put one of those google friend thing-a-ma-bobs over in the sidebar.  I THINK you can use that to follow, just like on Blogger… but I’m really not sure.

If ya’ll have anything suggestions about the layout here, anything that’ll make navigating easier, let me know.  =D  Thanks for jumping over here.  Grab a drink from my fridge.  I think there’s water, soda and a couple kinds of juice.  Put your feet up.  And….  I dunno.  LOL…  My brain has shut off.  Too many codes flying through my head right now.