Upgrades

I know from a long history with computer “upgrades” that it’s generally a huge mistake. How many times it will take before I accept this I don’t know, but I foolishly upgraded to the new blogger a couple of weeks ago. The result was that I was no longer able to post with a little tool I’ve been using for a couple of years – multi-blog – to post to all my blogs at one time.

Of course, none of this was clear until many, many, many emails were exchanged. Eventually I learned that blogger has changed how their system works, which means no third party tools will work any longer. So, they all have to be updated. And the guy who wrote multi-blog is not interested in doing that.

So I found a new third party tool, hoping the long road of upgrades was about to come to an end for this go ’round. Unfortunately, there’s a teensy little problem – it doesn’t work with blogger either, despite what it says on their website. Add to this that blogger was having some publishing problems for about a day, and it has been a huge mess, which is why my usual regular publishing has been sporadic.

I’m at an impasse. I want to keep all the blogs up to date, but I have to have a way to do that, and by hand through the blogger system is not it. That’s way too time consuming and too clunky to deal with. But, it’s through the magic of blogger that things show up on patsyterrell.com.

I’m hoping things are resolved shortly, but in the meantime things may be a bit off kilter here. Even when I thought I was publishing it sometimes wasn’t showing up. However, livejournal is working fine so that blog will be up to date.

Whenever computer “improvements” occur, I generally spend a lot of time mopping up. This has been no exception.