Google This

I am fed up with Google… really, really fed up. 

OK, my aggravation will probably last until I finish this post and then I’ll go google American Idol to find out what people are saying about “Idol Gives Back”

So, what’s my milisecond of aggravation about?  RSS Feeds  If you don’t know what that is, go ahead, click on the link. 

Anyway, I didn’t know what an RSS Feed was until about an hour ago and I’ve spent the last hour trying to get Google Reader to recognize the feed from this very page.  Of course, I don’t need a reader to tell me whether or not there’s a new post here, ’cause duh!  I write the posts.  But, I learned something new and wanted to take it for a spin…

The truly annoying thing is, I’ve been able to add other blogs to my Google Reader, but not my own!  What is up with that?

And just for the record, this is the second time in the same number of days I’ve run into problems with Google (see yesterday’s post!)

Whoo.. I feel better now that I’ve vented.  Now, if you are smarter than me, go ahead and subscribe to my blog.

While you’re doing that, I’ll be googling some help.

Is there anybody out there?

Ok, not the most clever or original post title, but hey, it’s a start.

So, here I am at WordPress… trying out the whole blogging thing.  This is actually my second attempt.  My first attempt was over at Blogspot and my last post was a couple of years ago.  Just checked it out and not only is it still there, but it’s pretty freakin’ hilarious too…. of course, as with anything you read here, that’s just one girl’s opinion.

Now of course, you must be dying to know why I would start all over here at WordPress when I have a blog over at Blogspot.  The reason began with a little geographical problem.

I know, I know the internet defies the idea of boundaries and borders.  But listen up, there is still that pesky language issue or at least I thought there was a language issue….

I recently moved to Israel (yes, that Israel and no, there aren’t bombs exploding and terrorists on every corner… today at least).  So, I’m obviously logging onto the “internets” via an Israeli ISP and when I logged onto Blogspot I discovered that all the menus are in Hebrew!  What the??!

OK.  Yes.  I live here.  And yes, I kinda speak Hebrew but words like archive, profile and upload are not in my everyday vocabulary.  So I started looking for a new blog site (hello WordPress!) while I put in a call to an IT buddy to see if there was a way to switch the language back on Blogspot. 

Turns out there is, so language isn’t exactly the reason I made the jump.

Once I figured out how to change my Blogspot dashboard back to English, Google (the new Blogspot owners) made me sign in with a Google account instead of my old Blogspot username and password.  Of course, I complied, but then!  They tried to make me create a new blog and duh!  my blog name was already taken.

I’m sure there’s some way for me to figure out how to get back into my own blog with my Google user account, but darn it, I want to start a blog today and don’t have the patience to figure it out.

So, hello WordPress.  Thanks for having me.  In English.  With my preferred blog title.