Blogger: A Nightmare...

Well, I have to say that blogger is becoming a nightmare for me. I already wrote about versioning feature missing, but now I have four more complaints.

First, try to open some existing draft post and press ^Z constantly. What will happen is that at some point your complete post will disappear!? Now, your reflex will be to close edit tab without saving changes. But, that is a big mistake! Autosafe feature already kicked in and, no matter that you've said it's OK to lose changes, the post is gone for good. In other words autosafe feature should save independent copy of post, not overwrite the existing until I click Save button!

And while I'm at that, second thing that annoys me is that I sometimes click on some draft in order to see what I wrote in it, and autosafe feature saves unchanged version but it also updates a timestamp and this post comes to the top. I don't want it to be on top if I didn't change anything in it!

Third, if I change something, and later I'm not satisfied, there is no way I can revert changes. There is no way to make snapshots of the post.

Finally, the editor itself is catastrophic! It is simple, that's true, but that is everything that is positive about it. Sometimes, it will not allow you to add space, and frequently what you see in edit mode will be different from what you see in preview mode, not to mention different font sizes! One thing that it does is very annoying. If you click on one paragraph and make formatting changes (e.g. bold, font size) and then you go to the later part of the text (e.g. two paragraphs lower) it transfers formatting even though it is completely different!

Google! Can we get a better Blogging tool?! Or otherwise, I'll seriously start to consider switch to WordPress...

Disclaimer: I have to say that I'm using Firefox 16 with different plugins, among others NoScript and RequestPolicy which might influence Blogger's behavior. But I, as an ordinary user, don't have time to investigate this, and, I think NoScript is important component of my protection.

Higgs field vs. Higgs particle...

Well, it turns out that this week there will be a press conference in CERN that will present results of the search for Higgs particle. It could be that the physicists will not find it, or it could be they found some sign of its existence. Anyway, reading article What if there is no Higgs boson, a found a blog with The Higgs FAQ 1.0. If you are not physicists, like me, then I strongly recommend that you read that particular FAQ. It explains very good what's all the fuss about Higgs particle is, and basically stresses that the particle itself is not so important as it is the Higgs field! Actually, it seems to me that the Web site with The Higgs FAQ has a lot of material easy to understand for lay persons so I also recommend that you look into it.

My first entry, something about design...

So, I just managed to chose template. The simpler the better. The other problem is that currently I'm using UMTS/GPRS to access Internet and it's sloooooooooow! And that's enough to make me very nervous. So, no fancy features for now. Anyway, in time I hope I'll customize these pages better.

And I'm still figuring out what can I do with this blog system.