An Open Letter to Blogger

Dear Blogger,

When I first read about the "beta Blogger," I was apprehensive. Some of my virtual friends were early adopters and their blogs disappeared. Based on this, I wanted nothing to do with blogger.

Then one day, I logged on to my Blogger account, ready to compose the best blog entry ever. Okay, I just wanted to type a page and get on with my day. Upon entering blogger, I was asked, begged almost, to switch to the new Blogger. I did some research that day, and thought, "No way in hell."

So I kept posting. And Blogger kept reminding me to switch to the new Blogger. And still, I did not trust you, Blogger. You have burned my friends, and I did not want to be likewise burned.

Then Blogger, you threatened me, sort of. You said, eventually, everyone will need to change. Eventually. And like someone who just wants to see if you would screw with my blog, I ended up trying to change to the new Blogger. And Blogger, you told me that my blog was too big. Thanks for nothing.

A week or two later, I tried changing again. And Blogger, you converted me to the new Blogger sort of flawlessly. Well, you orphaned one of my blogs (recently I got it back). But other than that, my main blog converted after about eight hours.

A week or so after changing over to the new Blogger, and the blog looking the same, I decided to treat my blog to a facelift. And I love the new tools you have now. I still figured out how to do the drop-downs (tricky Blogger, always wanting to hide the good stuff), and I may change the look a little bit, but I like a simple look, so I am not hiding my words. And my blog is about my words.

One thing, dear Blogger, that I initially hated was changing to G-mail. I had to change to read a private blog of a friend. I really did not want to change. Now I am transferring most of my emailing from Yahoo to G-mail. And I initially felt guilty about it. I have used Yahoo for-freekin'-ever. Now Yahoo was great, better than most webmail that I had seen years ago, but now, many webmail applications are better. G-mail is pretty awesome.

And I have recently found YouTube, one of your recently adopted siblings. In fact, I have been playing around with dedicating one day per week to featuring a YouTube site. Critiquing the YouTube site, almost pimping it. I could get lost in YouTube, but I have work to do. It seems, dear Blogger, that you, G-mail and YouTube, all children of Google, have really had an impact on my life. What the heck are you trying to do, be the Microsoft of the Internet? But why exclude China? Can you see them as consumers as well?

Sincerely,
Leesa

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Favor - YouTube Request
Okay. Breaking news folks. As you may or may not remember, I wrote a script based on one of my posts for someone on YouTube. It is performed by a 16-year-old girl in, er, I think New Jersey. Katie is a thespian in high school, and for you guys, thespians and lesbians are not necessarily the same. Sorry, guys.



It is a cute video that is football-related, just in time for the NFL playoffs. I would appreciate you watching it. You can even sign into your YouTube account and list it as a favorite. I know you would like to make a lesbian happy today. I mean a thespian happy today. Darned typing skills.