I'm not sure when it happened, maybe six months to a year ago, but I know it wasn't my fault. I've depended on my iGoogle page for pretty much everything. It's the home page of every computer I look at during the course of the day. It has a box for my emails, my local weather, calendars, to do lists, reminders, and most importantly, my blog subscriptions. So you can imagine how irritated I was when Google went and changed the layout. Again, I don't remember when this happened.
Everything was different. Nothing was where it was supposed to be. All of my emails were now partially open which annoyed me to no end. If I'm not prepared to read an email - I don't want to just read the first sentence. So, I did some searching and apparently there were a group of people out there that were just like me and wanted the old way back. There was a fix. Just click on this and all of your iGoogle problems will go away. So, I did. And it fixed it.
I didn't realize at the time that I was converting my iGoogle page to a base page in Canada. But at the time I didn't care. My emails were where they were supposed to be - and my little boxes were all back in their rightful place.
It has, however, causeed some problems over the last year. Being as my iGoogle page is now firmly planted in Canadian roots - every time I search for something in Google I only get Canadian results.You have any idea how long of a commute it is to get a Tree expert to come and give me an estimate on tree removal from Ontario. And I was equally frustrated to find that a website for a pediatrician that sounded great - was in Alberta.
Watching the Olympics was quite confusing...I didn't know who to root for! Who am I now? Why do I keep cheering for these people in red?!? Google is changing me from the inside out! Why do I care if they get another gold! Stop it Kerrie! Oooh! Look at the pretty red...Listen to your Google!
I tell you all of this because my Canadian iGoogle is broken. My blog subscription list hasn't "listed" anything for about 3 weeks now and I don't know what else to do - because I'm QUITE sure that y'all are still writing stuff. So, I need someone American to fix me. Send me an American patch. I'm cutting my Canadian ties once and for all.
So, in conclusion, if I haven't posted on your blog in close to a month, it's because Canada made me do it.
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4 comments:
Um, I can't fix it, but I'm confident "Canada made me do it" is my excuse for a LOT of things. I grew up in Upper Michigan. Close to Canada. So I'm allowed.
I used to like Canada until Calliou infiltrated my house. Now, I think it's evil.
Ok as the first resident Canadian, that isn't actually resident in Canada, to comment, I'll say this - Canada may have made you do it, but I'll bet we did it politely :)
Google is evil. 'Nuff said.
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