I Should Probably Find Something Interesting To Say Here, But Apparently That'll Have To Wait

I had a Blogger account previously, but no blog on it. Now I do. Why not Diaryland, or MySpace, or Livejournal you may inexplicably want to ask despite that being a pretty damn boring question. Well for starters, Diaryland was nice and it was cozy, but a little clunky and I just plain moved on. MySpace is the ungodly spawn of Satan, if Satan were possessed by way too many wannabe hit bands and teenage girls and chose to tattoo himself with clunky flash banners, subsequently bought up by Rupert Murdoch, who then chose to implement an "anti-pedo" defense system that is pointless and infuriating to the extreme (did you hear about the poor woman who happened to have a name similar to a registered sex offender who had a birth date over two years apart from hers and didn't even live in the same place and whom she looked almost nothing like, yet the poor woman got deleted from MySpace? They thought her having a birthday - but not birth year- a few days away from a sex offender somewhere with the same name couldn't even conceivably be a coincidence, despite the fact that the database they use covers the entire country, a country with a population of over 300 million people, half of whom happen to be female, and no doubt many of whom have similar names - hers was something really common like "Michelle", too), not to mention it's pointless as a system, because all they need to do is give MySpace a different name and address and the like, and they may well slip through the cracks and at any rate, from what I've heard it's ANY sex offender, not just say, rapists and child molesters, and surely you've heard of those myriads of ridiculous cases where somebody ends up being labeled a sex offender for say, stopping on the side of the highway to take a piss in the bushes or mooning someone out a bus window during your "stupid git years" in college, and the person gets labeled a sex offender and has trouble finding jobs in certain fields and everybody anywhere he moves to knows he's branded as a "sex offender" with some vague and scary-sounding offense descriptor like "indecent exposure" or "indecent exposure in front of a minor" (the guy who peed by the highway allegedly was arrested under some similarly-named charge, because back up in the car and presumably out of view and too young to notice anyway was the guy's infant son), or whatever, oh and the thing is probably THE single slowest blogging server I've ever seen, and while it's nice to be able to adjust the backgrounds like that and all, honestly, it's too much hassle, especially if, like me, you're one of the many people still stuck with a 56k internet connection the majority of the time... really, need I say more? Because I could, I really honestly could, I could go on all day with how infuriating and mind-bogglingly stupid and inconvenient and overly-restrictive and yet completely incompetent MySpace has always seemed around me, but really, I've already devoted way too much space to it, haven't I? Suffice it to say, having tried MySpace, honestly really tried it for several months on and off, and having tracked news and updates about it, I can honestly say that in my humble opinion MySpace sucks. Royally sucks. And that is why I do not use it.

As for Livejournal, I've been using it for some time now actually and if MySpace is the spawn of Satan, Livejournal (to continue the already trite and silly metaphor as far as I can into the nearly-inexplicable) can honestly be compared to what in my experience is the average normal American Christian - for the most part, honest, hard-working, often criticized but not always justly, clean, presentable, lets you keep to yourself for the most part, doesn't always like what you say but will usually let you say it anyway, imperfect but not too awfully bad, and occasionally they sell little trifles online. Also, way, way better than the Spawn of Satan, for obvious reasons.

However, their servers no longer seem to like me anymore. I have been completely unable, every time I've tried for the past few weeks, to log in to my account and today - where I can't even get the LJ main page to load for me - was kind of the last straw.

Thus far, Blogger actually seems pretty good. It's clean, efficient, easy to register with if you've already got a Google account, loads quickly, and seems overall to have good healthy servers that don't inexplicably hate me, and a very easy to use text-editing box. I don't know what to compare it to, and considering my boyfriend just popped in to pick me up for something and has people in the car waiting for him, perhaps methinks I shouldn't bother with continuing the increasingly overextended metaphor anyway. Ooh, and look, it saves drafts as you type! Always handy.

Suffice it to say, though, if you're one of the, let's say, six or seven people who even remotely cares about where "Runa27 from Livejournal" has gone to, um, here I am.

For the moment, that's really all I have to say. Or can. Considering the people in the car and all.