Monday, 09 April 2007

blog.com sucks, even tho it's free

Sorry about the blog problems... It seems all my images from the folders inside my blog.com account have vanished/failed, and therefore no images are loading, including the banner. Thus my blog looks weirdly grey and blank.

I have everything backed-up in my laptop at home, of course, but now I'm stuck in the office, and can't do anything to fix it. I'm not sure if re-uploading will even work, however, as I've had problems trying to upload new material before. Perhaps best to abandon this crappy blog service as soon as I decide on an alternative. Grrrrr!

Any suggestions? I'm a total Google-phile, so Blogger is the obvious answer, except that blogspot and blogger domains are blocked in China. And the same goes for the free Wordpress and Typepad blogs. What with blog.com's crappiness and the Great Firewall, I am truly stuck between a rock and a hard place...

Free Image Hosting at allyoucanupload.com
image (from a 3rd-party source!): that's Blog.com, that is.

Posted by at 16:57:15 | Permanent Link | Comments (5) |
Comments
1 - I'm fairly content with Opera's free blog hosting for my personal blogging needs (you don't need to use Opera's browser to host there). They only give you 300M of space, though, if that's a concern. It's much better than LiveJournal (which I abandoned long before the blockage), and I haven't had much luck with getting consistent results from any of the Chinese blog providers. I'm not sure about ads. (Comment this)

Written by: zhwj at 2007/04/09 - 19:19:35
profile
2 - thanks for the tip. i'm checking out your blog, and the opera blog service, right now. (Comment this)

Written by: Steven at 2007/04/09 - 22:53:17
3 - www.squarespace.com

good services. its 7 bucks a month though. check out the 30 day trial.

hek (Comment this)

Written by: hek at 2007/04/11 - 08:10:49
4 - I like your blog and most friends of mine on EbonyFriends.com also like your blog. We hope you can fix it up quickly. (Comment this)

Written by: Dianel pennant at 2007/04/12 - 18:32:16
5 - how utterly random that the last comment ever on this blog (well, apart from this one) should be spam! oh well...! (Comment this)

Written by: Steven at 2007/04/13 - 00:11:19
Write a comment