Montego Musings

I have not had the greatest luck - or am I really talking about “customer service” - you decide - on the Google front. They have pretty much taken over, in my mind, the “Evil Empire” status. I guess you get so big, start swallowing up companies and sites left-and-right, and next thing you are too far removed from those whom made you great in the first place.

Here I was, late last night, configuring away my new Blogger blog and posting a new post, with the intent of using their FTP publish feature to host the actual content from blog.montegoscripts.com. I had just helped a family member do the same about a month back and everything for her was working great, and I think still does.

I had gotten it to work, was publishing over just fine, and then tried to tweak a few things and re-publish and it kept timing out.

Follow up:

I eventually got a message that “blogger no longer allows you to use FTP publish using anything other than the classic [very blah] template". There goes the use of any of their more appealing looking templates as well as any hopes of creating a custom one to match my Montego Scripts web site! Probably a good thing anyways as I got to learn a new tool and now I have complete freedom to hack away at this blogging software code and template…

I have had it with them! First they messed me over with AdSense and now this. They have now been relegated to the top of my list, along-side Microsoft, as a “necessary evil". I need them for search engine results to drive traffic, but everything else is simply use at your own risk!