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Google's Blogger and FireFox Don't Play Well Together

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After lamenting my installation of ie9 the other day, I was trying to do an update to one of my other blogs in FireFox. After several frustrating attempts, I opened ie9 and went into Blogger and the update went as smooth as could be.  After having been in the computer business of over 25 years and using computers  for 31 years you would think I would be resigned to the continued incompatibilities.
Sadly I'm not. I guess if I was a programmer I could do something about it, but I am not. So instead all I can do is complain. 
This pic has nothing to do with my post except,
I love the TV show and well..let's leave it at that.

Speaking of which, the abysmal Call of Duty, World at War that I was patching, crashed my system beyond recovery on the 5th of 7 patches. I'm leaving it sit for awhile so the steam can vent from the room. Luckily no one from Activision was nearby or my frustration could have ended with me incarcerated. What kind of idiots produce a computer video game that demands a 392mb patch let alone 7 multi mb patches? Alas the world of computer and possible the world has a plethora of idiots. Take in case the multiple stop sign runner I was behind this morning. Oh, well I hang with the good guys and avoid the bad. Someday I may buy an Apple and see if all the stupidity of the PC world is there too.


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