Saturday, April 28, 2007

How smart softwares and Google fail (and irritates and bugs and drives me fucking crazy)

The world cup just got over. And in spite of Australia's continued dominance and India's pathetic performance, some cricket scenes with a nice song in the background on tv set me in a romantic cricket mood and I thought I wanna write something on how this beautiful game trumps all other games.

So I type www.blogger.com

First thing, the blogger page is in Dutch! Fuck fuck fuck. Just coz I am located in Amsterdam does not mean I know to read (even if I could speak, which I also cannot) the local language; please at least give me an option to change my language setting but no I cannot find any such thing. Wow. Who project managed this whole smart language thing? Which stupid smart-ass too-good fucking engineer/project manager/team forgot about the people who live in places where they do not know the local language? How can Google - which does have the smartest guys and makes the smartest softwares - fuck up on this?

Second, Google's taken over Blogger. And I have to create a google account now (or use my old account and link it to my Blogger one). But why? I want to blog. Thats all I fucking want to do. Why is Blogger/Google troubling me with things like linking up accounts/creating gmail accounts etc? When I signed up on Blogger, I probably checked on some Blogger "Terms and Conditions". But shouldn't there also be terms and conditions that these sites - which offer you free acounts and good services and hence very nicely make sure you use them a lot and get used to them - that these sites would not without sufficient warning suddenly change themselves so much? I signed up for a particular thing; that thing itself can evolve fine - they could give me better blogging tools etc - but linking up to email? thats something I DID NOT SIGN UP ON BLOGGER FOR.

So Google, FUCK THE HELL OFF. And thanks for spoiling my mood. I loved Google. Now, I am starting to be wary of it. It is going where Microsoft went. And is fucking us all.