In the news....

It's hard to feel a lot of sympathy for a company whose stock is on the sunny side of $500.00 a share, and whose web services like Blogger often lack the kind of care and attention one expects from most online services. Things like a functioning word-wrap, or a visible log-in button - little aggravating things like that. Things that Google doesn't seem to give a damn about, as long as the bucks roll in. Rumors have it that these guys are semi -famous for abandoning projects half-finished to go for lunch, and then never returning to finish the damned thing so it actually works as reliably as one might expect. It's hard to feel sympathy for a company like that. In fact, I could tell them where to find it; it's in the dictionary, between 'shit' and 'syphilis'.

Apology:
The vanished 'Sign-in' button wasn't Google's fault. If you are using Avast Anti-virus or Internet Security, one of its add-ons for your browser is called 'Avast Online Security', and this checks all the sites you surf or connect to, for signs of malware. It also interferes with Blogger apparently - so go into your browser's 'Add-ons' and disable it. Your Blogger sign-in will re-appear. And if
you're using 'Web Of Trust' or another website checking add-on, you probably won't have this problem.

I was a bit too rough on Google maybe, but I'd still like them to fix their word-wrap so it works reliably, and also fix the formatting for 'Bold' or 'Italics' text, which keeps re-activating itself at each new line of text once you've used it anywhere within your draft text while creating a new post. That's definitely annoying, and it shouldn't be happening if there wasn't something wrong with the code for that feature. When I click on the button to disengage it, it should stay disengaged until once again selected, but it doesn't. It seems to have a mind of its own, and comes on when not wanted. I'm not a code person, so I don't know how to fix it, but I wish someone would.