Blogger had an issue with their timestamp last evening until this morning, for almost more than twelve hours. I was not alone but with three active Blogger “beta” blogs that I tested, only one was affected.

I did a search on the internet and although some Blogger users also had the same problem, some had it worse than others in the sense that while I was able to manually input the current date and time just before publishing my post and I do not publish my post in advance, someone was thrown an error message with the dreaded bX-code when he tried to manually adjust the timestamp. Boy, was I glad that my issue was not as serious or I would have popped a vein!

Anyway, I was glad that later in the morning, everything was fine with my affected Blogger blog and I could publish my post normally. Phew!

One thing about using Blogger blogs, even though I have been facing more glitches recently that all the years that I have started my Blogger blogs, is that should a problem crop up, we just have to report it and sit tight and be patient unlike self-hosted blogs, where we have to sweat bullets trying to fix whatever glitch or beg people in the know to help out!

Blogger will soon be rolling out a Follow feature, which is like a little widget that shows off small images of your visitors. I hate that. When you come visit me, you can be sure that I will not have that widget on my blog (unless I am paid to put it up). LOL

This is because I hate to subject this on people who, like me, do not like it to be known that I have visited such and such a blog. I do not see the benefit of it except to quench our own curiosity of who among our blog friends came and read our blog.

I remember saying to a friend that her blog follower widget was breaking up her layout. I told her that she should remove it since it serves no purpose. She said that she wants to keep it because she would like to know who dropped by. DUH.

Anyway, no matter how popular such follow widgets get, I am adamant that I will not use it. I would like to maintain my privacy and I will accord this to my blog readers.