blogger chatiness limits whingewidth
Blogger is not a tool that can be ameliorated into something good; it would be better to start from scratch. One quirk: to add a picture for illustration, a lot of back and forth is required between the web page and their service. Since picking a file, or picture, is a standard form control, the amount of back-and-forth needed is zero. Unless the internet connection is fast, consistent, and with no packet loss, blogger fails to bring up the over-complicated dialog that is the next step in selecting your picture. This is silly. And the connection here is not that bad -- it's been fine, even fast, for browsing a variety of other web sites. This does bring up a serious point, which is that web (and other) software should explicitly state the connection parameters it targets, and it should then be tested with those parameters, instead of just over the LAN from the office next door. You don't have to actually go on the train, you should be able to set up a...