The helping hand

Do you think my blog looks like shit right now? Me too.
I was really hoping that Blogspots new "dynamic" system for editing the looks of one's blog actually would be "dynamic" and help "make it more personal", but once again my hopes are effectively smashed to the ground by "the helping hand".

We know it best from the patronizing yet inunderstandable (yes, linguistic flexibility is a virtue) world of Microsoft, where you're never too far from a question mark or a wizard, or guide of some kind that is there to help you screw everything up without you knowing it.

Apparently, for their new fabulous operative system Windows Vista (hmm, vaguely reminiscent of another OS...) they've finally realized that the way information is communicated to the user MAY actually affect how the user perceives and understands the system.
How they could've possibly missed that is beyond me, but hey, kudos for figuring it out eventually.
Perhaps now people can feel like something other than spoon fed retards.

Anyway, so this new system of Blogspots isn't of course any real improvement. Quite the opposite actually.
First you have to choose one of fifty templates that looks like if a five year old sat down with powerpoint for five minutes. Then you can choose the positioning of different elements of the blog, which in reality means choosing if you want the links list to be on top of the personal presentation, or the other way around.
That's it, unless you wish to go and poke in the HTML which isn't easier than before.

"But hey", you argue, "isn't this the best for all the people who don't have the same interest in designing?"
Sure, templates are great for a lot of people, but to build a system on the assumption that no one of the millions of bloggers would want to alter the layout (without first attending a comprehensive course in HTML) is just fucking ignorant.

It hinders creativity and actually works against the very purpose of blogging as medium which is broadcasting information and opinions under the same conditions as the commercial medial machine.

(if you wonder why there are no links in the text it's because Blogspot by some fucking reason has chosen to remove that function for anybody with a browser that does not support their key-shortcuts)