Commenting issues

To my blog friends- I am having issues with my computer when it comes to leaving comments on your blogs- I have been trying and commenting but they are going into cyberspace. Beautiful Mustang, Far Side of Fifty, and Home On The Range, these are the blogs that commenting isn't working for me. The other ones, I am signed in under my Google account, and on these ones it asks me to choose a profile, so I choose Google Account and hit publish- and poof! There it was, gone. If anyone has any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, please help! It has something to do with the day I cleaned up the cookies on my computer.

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This lady is an excellent writer- she is actually writing a book too. Check it out!

A rant... sigh...

Good ole blogger is at it again. When I sign into my dashboard, it usually gives me a list of new posts to all the blogs I follow. Now, it gives me one new post, and a button to "view more"..... which of course does not work. Hey blogger, leave things alone! If you are going to change things at least make sure your changes work!!!!!  I'll try to individually visit each blog, and I hope I don't miss your posts.

A Rant- and a new web address

Issues with blogger are surfacing again. Here is the deal: I cannot stop following blogs- I use the protocol recommended to stop following but it does not work. Now, there aren't any of your blogs that I want to stop following- its the blogs that people delete for whatever reason that blogger doesn't allow me to stop following. Why is that a problem, you say- after all there are no new posts, right? WRONG! Those blogs that are deleted are still out there and their web address becomes available. Now, I have found that most people who want to start a blog are happy to use a web address that they make up. HOWEVER there are unscrupulous sorts out there that want to use a blog address that has been deleted by someone, because the address comes with the previous blog owner's followers- unless that follower is able to stop following that blog. You still with me on this? Confusing isn't it?
What I am finding is that deleted blogs get picked up by people who have what I consider to be objectionable content. This shows up in my reading list, and there is nothing I can do about it. I can't pick and choose which blogs are in my reading list; if I follow a blog, it's new posts show up there. So do the posts of the blogs that my friends have deleted that have been taken over by smutty content. I have been asking blogger for help on this issue for about a year, and have ZERO response from them. So, I'm going over to Wordpress. This may be a little confusing for those of you who have been following me at this web address, but all you have to do is save the new address, it is http://diamondlazyh.wordpress.com/ . It's still called Ride a Good Horse, and over the next few months, I'll be tweaking the look of it and the links on it, I'll get my blogroll on there soon.
I'll leave the comments open on this blog for a while, and once everyone is used to finding me over at Wordpress, I'm going to close off the comments and make this blog private- I will NOT delete it and make it available for some lowlife to hijack.
I hope you all continue to enjoy my posts over on Wordpress.

Header

Because so many of you were having trouble with my header photo going black, I used a different way of uploading, let me know if this works. The last header I uploaded directly from my photos file via the "choose file" prompt, using the option to place photo behind title and description. This one, I uploaded to Flickr and used HTML code to place it in the slot for blog description.
Hope it works better!

I'm about done with blogger

I am a lot dissatisfied with blogger, there are some issues that haven't been resolved no matter how many times I post a question on their help line.  I want to stop following some blogs that are inactive and every time I go to manage my reader list, it won't let me.

So I click there where I'm supposed to and this is what I get:

I've been getting this for over 6 months now! For one thing, I know nothing about Friend Connect and have never used it to my knowledge. I usually just add blogs to my Follow list using blogger's dashboard tools- but since they changed the interface, I can't even add blogs to follow! Very frustrating!
Is anyone else having this problem? I am seriously thinking of switching to WordPress but would like some feedback on that: can I import this blog or do I have to start a new one?
This photo of Beamer about sums it up:

Word Verification

I don't use word verification on my blog. A lot of bloggers do, and that's up to them. Personally speaking, I get very little spam, and check my comments daily so I can delete any which I consider spam.  I see blogger has decided to use absolutely horrible word verification, and as a result, I probably won't leave comments on the blogs who have that. I'll still read your blogs though, but I just don't need the level of irritation that I get from trying to leave a comment.

#$$%^%$$#$^*^$#Blogger!

Rotten Blogger isn't letting me upload a photo for my header; it makes it really small and puts it off on the left side. Bear with me as I figure out how to fix it.
UPDATE! Ha! I figured it out- I went to this photo in Flickr, grabbed the HTML code for large size, and pasted the code into the blog description spot. Where there's a will, there's a way!