introduction

Welcome to my little piece of the blogosphere. I started this blog while we were adopting our daughter as a way to keep faraway family and friends up-to-date on the progress. Over the years it has morphed into more of a journal of life in our house . . . as seen through the eyes of a Canadian suburbanite living in a small village in mid-western Finland. Check out the pages above for more info on us, as well as our adoption, and it would please me well if you left a comment to say hello!

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

i need your help

After about of week of not getting any blog comments (and, frankly, feeling pretty sad about it) I decided to look into it a little bit and found out people are having problems leaving comments.

So I'll go with that being the reason it's so quiet around here.

Anyways, as you may remember, our computer crashed. Now, we're running with Windows 7 (instead of XP), and I have had to reinstall everything. I've noticed a few bugs: 1) my blogger log-in page is in Finnish - and for the life of me, I can't get it to default to English (grrrr), and 2) Windows Live Writer (which I use for writing my blog posts) is a new updated version for 2011.

So, I'm wondering is Point #2 is my problem.

Therefore, I am writing this post the old-fashioned way through Blogger.

Please, PLEASE, leave a comment on this post (and also try the last few, too) so I can figure out what the problem is.

If it won't let you comment, please send me an email at barbiejane67@yahoo.ca and let me know . . . also tell me if you are using IE or Firefox as your browser (in case that makes a difference).

The silence is deafening.

Barb

11 friends had something to say . . .:

Anonymous said...

I read your blog regularly. Love it. I usually don't comment but I will to help a sister out. I am currently browsing via Firefox. I hope that this helps and you have your little "glitch" worked out soon.
Rae in Ohio

Sally...4 boys + 1 princess.. said...

I read your blog thru Russian Blogs Galore. Hope everything is good.

Mama Fish said...

I left a comment in the last week or so, so I wonder if you got it... maybe not. My browser is FF. Hope that helps! I will try to leave a comment on an older post again too! ~Jackie

carolinagirl said...

Hope this comment finds you. I use IE!

Stacy, Pat and Aidan said...

Seems to work on this one!

Katarina said...

Och jag läser din blogg. Jag använder Firefox.

Kim Abraham said...

Barb, I read blogs through my Google Reader to save time and rarely leave comments anymore (so sorry). Your plea prompted me to click over here and I just discovered your beautiful new blog layout. I love it!

Kim

Rachael said...

I am SO behind on blog reading...I just can't get caught up since Ukraine, so I'm just starting with the new stuff. And, saying hello. Here goes, let's see if it takes the comment. =)

Anonymous said...

ok so I'm guilty of not leaving comments, I have to post as anonymous it's the only way it lets me! I use IE. Kids do not allow me much time to use the computer these days!
Andrea d

Cheri said...

Can you hear me...ahem, see me now?

Carolynn and Steve said...

comments from me, too! I usually check in once a week or so, but I have been a lurker lately (I feel like the music from Jaws should be playing as I type this!)

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