New Arrival at Blogger

This is my first blog post for my new Blogger account.

I have had a LiveJournal account under the user name of Fean77 (fean77.livejournal.com) since 2009, however, I just tried to log in to that account and create another post unsuccessfully. This was due to unreadable foreign language characters replacing most of the English ones all over the LiveJournal pages after signing in.  As I am not able to read any asian languages, let alone be able to tell the difference between Chinese and Korean, I was not patient enough to troubleshoot the problem.  I am using Internet Explorer 8 on a Windows XP OS and I did check the encoding for the page, but this yielded no help. Additional hindrance stems from the mental fuzziness of being up past bed time on Sunday night (Monday morning actually).

Thus, I have decided to try a Blogger account and see how this works out.

In the past, I'd read that even as I joined LiveJournal in 2009 it was considered by many to be past its prime.  I just read an old news post I Googled up indicating that a Russian company bought out LiveJournal in 2007 if I understood it correctly.

I have only ever had one actual person added to my LiveJournal friend list and that was the user Indigowulf (aka. Melissa Tatom). Additionally, she was not active on that site at all and we maintain contact and information sharing through other venues anhow.

Time will tell if I utilize this site's potential as a collection point for information sharing.  Also, I may or may not continue to blog at LiveJournal depending on whether I continue to have problems viewing pages correctly.