Problem Solver

So this is apropos my previous post which some of you may have seen when it was missing the picture. There seems to be a problem with uploading pictures to blogger if you are using Safari on a Mac. I was frustrated at first because I thought that I was doing something wrong until I poked around a bit and discovered that, no it was blogger's issue and not mine. I was momentarily placated. Then as I read through all the problems people were reporting with uploading pictures on their blog (the same issue over and over again I might add), I got frustrated again. Not because of the renewed feeling of being upset with my blog, but because I was upset with the people reporting the problem. It is one thing to say you are experiencing a technical difficulty, but quite another to scream it at the tech people and tell them how frustrated you are and how long can it possibly take to get it fixed.
I have never really thought of myself as a problem solver, but now I am forced to think that I must be in the general scheme of things. If something doesn't happen the way I want it to, I try going about it a different way until it does operate satisfactorily. This is standard operating procedure for me and for most people I am friends with. I have found however that not everybody goes about things in this way. More often than not people will throw their hands up in frustration and complain to the person nearest them. If I am that person next to them I suggest a way to fix it, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I don't come with answers, but I certainly do what is in my capacity to find them. I highly dislike those people who just complain and give up, declaring that they are no technology, math, science, VCR, remote, rat cage, etc. expert. Not being an expert is no excuse for giving up!
It bothered me that the people were so snappy and rude when complaining about the picture uploading problem to the tech people. They obviously are now aware of the problem and are trying to fix it, so please do not repeat again that you are frustrated or yell at them for not having fixed it already. As it turns out, they still have not fixed the problem, but you will note that I have gotten my picture up on the previous blog. How resourceful I am! I used another browser. So simple. Stop complaining.
Next time you encounter a problem you cannot solve immediately, step back, have a think, try going about it a different way. You don't need to give up then oppressively lean on someone who might know how to fix it. It will not make them want to help you in the future.
On a somewhat different note, I make have found a way to be a sloppy Gemma version of Google thanks to the simple questions of one Miss Erin: "How do you display search results for other things?" Brilliant! I think I shall call it Gemoogle. I like the way it rolls off the tongue.