Setting up a blog

Setting up a blog is not easy. Oh, they try to make it as easy as possible for you, but anything that gives you more than one choice about something is automatically harder. See, if there was just one format everyone had to use, only one color, one font -- that would be easy. But no. First you must decide on a user name. You must pick a name for your blog. Then you must write a description of the blog name. Then you need a name for something else, which you would think would be the same as the blog name, but the folks who run the blog think they are doing you a favor by letting you pick another name; you know, maybe you had two or three choices for the blog name and now you can use them all. It's actually good that you have several names in mind for your blog, because chances are as good as getting in the wrong lane at the grocery store that your first choice will be taken. In fact, chances are good that your 25th choice will already be gone.

After that misery is finally over, you must choose a template. Here there are about 80 to choose from. And the thumbnail sketch you get of them hardly shows you what the differences are, and so you must labor through all 80 and then try to remember what it was you liked about number 3. And after about number 11 they all look alike anyway, so they might as well spare you all those other options.

After making all these decisions, you are too tired to do any actual blogging. If they really want to offer helpful choices, why not give us templates with already published entries to choose from? For instance, you could pick #1, The funny blog: "Did you hear the one about...."or #2, The wailing woe-is-me blog: "Whyyyy does everything have to happen to meeeeeeeee?" or #3, The learn-from-me-not-from-painful-experience blog: "If you think you need to use a blowtorch to fix your toilet, think again...." Now there's a choice that would make your life easier.