I don't like this!! GOOGLE is forcing me to use CHROME

After having TRIED  Google Chrome at least 3 times and also deleting it again 3 times, now I am forced !! to have Google Chrome if I want to write a post on  one of my blogs.

I am *displeased* about that!

It is quite possible that I am going to like or get used to using CHROME and if only in order use the Google Blogspot facilities, however: it does not mean at all that I am going to continue using it.
Google has been *promoting* this Chrome facility for a long time now, and until now - there was always something not right and/or conflicting with whatever else I have installed on my PC.
These softwares, by the way, are just Window7 package facilities, and a few more ESSENTIALS for me, using my computer the way that I like and suits me best.

I keep my computer and its installed software completely updated. I like my computer to be completely functional with fast easy access to websites, browsing, downloading pdf-documents, mp3's, mp4's, obviously 100% TAILORED to my likes, also my needs.

Having written all that: *all* I wanted to do really: was write a few words on this particular blog, long overdue.
That dear readers had to do with all Google Blogs blocked by the Turkish Government since late last year (2010) which does not encourage me to write spontaneously - enthousiastically.

Here in my neck of the woods, still with brilliant sunshine late October, the season has come to the end. No more local transport to my home beach Gemiler, only taxis or as a 2-legged prowler to get there, even for a spartanic quick dip in the Mediterranean.
My next-door neighbours are repairing a partitioning ancient rock wall, and as soon as that is finished: on my side, right next to my sunshine terrass a better septic tank shall be built, hooray.

One German resident here is now in Germany having another toe amputated. Whether that shall solve his circulatory dysfunctions, I fear no. But: he has 8 more toes to go or walk with.

I registered myself with Facebook! NOT because I like it or want it, my grandchildren use it daily. I tried them to write emails to me, get themselves on SKYPE-SKYPE, for really f*ree telephone conversations, but without result. So I said: OK, if you cannot beat them, then you have to join them. They accepted me as *friend* and I shall need to spend more time to get my Facebook presence properly filled out. Da*mn I said, this takes time! And on several occasions some of the Facebook facilities to *save* did not work.

I am used I am telling FACEBOOK here - to websites with facilities that function 100%.

Dr. Willy Holmes-Spoelder
Kaya Köyü, near Fethiye, province Mugla, TURKEY
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P.S. I am VERY PLEASED though that on 1st November - All Saints Day, I shall have my PASSPORT back from the Turkish foreign police together with my updated RESIDENCE PERMIT, as a Dutch citizen.
This time around instead of €425 per year, due to the Dutch and Turkish Government being on friendlier terms apparently: €60 only per year, which made me decide AT LAST to go for 4 years, i.e. the duration of my Dutch passport.
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