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Friday, October 18, 2002

Template Woes

OK, so I've been gone from blog land now longer than the Democratic party has spoken with a coherent voice in National politcs. Well, maybe not that long, but a long time anyways. It seems that Blogspot, the fine host of this collection of rants and ramblings, decided to hate my wonderful template. I'm not sure why it decided this, but it did. This state of emnity between the template code and the host rendered me unable to post. You gotta hate it when that happens. Worse than unsightly nose hair actually. So, I decide to troubleshoot the problem and when I try to load the template to poke around with it, blogger hates it even worse. I mean, at least blogspot will continue to show my old template with my old posts. I just can't add anything new. Blogger, the place that actually lets me write and modify things, won't even load up the template to begin with. My template and Blogger were acting like Mathra Stewart and Oprah in a "Good Thing" death match over napkin folding patterns (only with fewer fake smiles between the jabs and barbs). So, Blogger offers me the alluring option of choosing a new template. This is exciting! Like a new car, only cheaper and without all those sleepless nights that come with financing worries. So I choose that option and am given dozens of options to pick from. It's really like getting a new car now, lots of different makes and models in zippy colors and beautiful lines. Well, actually, most of them were pretty ugly. Big blocks of color seem to be "in" right now. I thought the Bauhuas movement had died stylistically but I guess no one told the folks who run Blogger that. So maybe my choices where not as varied as I had thought but surely I'd find something new and exciting to breathe new life into my blog. As I looked over the offerings though, lo and behold, what do I come across but my old template. And you know what? I still liked it the best. It just fit me. I mean, it's not what I would design for me but hey, picking one of theirs meant a lot less work for me. So, I'm like good to go and so I do. Click on the template and things are fixed until I notice that I've lost my links to other blogs. And then I notice I've lost my comments thingy too. Bummer. Oh well, at least I'm able to post again. I'll work out the rest soon. For now, enjoy the new and freely flowing content.

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