I'm back, maybe

So I'm slowly recovering from last week's trauma. Maybe ready to resume blogging again.

Of course, right now I'm still hung up on housekeeping issues. I did indeed cut and paste in all my Haloscan comments, despite the best efforts of Blogger's spam controls. Apparently, there's some maximum number of comments you can post within a certain amount of time; if you exceed it, Blogger thinks it's spam and disables all commenting on the entire blog for several hours. This happened three times before I figured out that I could get around it by repeatedly disconnecting and reconnecting my internet connection, which changed the IP address and tricked Blogger into thinking I was a different person.

I also added and cleaned up some of the links, got rid of some of the little icons I didn't like, and changed some of the colors. Nothing too drastic, but I at least like it a little better than the defaults for this template.

Anyway, I should hopefully have something more interesting to say soon. Not that I'm sure you don't love hearing all about my comments or the color of the links, or that I learned how to make a favicon, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it's probably not that interesting to you. I don't know. I could be wrong. But in any case, I think I'm done with the tinkering for now, and actual substantive posting should resume shortly.

Well, that's that

Looks like I successfully changed the template. I miss the old one already. *sniff*

I'm also sad that I've lost all the Haloscan comments. I'm switching back to the Blogger comments because they have the feature that emails you when you get them (Haloscan actually did have it, but you have to pay for it). The Blogger comments don't seem to have all the problems now that they had back when I started using Haloscan (really, it's that Blogger itself seems to be much more stable), and they work properly with the new template (with the old template, which was designed before they had comments, they wouldn't pop up from the main page).

Technically, I still have all the Haloscan comments stored in my account there, and in theory, I could cut and paste each one into the Blogger comments just so I could keep them attached to the posts. Obviously, now, I don't have time to do that, but I'm compulsive enough that I might just do it at some point.

Anyway, that's all for now. We now return this blog to hibernation.

Fucking Hell

So I made a few minor edits to my links today and managed to fuck something up. I have no idea how or why this happened, but the post font completely changed. None of the code appears to have changed, so I don't know what's going on, and thus, I have no idea how to fix it.

It is driving me nuts. I HATE the way it looks now. HATE. I am really senstive to aesthetics when I read, and if there's something that bugs me, I can't read it. And it doesn't work so well when you can't read your own blog.

It's just such a bummer, because I spent quite a bit of time and effort making the template look they way it does, and I liked it, and I really, really didn't want to change it. But I can't leave it they way it is now. I just can't.

I soooo don't have time to be spending futzing around with a new template, but I know that if I don't, I will be unable to function because I won't be able to stop thinking about it. I know the best thing is just to do it and get on with my life.

So if you happen to check the blog in the next few days, and things look wacky, it's just me screwing around with the new look, and it should look okay (I hope) shortly.