It's News to Me

Tom and David
Originally uploaded by CaptQuirk.

Last night, I went over to Tom Wright's to help him rid his computer of spyware because his system had become so sluggish that he could hardly get anything done. David, shown here in November '04 photo with Tom, has recently rented a room from Tom (to help ease the general financial burden on both of them) and he was there as well. We had fun with the project, though much remains yet undone. I was able to help speed up the system a bit, but we ran out of time before I got everything accomplished.

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This post is simply a test to experiment with Blogger's addition of the ability to post an image.

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This site has links to movie theater listings by zip code with show times, prices, and in some cases online ticket purchasing. Could be useful.

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Although Blogger Support has given me a work around, it isn't perfect yet.

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At long last, I heard from Blogger Support and they have posted a work-around for the «bug» I discovered in their handling of templates. They suggested that I insert some code into my template that seems to have resolved the problem I've had for the last three days. Hooray!!! My faith in Blogger is restored.

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To my consternation, I still haven't heard any response to my plea for help from Blogger support, aside from their automated acknowledgement of having received it. This post will reveal, no doubt, that the problem still persists.

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This post will reveal whether yesterday's posting problem, in which the title of the text and the body of it are separated by an amount of white space that equals the height of the sidebar on the right, still persists.

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After having posted the previous entry, I now note that the formatting weirdness persists but primarily with the first entry on the page. I'll have to contact the Blogger support team and ask them to look at my blog and give me some help in fixing it.

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I haven't a clue about what is causing the entry prior to this one to display in such a weird way, but if you scroll down far enough, you'll seen the entry associated with the title. If I could fix it I would, but since I haven't changed anything, I don't know what to fix. In fact, I'm interested to see whether this additional entry shows the same strangeness.

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Aside from all the oo-ing and ah-ing over seeing the «celebrities of the blogosphere» in the halls of the Gnomedex conference, the major news from the first day seems to have been Microsoft's announcement that it is building RSS support into IE7 and Windows Longhorn, the next version of Windows due out at some as-yet-unspecified time in the future. In this entry at the IE Blog Dean Hachamovitch, who made the presentation that revealed the news, gives a one page summary of the significance, as he sees it, of what this development might mean to developers and users. And the 58 minute video, which was shot by Robert Scoble of the Channel 9 team, at this link shows some of the people involved in the project (including Dean) and provides a more in-depth explanation of it along with a few views of how it might look in IE7.

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