Who Can Really Say?

The new look is due an upgrade to Moveable Type 3.2. Naturally, I had nothing to do with it. The upgrade apparently comes complete with a variety of templates, so in addition to whatever the blog is looking like as you read this, it may have looked different yesterday and may well look different tomorrow. You've got to walk around in a pair of shoes to see if they really fit, and so I will.

And, there's a bit of work to do too, to restore the blog roll from blogrolling.com, and to reinsert the tags for Sitemeter, etc. Now I'll have something to do tomorrow once the Giants jump out to a 4 touchdown lead on the Eagles in the 1st quarter.

UPDATE I -- 12/11/2005: When I said above "Naturally, I had nothing to do with it", I should have explained that I'm a neophyte at the back-end stuff required to run this blog -- my thanks to the web guruess responsible. For example, the upgrade included a variety of templates because she collected them -- not because they came with MT Ver 3.2.

Now that that's done, I get to bitch. Well, not really, but it is a pain to add in the additional bits of code to get Sitemeter to read the traffic here correctly. That's still a work in process. I've also noticed that apostrophes in the old blog posts have sometimes been converted into question marks during the import process. I don't know that there's anything I can do about that, shy of going through each prior post. More troubling, though, is that links to individual posts in the old MT 2.6 blog no longer work, because during the import process MT 3.2 renamed the individually archived blog posts. I can't believe there isn't a workaround for this, but I don't know what it is, short of running two blogs, one old and one new, so that the old one's links will remain for reference.

UPDATE II -- 12/11/2005: Apologies to the Eagles who showed up to play, but thankfully, not well enough to win.

Most of the changes are in place. The old archived post links have been restored, but they don't work as they should with the new templates, or stylesheets, or who the hell knows -- something like that. They look a little funky, but we'll figure that out, I think. The odd problem with the question marks and apostrophes will probably be fixed tomorrow, after I make my sacrifice to the HTML Gods. It requires the Web Guruess to 'fix a file" or re-confabulate the defibrilator, or something like that.

Let me know if you don't like the dark background I'm using at the moment. I'm not wedded to it -- maybe I'll leave it for the winter and get brighter in the Spring.