Now that Blogger is out of Beta it does seem to be pretty stable. I do like the fact that as the author of this blog, I no longer have to do any word authentication when I respond to a comment here. It used to peeve me slightly - am I going to spam my own blog?!
Having said that things appear to be working well, I’ve noticed that the date for this year’s posts in the Blog Archive listing down the right hand side of the screen is 2006 instead of 2007. This means I have two listings for 2006, and instead of January 2007 everything I’ve written so far this year is listed as December 2006. Not sure how to fix this - I’ve checked my template and settings but can’t see anywhere I can do any tweaking. I notice that this same problem appears on Feral Library Tales too - it’s slightly reassuring that it’s not just me, I suppose.
No time to investigate further this morning - best finish doing all the last minute things (like the dishes and emptying Baubles the Cat’s litter tray) and get ready to go to Sydney. I’m hoping to get online at least once a day (if only to check email) but I’m not sure how much blogging there’ll be over the next few days.
Just came across a bad bug in Blogger Beta. Blogger Beta users, don’t use the Feed Page Element!
Click on picture for more detailLast night when I tried to look at this page all I got was this message: “We’re sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.” I don’t know about you, but messages like that, well, they irk me. So unhelpful just stating the obvious while not giving any clues at all.
I left it last night hoping it would all be fixed when I got up, so you can imagine the heart-sinking feeling I got when I saw that it still wasn’t working this morning.
Thank goodness for other users - of course I was not the only Blogger Beta user with this problem, and I found a post on the Blogger Help Group from another Blogger Beta user who reported that when they removed any feeds they added to their blog, voilà ! everything worked fine again. So I took out the lint feed (which I added yesterday morning), and we’re cooking with gas once more.
I hope they fix this bug soon. I was really pleased to see the feature as it’s a very easy way of adding a feed to the page (you basically plug in the feed URL as a “page element”) but needless to say it should be avoided at the moment as it will make your blog inaccessible!
