OK, one more thing before I sign off for tonight. New Blogger gives posts a time stamp when you start typing them in, not when you actually post them. I started writing that Bill & Bull post before watching the first episode of Lewis and posted it more than two hours later.

This is just something I’ve noticed, you understand - it’s not really a criticism.

Woo, posting now works with Firefox again! I am pleased.

I have posted links to the GROW! games before; two new games have appeared there since last time I checked. These are less complicated than the ones on the site earlier — in fact they are called GROW! 1 and 2, respectively, whereas the previous one was GROW! 3 — but quite enjoyable all the same. Here is GROW! 2 and GROW! 1. The latter is extra fun because once you have found the correct sequence you can go back and see what happens if you make other choices, which is often quite fun and very different. I like that kind of light-hearted creativity, very much.

I have changed to the “new” Blogger, and am very suspicious. Let’s see if it is possible to post at all. Then I’ll see what I can do about the comment function.

Editing the post: all right, that worked. And word verification appears to have disappeared in the comments. Since I know that some actual people were prevented from posting comments, that’s as well I guess. I’ll do the comment moderation thing instead: this means that your comments won’t be visible until I’ve approved them.

By the way, I activated word verification in the comments — you’ll have to look at a picture and type the characters you see, to be able to post. There was quite a bit of comment spam here and it takes a long time to remove it manually, so I guess word verification could be the lesser evil; if anybody has a problem using it let me know, though.

So, Blogger still doesn’t work in Firefox. (I can’t log in to my account, it tells me I have disabled cookies which is patently not true). I am so tired of working things being “fixed” so they no longer work.

Anyway. It’s not as if Blogger is the only site that doesn’t work completely in Firefox; I have resigned to use Safari for Kingdom of Loathing and some other sites. And it’s not the end of the world anyway.

Am not dead, and nor is the blog. However, since Google acquired Blogger, it’s become almost impossible to use Blogger. I find that having to struggle for 15 minutes to log in kills my interest in actually writing anything.

But I will write again, at some point.

Today I’ve learnt about the attribute “a:hover”. It works the same as “alink”, that is, it changes the way a link looks when you move your mouse over it. a:hover is a CSS feature while alink is a html tag, and I’m not sure why whoever created this template thought it necessary to include both. But since I don’t know CSS, I guess there might be very good reasons to do so.

In any case, links should no longer go invisible when you point at them.

Content is about 100% more important than form, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m a bit excited about the new look. Which might not be final — I have a couple of ideas which I may or may not implement later. And of course it will be a little while before I’m sure I’m happy with the look.

Notice anything different???

Another week, and I still haven’t fixed the colours. Sigh. Also, I need to learn to tell the difference between the save as draft and publish buttons; otherwise what I do write won’t be published!

Ah well. I would like to make it known that I honestly could not possibly care less about the ice hockey results in the Olympics. I know Sweden won, and that doesn’t bother me, but nor do I feel happy about it; in fact, it doesn’t change anything at all in my life in any way, positively or negatively. In a month or three I will have forgotten it to the point where I won’t be able to answer the question “who won?” — I always do that. And I hope the agitated muffin eaters will still be my friends…