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I’m still saying good things about the new blogger, for the most part, but I realized after much deliberation that what I don’t like about it is the “out-of-the-box-blogging-for-dummies” feeling it gives me. I learnt practically everything I know about html and css by monkeying with my blog templates, and those new templates, pretty as they are, are too intimidating even for me, nevermind the nascent blogger. I think what this will mean, in the long run, is less customization and more blogs that look the same as new bloggers take one look at the css and coding and back down in fear.

The more careful readers amongst you might recall me mentioning a pair of blankets that I started knitting for the cats last Fall. Well, I unraveled them this morning. Here’s a lesson from a new knitter: never cast on hundreds of stitches on to too short needles because stitches that are bunched so close together that you can’t tell one from the next are not happy stitches, and unhappy stitches inevitably means unhappy knitter. As an alternative to the big, boring, stockinette blanket, I’ve decided to try wee kitty afghans comprised of wee little squares instead. This will give me a chance to practice different stitches and patterns, and the kitties will be able to boast afghans as opposed to predictable blankets. How many cats do you know with afghans?

And quick word about the new design: if the text seems to cut off in the middle of the page, or blanks out for chunks at a time (giving you white space in the middle of a post or a line of text that’s literally chopped in half at the end of the page), refresh the page. It’s something I had to deal with with my last design (the 3-column one with all the css borders) which makes me think that maybe it’s a css border thing. If you have any insight, I’d love to hear it.