Ok, no more monkeying around

with HTML for at least a week.

Although it was an interesting case.

Thank Jebus I keep a test-bed.

It was never intended to be more than a tweak here and there to widen out the body and narrow down the rails. To eye-friendly it up a little, and I end up decapitating (or degluteusizing) the blog.

Sheesh.

And in a way too subtle to diagnose from the castle: every recompilatiion came back A-OK and looked and acted fine

Double sheesh.

Based on some patient emails and my own sampling, it appears that this little electronic hacienda of adjectives was perfectly viewable under the following circumstances:

1. On a Mac (Safari, Firefox or IE)
2. On a WinTel box running Windows XP and Firefox.
3. On a WinTel box running Windows XP and IE.
4. On a WinTel box running Windows XP and Netscape
5. On a WinTel box running Windows 2000 and Firefox.

But not on a WinTel box running Windows 2000 and IE.

Which is also apparently the most common configuration in the solar system.

So I changed the format entirely and while I was republishing the beast (which now takes upwards of an hour, which disinclines me towards making fussier, more tuckpointy changes despite my wishes to the contrary), blogger imploded.

Couldn’t get Gilliard or Shakes or Atrios.

So it’s quite possible that I temporarily annihilated the whole blogger ecosystem.

So I’ve got that going for me.