Saturday, September 30, 2017

The Blogger update that keeps on giving


Ah, the Blogger update that keeps on giving. My old posts with photos are rendered into blank boxes. Sections of text are randomly supersized, or there are inexplicable gaps and multiple carriage returns. Or the typography is an odd color. Makes me look like an idiot.

Wiki links are hardest hit. Cleaning it up is not an easy task. I'm tip-toeing through my 2014 posts, HTML and visual landmines! It's taken me hours to clean up the posts, about a quarter of them had HTML warnings, and I have 135 posts. Ironically it was in 2014 when I really began to run afoul of Blogger, with hanging posts, and disappearing posts. Dear Google, Using Blogger is a Painful Experience. 



I am painfully reminded of the original name of this blog which was Literrata and Cybernalia. Yes, the cybernalia coming home to roost. 2015 looks a bit better, but I'm bogged down at September (beginning from Dec. and working backwards).

Any posts I've revisited to correct typos, etc, seem to be updated. Minor miracle. Except for the extra random carriage returns....they seem to be breeding.

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