THING 25. MORE TROUBLES ON A STICK, OR, BLOGGERS' TOOLKIT

Are we having fun yet? I was until I tried adding gadgets to the layout page. I tried several different ones, but was not able to add any. Worse, for several days I couldn't scroll through my blog or sign in. I was trying to add the gadget for the Wall St. Journal when this happened. When I previewed the blog, a message came up saying Internet Explorer can't upen the blog URL (even though I had just been in it). When I clicked on OK or Close to get rid of the message, the white screen with "This screen cannot be displayed" came up. Shutting down the PC and starting up again didn't help. A different PC didn't help. Today I tried logging in through Blogger instead of my Favorites bookmark or a Google search. That took me to the Dashboard. I deleted the Wall Street Journal gadget (does anything on or about Wall St. work these days?). Then I could see my blog.

The Typealyzer needs more tweaking. A lot more tweaking. When I tried to find out my blog's type, the message came back "Detected language Vietnamese. The only supported languages are English and Swedish." My blog is in English.

THING 24. REFRESH YOUR BLOG

It's been more than two months since I've posted to my blog. I changed some of the colors on my blog. Not a big change. I tried changing the background color, but I couldn't find a way to do that with the fonts and colors tab. I've added to my profile. When I tried adding Blogger Gadgets for the NY Times, the BBC and the Wall St. Journal, the links wouldn't work. I was able to add Google News as a gadget at the bottom of my blog. I never created an avatar for Thing 1. When I got to Thing 23, I had fun creating a dancing avatar on meez.com. I like what you can do with meez, but after reading through all their legal stuff, I decided not to keep the avatar.