warmed-over soapboxes

Every time I take a step forward with the new blog/website, I get a little excited — and then something happens to forestall the excitement. It’s kind of like when we were sitting in Stanstead airport waiting to catch our plane to Greece (to Greece!) and even though we hadn’t slept for more than an hour out of the past 48, I was still sitting on the edge of my seat, jiggling my leg up and down with anticipation: watching the plane come in, unload, get cleaned, meals loaded…and then the intercom notified us that the Athens airport was overcrowded and we’d have to wait 30, no, 45, no 50 minutes to load.

POR QUE?! [insert hand-wringing here]

That’s what moving to the new blog is like, albeit less expensive and I don’t have to sit for hours in a cramped cattle compartment that hurtles through space at hundreds of miles an hour with children kicking the seat behind me.

Erm. Anyway.

I’ve encountered the following bugs, many of which are still unfixed:

• No bulleted or numbered lists of any kind. For example, this list should be bulleted, but it’s not. (The Husband says this is fixable. However, he has also taken to texting me from his iPhone WHILE SITTING NEXT TO ME, so things are a little tense right now.)
• No quick-edit tag at the bottom of each post. (The Husband says this is fixable, but when I texted him back and asked how, he replied *yawn* BRB, pushed my feet off his lap and went to bed.)
• Uploading photos has yet to be successful, partially because of size and partially because now there’s an extra step: no more uploading straight from the folder, they have to be in a separate folder (I think on the server?) before I can upload them. (Or maybe that has something to do with thumbnails? I don’t know because The Husband doesn’t write in complete iPhone-texted sentences.)
• Importing the posts directly from Blogger to my own server-hosted blog wreaked havoc, with all the less-than/greater-than brackets getting stripped (these: <>), which meant no formatting, no links, no pictures, no videos, nothin’. The fix for this was to import from Blogger to a Wordpress.com-hosted blog, and then export the WP.com blog to my hard drive and import it to my server…but the server apparently has a maximum upload capability that needs to be upped before that happens.

So that’s where things are. We’ll return to our regularly scheduled life when I’ve properly bribed our server admin.