The other day at work we had a staff appreciation luncheon. Besides the free food, everyone who attended received a $10 gift card (from Old Navy, Amazon, or Starbucks), and a little note of thanks for all our hard work over the past year. The note began with “Dear so-and-so…” and one of my co-workers pointed out that the company had used a semi-colon after this salutation, rather than a colon or the more friendly comma. You really know you work in publishing when you start proofreading even your thank-you notes.
I bring this up now because, on some of the posts below, there’s a “1 Comments” link at the end. There’s a tiny part of my brain going a little crazy over this. It really should be “1 Comment,” singular. I’ve yet to determine if this is fix-able in Blogger, but I suspect that most sane people wouldn’t even notice.
Of course, the easiest solution to this is for more people to respond more often to my posts, thereby eliminating all those “1 Comments” mistakes altogether. I’m just saying.
I’m just busy being jealous that your blog will publish at all. Mine keeps giving me errors every time I try it. 🙁
Hmm. I posted to one of my Blogspot weblogs a few hours ago without a problem…
Have you tried maybe using a different browser? That’s the only thing that worked for me the other day, after Blogger’s maintenance. Even closing and restarting Firefox wasn’t enough; I could only access it through IE.
I haven’t tried that, but I went over at looked at Blogger’s discussion forums, and there were lots of people saying they were having the same problem and nothing seemed to be helping… Except when something did finally seem to help… or when it magically fixed itself after they did nothing at all (which suggestes to me that the “something”s might actually also be “nothing”s).
It definitely looks to me like a problem on their end that really needs to be fixed on their end, and I’m not gonna waste my time jumping through hoops and reciting incantations trying to find something that will magically improve things. I did send them a complaint… We’ll see what happens.
In the meantime, the world will just have to wait for my latest collection of random links. I’m sure there is worldwide grief and mourning at this. 🙂
Oh, I’m also noticing that your archives seem to be set up differently than mine (no individual post pages, for one), and since publishing to the archives seems to be where it’s choking, it is perhaps not too surprising that you’re not seeing the same problem.
Sigh.
I think I’ve mostly been just republishing the index, rather than the entire blog, this afternoon.
That’s not working for me, either. *heavy sigh*
I’ve been having some intermittent problems today, too.
You can fix your “1 Comments” issue by changing what the template says, if it really irks you. “Comments: 1” or “Comments [1]” or “Add a comment [1]”.
Please do not answer my solution with a complaint that the software should be smart enough to resolve this on its own.
See, what you see as a complaint for some reason, I see as me saying, “This doesn’t matter. That a part of my brain thinks it matters reflects just how deeply disturbed I am on some level.”
Of course I can fix the problem, and easily, following your suggestions. But it’s really a non-issue. I was just observing that there’s this crazy proofreading instinct in my brain that I can’t shut down.