Okay, now links in posts will be underlined. I added a CSS.extension to the overlay for the Old Type theme that I liked, except for the fact that links were the same color and font as the rest of the posting text and thus there was no way to differentiate them until your cursor was over them. I just applied the changes to the "p" tag so the sidebar and header wouldn't be effected.
Yays, I upgraded the blog software, and now they have an option for in-page comments. I had sent in a suggestion that they provide this alternative to the pop-up style, so I'll just pat myself on the back a little. 
Okay, after much wandering about I think I've figured out how to create extra "community" blogs. The setup is a bit wonky, but it's pretty easy. Here's the first effort. I might delete that blog, or just make another. Onward!
Update: I keep forgetting to modify this style sheet (the Old Type one) so that links are underlined or something. Right now you don't know it's a link until you hover over it.
Also: I'll add links to the sidebar to the new community blogs right now.
I decided to allow guest commenters (i.e., non-members of the site) to edit their own comments. I set the editing time at five minutes -- well, that was the default so I left it in. I tested it when logged in and when logged out and it seemed to work fine, but what might be a useful addition is some sort of timer, like the Wordpress comment editing plugin I have over at my Wordpress blog.
Okay, not that exciting -- I just streamlined the blog title a little. On my tiny display it was overlapping the pretty typewriter picture. We can't have that.
I wonders... can I embed a Youtube video?
Yep!
OK, I've upgraded to version 1.32. So far everything seems to be working fine. 
This is a test of the image link capabilities:
Okay, just the basic image tag is added. You would have to know the url of what you are uploading -- there isn't any sort of program that you can use to upload images. That's okay for a basic text-only blog. 
Argh typing without a working index finger bites. 
Okay, I've completely reinstalled Ubuntu on the laptop, switched to the KDE version (Kubuntu), and am back on Firefox, which seems to be working okay for now. Goals: to get Google Chrome for Linux working someday. Also to update the Bloo install -- they updated it recently. Sigh. Is computer work ever done?
For no reason I'm putting a post in here. I'm currently using Opera because something broke my Firefox. Boo!
...my Bloo site calms and relaxes me. It's like my private secret diary or something. Not that I've written anything profound or interesting here yet, and may never, but it's somehow comforting just to come here and type something.
I know. I'm weird.
I could swear that when I'm using my laptop, which runs Ubuntu, every once in a while the size and font face that Firefox uses changes. It wasn't this tiny before I entered the last post.
Where I currently live the internet access is through Verizon dsl. For weeks now it has been intermittently going out for no reason. Woes.
I'm too embarrassed to write this on my regular site so I'll write it here.
I suppose I should be thankful if the overflowing tub didn't leak into the apartment downstairs. I am definitely thankful that the water didn't do anything more than get a few cardboard box corners wet. If any of the books had been damaged... ::shudder::
Well, let that be a lesson to me. Never count on the tub filling up slowly when you've decided to multitask. It will be that one time it fills up lickety-split. And now I am smelly (I'm afraid of the tub now) and I didn't enjoy my dinner (which came out fine, but I didn't enjoy it, and in fact was too afraid of my own ineptitude to take it into another room to eat, so I ate in the kitchen), and I'm tired. And smelly. And I have gas.
But at least the towels are clean.
I fixed my laptop! It turned out all I had to do was reinstall the operating system. Unfortunately I didn't have a copy of Ubuntu. So I downloaded it from the site, but I couldn't find my blank cds to make an image. Then I found the blank cds. But in the meantime Ubuntu was offering free cds of its upcoming new version, so I ordered it. I didn't expect the cd to come for another few weeks, but I just got it today. So I turned on the laptop, put the cd in -- and it installed!
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You know, the more I use this program, the more charming I find it. I like the simplicity of the setup -- Wordpress is great, but the bells and whistles in the Dashboard sure do load down my computer. Bloo even has a rather easy extra "community" blog setup where you can make another blog under your main one. If I hadn't already invested so much in setting up Wordpress, I'd switch to this for Spleenville. Or maybe I'm just being a grump because I have a slow computer. Hmm...
Anyway, I'll be testing out the community blog thing soon, to see how that will work. 
Well, now that I've figured out why the style sheet wasn't staying (I had the theme selector snap-on activated and I didn't know it) I can get back to testing this software. I've shut off the rich text editor -- I don't really need it. Some things that would be nice (some I've sent into the Bloo feedback area):
I will keep on trying to load the Old Type theme until it stays there!
Well heck, what happened to the "Old Style" theme with the typewriter and everything? Frown.
Well, it's nice and simple. Obviously they've got a ways to go, but it does the basic stuff.
