Oh, this is driving me nuts.

It's times like this that makes me want to close up show on blogger and move the site to WordPress.

Here's the deal:

Blogger is going through this upgrade of their service and are trying to get everyone to move over to the new blogger interface. The problem is that large blogs are currently unable to make the move right now so sites like this one are forced to deal with outages and wired things happening to the site.

The major problem I'm dealing with are old posts with embedding code (geek term for video) which is dropping because the re-publishing command is somehow changing the text in my posts (certain characters). In order to save the posts, I have to cut the portion that I can't save and in most cases, it's the embedding code because I have no way to remember where the code originally came from. Certain photos are also dropping because again, somehow, blogger is doing strange stuff with certain characters in my posts.

A good example of this hassle can be found in the Joe Lieberman post from today. If you look at the eighth paragraph, you'll notice several "weird" characters. For some reason, blogger is changing the text of certain characters to this garbage...and that's only the beginning. It's one thing to change the text from a post but when it changes the embedding code, all hell breaks loose. In short, I'm still waiting for blogger to get everything worked out while I work on the re-design offline.

I'm real sorry for the lack of posts but as I stated several times, it's better just to wait than to post stuff only to turn around and fixing it several times a day. I'm still posting on ConnecticutBLOG as well as My Left Nutmeg and I'll start reporting on state politics again for America Online (I'll give you the details later).

Trust me, once the re-design is finished, you're going to love what you see...