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Well, this kinda catched the eye. From knownissues.blogspot.com Some blogs are seeing a new post that says "eeyore is cute!" We are identifying the cause of the problem and are working on a fix. Heh. Just poking around at blogs that seem to have the eeyore post a couple of things I spot in common. 1) All the ones I see are published via FTP and 2) Ones with the eeyore post also have

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A little rant where I ask Blogger to make a slight change. The story begins... Several months back, Blogger changed the way they did comments somewhat. Short version is they broke up post pages that receive many comments (200+). This is fine. In doing so, they also had to add some query parameters to comment permalinks so they could work with the new pagination. Again, nothing wrong with that.

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Ok, following up on the recent breakage of the Random Post widget, I've updated the instructions page with the new code that should fix everything. If you need it, then go to the Widgets Instruction page and you can get the new works. If you installed the one-click widget then all you need to do is delete the old one, and reinstall from the updated instructions page. If you used the manual

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Ok, following up on my previous post about problems with the Archive Calendar, I've made the changes in the calendar script so it works correctly again. I've updated the installation page with those changes so any future installs should work correctly. Now for anyone that's already been using it - here's the easiest way to get it working again. You'll probably need to just recopy/paste the script

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Lesson learned (as if it shouldn't have been learned already). NEVER assume that ANYTHING will remain constant. Unfortunately due to my lack of foresight, and Blogger making small changes in their feeds, the Blogger Archive Calendar and the Random Post Widget are slightly broken. For the calendar, the links to each post underneath the calendar are broken and instead will either go to a comment

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Testing out Blogger in Drafts scheduled post feature. If you are reading this, then it must have worked.

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Late last night the Buzz announced that OpenID commenting has been pushed out of Blogger in Draft and now is available to everyone. You can see my previous post on using OpenID on Blogger, with tips on how to delegate any url you want to use or also the Buzz recommends Sam Ruby's article on OpenID delegation article as well. One of the additional changes pushed out with this, is now on your

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Quick explanation of two errors you can get when posting through Blogger. I give these out because the message itself leads to confusion as to exactly where the problem is. URL contains illegal characters The error message "URL contains illegal characters" refers to the LINK box underneath the title. Only full and valid URLs can be entered in that box. It can also refer to the enclosure

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Just a quick and dirty overview on how to use OpenID support in Blogger comments. Enabling OpenID support on the blog comments First the Blogger blog in question must have enabled OpenID support. Currently this is only available by logging into http://draft.blogger.com and going to Settings|Comments. This is now available to everyone via regular Blogger comments settings. The top two

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The Universe divided As the Heart and Mind collided With the people left unguided For so many troubled years In a cloud of doubts and fears Their world was torn asunder Into hollow hemispheres Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres IV. Armageddon The Battle of Heart and Mind New feature: OpenID commenting Blogger has removed the URL field for unauthenticated comments.... We can walk our road

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Update 12-04 - This issue appears to be resolved on uploaded images now Aside from the always ongoing image issues that pop up with Blogger most of the time, it seems that in trying to solve one bug, they have introduced another. Just speaking from what I'm seeing. The Bug When Blogger introduced the ability to upload a header image directly from the Layouts screen it was a good deal. Makes

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Spammers are busy exploiting a weakness in the Blogger comment form, enabling them to get followed (indexed) links. This affects anyone using Blogger that has their comments open to anyone (rather than just registered users). Normally, all links added in comments are nofollowed to discourage comment spamming. But apparently spammers have found a weakness where they can add links that don't

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Blogger users who wanted to submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools have always had some disadvantages. Since we can't publish a real sitemap to the domain we are using we had to settle for only submitting a partial sitemap by using our default site feeds (which only contain the last 25 posts). Add to that confusion when Blogger introduced Feed Redirection (to FeedBurner or others) made

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My last post I pointed out the release of a GData Javascript client library for Google Calendar, and stated it would be more interesting to me when/if it was released for Blogger. It got more interesting today with the announcement on the Google Data APIs blog. This could bring up some interesting ideas. And some included sample apps show some of what can be done with it. Like CalendBlogger (

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Not exactly the kind of present I was hoping for in honor of Blogger's eight birthday. Blogger's comments feed have a broken entry, and it can also affect (a few) blogs post feeds as well. A brief explanation of how Blogger treats a few elements in their feeds. If an entry doesn't have a title, then normally Blogger makes an excerpt of the first lines of that entry as the title element for that

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Anyone that has struggled with the Internet Explorer 6 CSS implementation knows it's a pain. IE7 of course is better, but still lacking and IE6 is still around enough as well. One of the helpful methods for getting around IE quirks is to serve only that browser special code, be it CSS or HTML or whatever. That's where IE Conditional Comments come into play. I'm not going into the details of that

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Since the start of the new version of Blogger in Beta, the default behavior of feeds had changed. Causing aggravation to some. Instead of being ordered by the dates of publish, the feeds were all sorted by the last updated time meaning if an older post was tweaked it would jump to the top of the feed. There was much complaining. Then last March, Blogger added a new query parameter for those

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Another small change has popped up in the way Blogger appears to work. Small but nice addition in my opinion, and it concerns what happens when you change from blogspot hosting to publishing via FTP to your own server. Since, well always, if you switched from blogspot to FTP publishing then your blogspot address was released into the wild leaving you to have to "reclaim" it with another blog if

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Well most have probably seen this already by now, but since I've been tracking the Blogger Video upload for the last few months I should note it's finally out...sort of. Everything is like I had said it would be, except Blogger threw a curve ball by releasing it with another new Blogger feature, Blogger in Draft. It's a separate version that early adopters can login to and play with Blogger

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Just an addendum to the previous sneak peak, another screenshot after the video gets uploaded to Blogger of the placeholder image. It must be getting closer, as the script that actually uploads the video to Google Video is now in place and videos can be uploaded...just waiting for them to turn it on for the public. One other difference from the previous screenshots is they've added a message "Do

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Extra points if you can spot what's happening from the following snippet of headers (some taken out for brevity) before reading the rest of the post. http://mail-1234.blogspot.com/ GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: mail-1234.blogspot.com HTTP/1.x 302 Moved Temporarily Location: http://mail-1234.blogspot.com/mail/ Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Encoding: gzip Cache-Control: private

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Another pretty cool feature has been added by Blogger to their Custom Domains hosting option. It's called the Missing Files Host, and while most won't need this for those that do it's pretty neat. Now if someone is just starting a blog, but wanting to use the custom domain feature then the missing file host option is not necessary at all. They don't even need to think about it. But here is the

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Way back last month I made a post entitled Blogger Video Uploading Coming Soon? where I pointed out some scripts that hinted at Blogger handling uploading of videos in the post editor to be coming. Well, it hasn't happened yet. But it must be getting closer. A bit more digging around, and with the help of Greasemonkey I found and could activate most of the video uploading controls, and it gives

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I have made a few tweaks to my Picasa Web Albums widget maker for Blogger, and updated the original posts instructions to reflect those changes. So if you are interested in such things, it's at Picasa Web Albums widget for Blogger. For the zero people interested, here is what is changed. Setup - the setup should be a little easier, I think. Instead of having to physically go to Picasa Web

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Since Blogger introduced labels, one of the pressing concerns for those publishing via FTP or those on blogspot who don't want to switch to a Layout based template was how to automatically list all the labels used on the blog in the sidebar. Blogger does not provide any template tags for this in Classic Templates (maybe they will at some point, but adding new features to Classic Templates

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