Update

I have been kind of going back and forth about whether to keep this blog going.  I have decided now that summer is over that I will, but I will no longer be posting to the wordpress site, just this one.  It just so happens that blogger makes it much easier to post from other sites or save as draft from other sites.  Also, it was a big pain in the ass to update both.  Of course, that was bloggers fault because I had some problems early on with this site, which is why I ended up starting the wordpress site, but I haven't had trouble for a long time.  I will be keeping the wordpress site just in case though.  So in the next few days you should start seeing some updates here.

BTD is on Vacation

On vacation and will return around the 18th.

I will have my macbook and internet access and might update at TDF with non esoteric (unless something esoteric happens of vacation) beach/vacation related posts.

See ya in a week or so.

Beyond the Dial is officially great!

I received this adorable badge and the very nice letter that follows:

Dear Lesley,

Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it an 8.3 score out of (10) in the Society category of Blogged.com.

This is quite an achievement!

http://www.blogged.com/directory/society

We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style.

After carefully reviewing each of these criteria, your site was given its 8.3 score.

We’ve also created Blogged.com score badges with your score prominently displayed. Simply visit your website’s summary page on Blogged.com:

Click on the "Show this rating on your blog!" link underneath the score and follow the instructions provided.

Please accept my congratulations on a blog well-done!!

Blogging and such

Both BTD blogs are now working properly. Actually there was nothing wrong with the wordpress blog. Somehow my FF browser had been minimized by a unperceivable amount and after I hit the maximize button all was fine again. Totally my fault, but it did give me an experience with WP support who are much more efficient than blogger, like a billion times more.

I thought I should mention (in case you missed it at The Debris Field) that Grey Matters is all about paranormal radio this week.

I really do need two BTD Blogs

After like a week, Blogger finally fixed this blog. No sooner was it fixed than the one at wordpress starts having problems. WP is the opposite of what happened with this one, IE loads fine, FF pushes my right sidebars to the bottom of the page. At least WP isn't freezing browsers. Although I will give WP credit for having answered my email a few hours after I sent it. It didn't do any good because they checked it in IE and it was fine, but I do know I can email them later (they have 9-5 support only) and they will at least answer. So I guess for now blogger will become the main BTD blog. However, since nothing at WP will freeze your browser, feel free to use which ever you prefer.

I have to admit that with all the problems I have been having, I am starting to wonder if some secret hidden force isn't seeking to destroy BTD. :-) Seriously, I have been blogging for years and have more blogs than I can even remember and I have never had this many problems with all of them put together. Strange.

It's back!

IE finally seems to be working normally again with this blog, so I will be mirroring here for blogspot users.

Redirect

Due to an error caused by this blog in IE, it has pretty much been moved to a wordpress site. If you have a link up to this blog, please change the addy. I hate to think of those IE users who have to suffer their browser being frozen.
I have emailed blogger numerous times about this problem and have received no help. At this point I am pissed off and will probably stay permanently at wordpress. I do not believe the error is my fault, I have tried removing widgets and I have checked the html and found nothing wrong.