The pleasure was mine.

But please dont put any money in the pocket of Instapundit- that guy is not cool by a long shot.

Looking forward to crossing paths again and your blogging for the next year, at least

Thank you both.

– after you have the code for the Social Bookmark Buttons, log in to your blog’s dashboard.
– go to Presentation > Theme Editor > Main Template
– add the HTML code between and , and save
– do the same thing in the Post template, and save

This should do the trick Please let me know if it worked.

How to Get More Search Engine Traffic With One Simple Tweak

They have general web development and design stuff as well – all of which is useful when learning how to tweak the back end of blogs. It’s not where you want it to be yet, but it’s a step in the right direction. Until then, just call me more often.

Oh, and if you want to read something both highly informative and inspirational about what one person can do with today’s technology, then buy An Army of Davids by Glenn Reynolds. My dad got one for me and it was the best book I’ve read about the changes going on in the world (including things like blogging). Here’s a link to the book.

Perhaps I should have started six months ago but I am only now reading a lot of the primers and how-to’s about blogging. I have yet to find among the long list of cautionary do’s and don’ts any mention of the trials and tribulations associated with the backend – the hard-wiring of a blog – before embarking, making a commitment. Lots of talk about conversations, and comments, and time-to-blog, and linking, and feeds, and what-have-you. No mention that if you don’t know CSS from upload this and download that your kiboshed.

That said, your advice about outsourcing this is a good one. One of the advantages of being a baby boomer is [supposedly] having some disposal income.