She’s a very geeky girl…the kind you don’t bring home to mutha…

Sorry for the radio silence the past few days… The Rib has been experiencing technical difficulties, as they say.

For some reason, my feed got all fouled up. My feeds weren’t updating regularly, and then my posts stopped being delivered to my email subscribers. I think these problems are related to my possibly-botched attempt to upgrade my Feedburner plugin, but as I couldn’t get anyone from their so-called support forum to answer my question, I’m not completely sure.

In any case, I think my feeds are back on track now; however, I am not sure if my previous subscribers will continue to receive updates. So dear Readers: If you’ve lost connection to the Rib feed, I am sorry, I apologize profusely, please resubscribe, I was a fool, I love you, don’t leave me.

Maybe it was misdirected hostility, but about this time, I decided my blog’s look was horribly boring. So if you tuned into the Rib from about nine to eleven last Saturday morning, you may have noticed that it had a new face every few minutes. BlueGreenOneColumnTwoArtsyNewsprintBusyMinimalist… I pretty much tried on every outfit in my price range.

Eventually I settled on the theme you see now - it’s alright, though not my ideal. I guess I’m just going to have to learn Wordpress and Photoshop and create my own perfect theme.

(Jeez, I can’t believe I just wrote that. One of the unanticipated side-effects of blogging has been a growing persnickitiness about themes, plugins, widgets, and other geeky apparatus. Welcome to Nerdsville!)

Anyway, the upshot of all this is that I’ve spent so much time getting geeky with my blog that I haven’t had time to actually write for it. I’m happy to say I think I’ve gotten the feed/email issues resolved, so I should be able to get back to your regularly scheduled uppity programming.

Just in case, though…

To my valued Rib Readers out there: please let me know if anything seems amiss with the Rib. Feed not updating? Emails stop coming? Comments not working? Theme broken or just bloody annoying? Don’t suffer in silence! Email me uppityrib@yahoo.com and I’ll get to fixing it.

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