Danger Melissa Markham! Danger!

"Melissa....what are you doing?"

That is the question that the H.A.L. 9000 is asking me as I start copying my templates and indexes to notepad documents (heck, I am asking myself the same question!) Fortunately, there is no airlock here for HAL to throw me out of!

The Robot is gearing up and shouting...."Danger Melissa Markham! Danger!"

"What on earth are you doing?" you, my faithful reader, are wondering out loud.

Well, it's like this. I use Movable Type for the basis of my blog. And several months ago, Movable Type upgraded. The new Movable Type is lovely...it will allow me to have two sidebars....count them, people! TWO!!! And it will allow me to use CAPTCHA...which is particularly inviting to me as I got hit with 80 comments last night from the same source...spamming comments. (You don't even want to know what words I was thinking). And it will mean that when you go to an article, my sidebars will still be there (right now, my article sits all alone on its page.

It also means that my blog will look completely different..which bums me a bit because I really like my fonts and pictures, but with some work I can recapture some of that. So, I have copied all of my templates into notebook, and saved them to my desk top. I have said prayers and crossed my fingers.

As soon as I finish typing this post, I will go and apply my new settings. From what Daniel tells me, all of my posts will still be intact. The work will come as I try to sort out my sidebars. It took my computer literate husband days (which is why I have put this off so long).

So cross your fingers and wish me luck...as I push the button while ignoring Hal and The Robot in their pleas for me to stop what I am doing!