Template Tedium

Sorry about these too frequent changes in this blog’s appearance. Ever since I moved LaMarotte from WordPress to Blogger, I’ve had problems of one sort or another. I made the move because WordPress began running ads whereas Blogger leaves me the right to advertise or not to, which I appreciate. But it seems to me—and I am not alone in noticing this—that Google might be experiencing troubles with some of its newer templates. The old templates, of which this one, Scribe, was one, are no long available—but they still run. If you have a saved copy of it, you can apply it. My hope is that the old will work better the new. That often is the case. If not, other experiments are still ahead.

Happy St. Patricks

It happens to be a coincidence, but it pleases me to launch a new edition, if I might call it that, of LaMarotte on the feast day of a famous figure like Saint Patrick. From this time forward, LaMarotte will appear on Google’s Blogger platform. The reason for this? I’ve discovered that WordPress, the host of LaMarotte since its beginning, thus since April of 2009, has begun to run ads on that site. WordPress has every right to do so. In effect I have been very pleased with that platform and its many attractive facilities. But the general thematic of LaMarotte, alas—which is a jaundiced-eye view of matters economic and secular—is incompatible with advertising. Therefore I have two choices. One is to pay for the hosting service and the other is to move to a platform where the service is free and running ads is a choice left to me. I'm retired. I have to be frugal. Hence this change. The silver lining here? WordPress evidently started running ads because LaMarotte had achieved a high enough level of traffic to make it attractive to advertisers.

It will take a little time before this second incarnation of the blog will have some content. Selectively I'll bring in from the old one some of the more popular posts. Importing the entire a blog from the WordPress platform is possible—but exceedingly tedious. Therefore I will provide a link to the old one on this site.