Pen-Elayne on the Web

Things That Make You Go "Grrr, Argh"

Thanks to the folks (including Kafkaesquí Oseo and Bob Caceres) who've written to tell me I was misremembering Samuel Johnson's quote, to wit: "Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Now of course it's driving me crazy how I could have heard or recalled it so incorrectly. Am I the only one who thought it was always about a dancing bear? I mean, I retained the one about the fish and the bicycle, you'd think I'd get my feminist history quotes straight by now. Ah well, they do say short-term memory's the second thing to go...

Someone else pointed out that the blog archives only showed the first week of posts, and the last two weeks' stuff (between 9/8 and 9/21 for the most part) went bye-bye, so I reset my settings to "archive weekly" instead of monthly. Then when I tried to check to see if it worked, I couldn't get onto the site (it's a bit vampiric, not being able to see my own reflection; ah well, it's probably a bad hair day anyway). Finally I got on but I note that all the posts between 9/9 and 9/20 seem to be gone. If any techies can help with that I'd be grateful. I can get to them from my edit page (so I can save them to my hard drive, at least), and in fact have just gone in and tried to go in and republish them, but to no avail. (In fact, my latest try elicited an Error 104, for which Blogger's help file suggests going in and trying to republish old posts as the solution, rather than the problem. :) ) For anyone besides me who needs to see some of those entries, my wonderful husband has found this temporary cached page which contains blog posts from 9/17 through 9/24, so that's something at least. If I don't figure out how to make them appear in an archive, maybe I'll repost them as a "blast from the past" or something...