I've been playing the last couple of days with my blog's dasBlog theme and I've settled on a new design for now. There's still some tweaking left to do, but I'm happy enough with the results for now

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I mentioned in the past that I had been evaluating Google Reader as an alternative to Newsgator. When I repaved my machine to move to Vista, I decided to skip the newsgator installation and take the plunge.

I'm happy to report it has been going well, and although I miss some of the Newsgator features, I now have a somewhat lighter Outlook around . One thing I missed from Newsgator was being able to "tag" (or add to a folder) a feed right away as I subscribed to it, but this week it just started happening with Google Reader:

Much better! The only thing I've noticed is that sometimes the Google Reader page won't quite load and some features just "don't work", but a refresh usually fixes that.

Blogging, Aggregators, Google Reader, Newsgator

Looks like we'll now have to invent a whole new term: Hanselmanning a site Just a small link in Scott's piece on programming fonts to my entry on Inconsolata pushed up my traffic yesterday enough for it to surpass even a regular weekday's traffic. Event today it shows.

Not enough to cause any problems (given how low my regular traffic is), mind you, but I still thought it was curious.

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My good friend Christian Weyer reprimanded me today because my weblog was rather impossible to print. Unfortunately, he was completely right; when I did the redesign of the site it never even occurred to me to consider that someone might want to print it, so it really was rather useless in that respect.

The good news is that I have now modified my weblog template slightly and added a new CSS sheet for print that trims the header, gets rid of the sidebar, ads and navigation menu, and positions the body of the page correctly. Hopefully this will make it far easier for those of you wanting to print portions of my site!

After the upgrade to dasBlog 1.9 a few weeks ago, I decided to update my blog template to include the blog statistics macro on the left sidebar, and that has worked fine so far. However, for some reason, this morning the statistics started appearing in German!

I ended up forcing the dasBlog application to recycle in order to get them back to english. Any idea of what this happened, and how to fix it without restarting the application?