Hurray, hurray, my picture is in, thanks to Blogatech!

The only problem is the little “yeah, right” title on the left side shouldn’t be visible. (Okay, I shrunk it down so you have to look real hard, but I still know it’s there.) The post said I needed to look for something called an H1 tag and delete it, but I couldn’t find one.

If any of you techies out there have any ideas, I’m all ears.

It seems I’m way behind the times, but I figure I’m not the only one, so here’s a very cool search engine. When you do a search through Scroogle, it goes to Google, and you get a fast, nice clean list of results, without all the ads.

Why bother, you ask? Because, unlike Google, who stores every search you do, just waiting for some government bureaucrat to come looking for it, Scroogle:

• doesn’t use cookies
• doesn’t save search terms
• deletes logs within 48 hours

When you search using Scroogle:

• Google cannot set a cookie
• doesn’t see your IP address
• and cannot tell which searches are from the same person

They have a secure link if you want, and if you click Browser support, Firefox, (which is what I use) there’s a search engine plug-in available. What’s more, Scroogle is an official non-profit.

If you think Google is getting a little too big for its britches – not to mention they’re a little too happy to cooperate with whatever government is around – check out Scroogle!

If you use Internet Explorer, better check this out:

Users of Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer have been warned of a flaw that could let hackers gain access to their computers and steal personal data, and told them to swap to a rival browser.

Since I got my new laptop, I have been a very good girl, backing up my files every week onto DVD’s. My photos and documents are safe forever. But I saw a stray comment the other day about backing up your blogger posts and templates. I went, “Huh?” For some reason it had never occurred to me that I needed to do this. Boy, did I feel stupid.

Swallowing my pride, I questioned my blogger buddy, Mrs. Mecomber, who knows about this kind of stuff. Well, not only did she provide me all the information I needed, she did it in English so even I could understand. To top it off? She didn’t even say, “Well, how dumb are you?” Now that’s a buddy!

So, in case you’re in the same position, I’m going to pass along her sage advice … and advise you to take it! Thanks a bunch, Mrs. M!

I’m finally getting back to you about backing up Blogger blogs. Google/Blogger sure hasn’t made it easy!

I’ve touched on this a few times here

http://mrsmecombersscrapbook.com/2008/08/a-blogger-backup-tool.html

and here (template backup)

http://mrsmecombersscrapbook.com/2007/12/how-to-backup-your-blogger-template.html

Actually, if you search Categories for “Blogger” in the drop-down menu, you’ll find a bunch of posts related to Blogger that may be useful to you.

There’s another way to backup your Blogger posts, and that is starting up a free WordPress.com blog. WP allows you to import your posts from Blogger. Two things to think about with this: you don’t want duplicate content on the web, so I advise making your WordPress blog private. Google and other search engines have penalties for the same posts on the Net. And two, as you add newer posts and have WordPress import them, WP doesn’t seem to know the difference between your old and new posts; it will import everything old again as well as the new. It’s not harmful, but it can be very tedious, going over hundreds and hundreds of posts and checking them off as “do not import.”

So… there is no easy way to save your Blogger blog. The third low-tech option is to just copy your post when it is done (in the “Edit Html” mode so that you get all the links included) and paste it into Notepad. I don’t advise pasting it in Word, because Word doesn’t read html and will mess up the links and formatting.