Keith, you mentioned your comments had been lost. As the blogmeister, I can see some of what you typed. You wiped out one of the little angle brackets or something. Here's the brief story behind that weird notation used for links, which is the Hypertext Markup Language or HTML. When you want a link to look like this:
The Harris Online Blog
it looks under the covers like this:
<a href="http://harrisonline.blogspot.com">The Harris Online Blog</a>
When you use the "Blog This!" button (which is what I assume you're using), it takes the web page you're looking at and packages it up with all the proper thingies to make it look like a link like I did above. If you're not careful to leave the angle brackets in place when you type, it gets messed up. If you're adventurous, you can edit the stuff carefully, especially the text part that shows up as the link, and embed it in a sentence. That's all I'm doing in my posts. The other way to link is to highlight the text in your post and then choose the "link" button (the one that has a picture of a link in a chain). You can then type in the http:// type of location of what you want the text to link to, and the editing tool will do all the angle bracket html magic formatting for you. The tool you use on Blogspot to write posts has two tabs, one labeled "Edit HTML" and one labeled "Compose". The "Edit HTML" one shows you all the grimy angle bracket detail, and the "Compose" one (or the "Preview" link) shows you what it's supposed to look like when it gets posted.
More detail than anyone wanted, but there you go. I am sure that knowing this kind of thing will get you some kind of recognition at next year's Grouseland Dinner.
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