Getting My Font On

What about this font?

I'm not a fan of the new Blogger.

The new look and feel for the behind-the-scenes tools takes a bit of getting used to and I find that the interface makes it more difficult to control, which I'm sure is not Blogger's intent.

As some of you who are regular readers of The Brown Knowser may have noticed, the size of the font has varied from post to post. It's settled down, somewhat, for the last few posts, but that's only because I've given up.

Before the new layout of Blogger, I would write my posts using Verdana as the font and setting the size to Large. The layout didn't allow me to specify a precise font size and I thought that Large was a bit too big, but a couple of regular readers told me that the Normal size was too small and they had trouble reading it.

I aim to please.

In the new layout, if I specify the body text font size as large, it appears as big as the title of the post, and that's just no good. I tried going into the custom settings, where you can now specify a font size in points, so I changed the Normal size, which was 12 points, to 14 points, and finally, to 16 points. I also changed the font from Verdana to Arial.

Sometimes it works; other times, it doesn't.

How does it look to you?

I can read it fine, but I could also read the old size before I made it larger. I'm afraid to say that if this font is a bit too small for you, I suggest you magnify it through your browser.

There are enough things with the new format of Blogger that annoy me: font size just isn't going to be one of them.

The Horror of Corruption

This isn't a Photo Friday. Even though I used my new lens to shoot the pictures in this post, the subject in the photos is pretty lame for a Photo Friday. Read on before you look at the attached pictures.

I've been pretty busy at work this week, hence my lack of a blog post yesterday. And I'm going to apologize up front for a lame post today, but please bear with me. I'm pretty stressed these days and don't have a lot of time to think of a topic, let alone write about it.

At work, I have two deadlines that are looming for next week. And because other little tasks that have become bigger tasks have snuck in between my main projects, I'm finding myself in a crunch that is putting me into a panic. I'm starting to think that I might not be able to meet my deadlines, and that drives me nuts.

And so I worked over the past weekend and put in extra hours through the week. I told myself that unless anything bad happened, I just might get enough completed to hand off without shame.

And then, something bad happened. On Wednesday, I opened my project folder and found that some of my files were corrupted, meaning that I couldn't open them. And on top of that, the program that I use didn't make a backup file.

And then the horror of knowing I had done a rookie move struck me: I hadn't backed up my work on our server for a couple of weeks. All my work, down the drain.

Had you been in the office when I couldn't retrieve my files, you would have heard me screaming "F@CK! F@CK! F@CK!" like an angry sufferer of Tourette's.

But I'm better now. I was able to retrieve an older version of my file and repiece most of what I have lost from other files. Thank goodness for text insets. The work that took me more than a week to write was fixed in one day. One very, very long day.

But when I put my file back together and then jumped to where I was working before the corruption fiasco, I discovered an added character at the beginning of my section heading.

The character was also repeated in the header:

At least the character was trying to put me in a good mood after all the time I lost. You know, trying to tell me, Don't worry, be happy!

Happy Friday, and wish me luck as I scramble to meet my deadlines.