Whaddaya Know, I'm a Pro!

The truth is, I was getting tired of dealing with Blogger's little hiccups, foibles, and outright refusals to work. I was getting tired of the mysterious now-you-see-'em/-now-you-don't archive links. I was getting tired of my template not updating when I tried to add links to the sidebar. And I was tired of having zero tech support for any of those problems. And as I was contemplating this, growling over it, cursing Blogger's name over it, it occurred to me that maybe the answer was to just stop being such a damned cheapskate. I've gotten about a zillion hours of entertainment out of this thing, and it'd hardly kill me to throw a few bucks at it to get a superior grade of product. Thus, I am pleased to announce that Maximum Verbosity is now a Blogger Pro blog. I was sincerely hoping that the upgrade would fix the problems I've been having, and, after a small amount of template-tweaking, everything does indeed seem to be working the way it's supposed to... Which is something of a novel feeling, honestly. I also now have access to a number of new and theoretically nifty features, some of which I might actually want to use. The spell-check feature, at least, is definitely welcome, as I'm sure anyone who's read any of my unfortunately typo-laden posts will doubtless agree.

While I was at it, I also got rid of the banner ad at the top, although now I can't help but think that the blog looks oddly naked without it. Oh, well, I suppose I'll get used to it eventually.