updates galore...

this is (kind of) the first post i made today, but i've timed it later so it appears at the top

basically i have been trying to update my blog for days now, but i keep having issues with various things. so there are a bunch of things to post, but i don't want to do it all in one post, especially since i have upgraded to the new blogger (whatever that really means) and want to try and use the tags/labels feature it now has.

this post will probably be deleted in a couple of days - its just here to warn you that there should be more than one new post for you to read...