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Monday, March 31, 2003
01:07 p.m.
Technical Note
A correspondent has rightly drawn attention to a technical problem with the blog: the pages are byte-heavy (more so than the average blog, at least) and take dialups a while to load.
As a stopgap (I describe the problem I'm having below), I recommend to dialup readers that, if what you want is to pick up my recent stuff - and I'm pretty sure the vast majority of readers come just for that - you click on the John Smith link to the blog's home page at the start of each No War Blog post, rather than using permalinks (which work on the archive pages).
I've now reduced the home page to seven days' posts.
I've already found a workaround for one Blogger problem I'd previously thought intractable (dont' ask!) - eventually, I'll do the same with this one.
The problem is that, when I started out, I naively chose to go with monthly archiving, having no idea of the volumes of material I'd be generating. Now, I find the Blogger software refuses do what it's supposed to: allow me to change to weekly archiving (which would reduce the size of the page that any one permalink would load).
Needless to say, I've tried a whole bunch of things to get the thing to work as it should. I'm told by other Blogger bloggers that they have no problem changing their archiving frequency. But nothing works. Yet.
Anyone who's had this problem and fixed it, I'd dearly love to get in touch!
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