Seeing Double

Well, we are going to be going through a period of double-vision here. You will notice that there are these nice titles on the articles where before there were none (if you happened to look around on the last day or two).

What happened is that I managed to turn off article titles, not even knowing I'd done that. Then I started making titles by hand. Now I've figured out how to turn the automatic ones back on. And consequently, while the default page and at least one archive page are in transition, you'll be seeing two titles, the nice new big ones, and a smaller one more-or-less the same as the official, larger one. The newest posts will have the new larger ones, and the oldest posts will have the smaller similar ones, and there will be a short period of overlap.

How'd this happen? Well, ermm, uh, it was before Spanner arrived and, uh, you see, heh heh, I tried editing the template for the Orcmid's Lair Blog. And I messed it up. You can see how the titles disappeared back on my first week of blogging, when the defective template was applied to all earlier pages. See the "<$BlogItemTitle$>" text at the top of the left-hand column, just below the title of the bog? That's what is left over of the mess I made. Then around Labor Day weekend of 2003 (just one year ago), I noticed the strange text and removed it. But I didn't notice that I had crippled titles and that they were still crippled. Instead, I had created a practice of providing titles exactly the way I wanted them. I thought that is the way it was. Really. I've been manually creating titles for the past two years.

Then, earlier this year, Bill Anderson complained that his posts on Numbering Peano (which has a template cloned from the one on Orcmid's Lair) didn't have titles and mine did! Of course, I was putting all of mine in by hand because I'd always been doing it that way.

So, with luck, titles are back to stay on Orcmid's Lair and in a short while, they will return to Numbering Peano also. The double vision will clear up in a while, and you might want to avoid operating heavy equipment until it does, aye?

I wanted to hide this account in the Professor von Clueless blog, except you are experiencing the impact right here. Well, uh, sorry.