This week, March 19-23, I will be in Cairo, Egypt, to present at a regional conference for Mitel resellers. I expect that I will not be writing much here or on my other blogs during this week.  Of course, if I wind up being stuck in airports that also have WiFi access… or decide that 12-hour airplane flights might be a good place to write… I might wind up posting.  But my expectation is that you won’t see much here until next week.  If I post anywhere, I may do what I’ve done in the past and post a bit of a travelogue to my personal blog and/or my Twitter account.

If any of you reading this happen to be in Cairo this week, do drop me an email as I’m always interested in meeting people in different parts of the world.

Back at you in a week…  I’m off to go sit in planes…

I’m suddenly experiencing some problems uploading images from Windows Live Writer to TypePad, so I’m just doing a sanity test from a different computer to see if the problem is with a specific computer.  If you are actually reading this post, I’ll know that the problem was with that other computer, and I’ll probably be in the middle of doing the whole shutdown-and-restart routine…  aren’t computers supposed to make our life more productive?

So if you are a user of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or 7 and want to see what this blog is really supposed to look like, try opening up the page in either Firefox or – on a Mac – Safari.  In both FF and Safari, it looks great.  The little tabs line up with the line underneath them… there is a dividing bar between the main column and the second column (the one with my picture in it)… and all around it just looks better.  I have now spent a serious chunk of time trying to get the CSS to work for IE and have to finally just say I can’t…  it will have to wait for another day.

Of course, the content should look the same in either browser, and at least I’ve solved the issues so that IE is now displaying the columns correctly…  argh… all of this is rather annoying.

It looks like everything has worked for the move over to “Disruptive Conversations”.  The one thing that appears NOT to have worked in the conversion is the FeedFlare.  Since I changed the feed name, the FeedFlare script changed… and now it does look like I have to edit the advanced templates to fix it.  So, I return to the coding…

Just testing to see why the FeedFlare is not appearing yet on posts.  FeedFlare seems to be working even the Advanced Templates, so it looks like I do NOT need to edit the individual template files, which is good to know.