Upgrade city.

There are two problems with the new beta that are throwing wrenches at me.

1. I'm having difficulty backdating posts. This is a probably a temporary glitch, because there is a field that you can use to enter postdates. ("Classic" Blogger defaulted to a time stamp of the moment that you hit the "create" button to open a new post. Now it re-writes the datestamp as the moment you hit the "Publish" button.) The change makes sense, but it means that I have to pay attention to the order that I actually publish posts in if I want them to appear in a certain order. I also can't do the "fake realtime" (as with my vacation from last year) or put up a post dated a few days in the future so that it always stays on top. Of course for all I know, there's a place deep in the bowels of the settings that can change this.
   
2. To take advantage of the new functionality (Like the labels and the pulldowns and so forth) I can't get into the html to tinker with the coding. Blogger help says that this is a temporary situation, but after all the joy I've been having to get this far, I'll probably hold off tinkering for a while. Not too much of an issue, as the templates are more malleable in the new environment anyway.
   

On the plus side, the new system is a lot faster and (frequently needlessly) slicker. The new features are helpful (even the ones that I won't use) and the upgraded spellchecker is a hoot.