I’m subscribed to a weblog that posts interesting articles about the type of area I work in. I also use Firefox as my (mostly) browser of choice. When I clicked through to the actual blog from my feed reader, the template wasn’t working properly so I couldn’t actually read the text. It did, however, work in Internet Explorer when I checked it there.

Being the courteous blogger I am I thought I’d email the author to let them know. I hunted around for an email address but couldn’t find one. There was an About page, but no contact information.

So I thought I’d leave a comment and mention it that way. To leave a comment I had to login to WordPress but I don’t have a WordPress login.

So this blogger still doesn’t know that there is a problem with their template and I have no way of letting them know. I did consider adding a link here, but decided against that because I’d rather tell them privately via email.

I even checked the original WordPress theme and that plays nicely in Firefox, so I guess something the blogger has done has broken the theme.

My two main messages to you are: test your blog different browsers if you can, and leave some sort of contact information, or at least make it easy for people to comment.

I’ve reinstated my blogroll. It’s expanded a lot from the ‘Blogs I read’ links that I used to have in the sidebar. Because I didn’t want to clutter up my sidebar with all of these this time they have their own page.

I’ve added the blogs I look at – usually – daily and I’ve also added the Australian bloggers as listed in the Australian Bloggers community in Bumpzee.

As I type this I am already thinking of blogs I’ve missed. As I say on my new page, if I’m a regular at your blog and you’re not on the list, please email me, or leave a comment and let me know I’ve been remisss. I won’t mind – honest.

A question – because I’ve done my blogroll on a Typepad page, does this mean that Technorati won’t love me and the people I’ve linked to? I did sneak a Technorati tag there though. I can’t find any information about link love from Typepad pages at all.

While I’m on the blogging bandwagon, I’ve been stumbling around StumbleUpon. It’s not quite as intuitive as I might have hoped but I’ll see how I go over there. I have three friends and don’t mind more so we can all stumble and trip around each other. If you stumble across me, please feel free to add me. I think that’s how it works.

I also just found out today that StumbleUpon have groups. I’ve joined the Australia group. I had to use the search function to find groups as there were no links on my page to show me that groups might exist.

As with Facebook I don’t know how much I will get into this because there’s only so much online social networking I can do. I already spend enough time in Google Reader checking out blogs I’m subscribed to, let alone writing StumbleUpon reviews etc. If anyone has any insight on how to manage all of this I’m all ears.

The latest Carnival of Australia is up at Dipping into the Blogpond.

Unfortunately I’m failing badly at finding the time to go and read this and the Women Blogging carnival lately because by the time I get home I just don’t want to spend yet more time at the computer. It’s all I can do to keep up with my subscribed feeds.

But, please, get over and have a read yourself as there are all sorts of posts on all sorts of topics. It looks really interesting.

Also, I’m the hostess of the Carnival of Australia next fortnight and I’ve already received some submissions. Please keep them coming.

Last week I was the recipient of a Thoughtful blogger award and this week I’m the recipient of a Nice Matters award from Jordan at MamaBlogga.

It doesn’t rain, it pours ey? Actually I wish it would rain here, we really really need some more. Now I just want to clarify, we don’t need floods, but if it steadily rained all night every night for a while then that would be good.

But back to being thoughtful and nice. Thanks to Jeanie and Jordan for these awards respectively. It means a lot.