As I said this is mostly a test run for the comments section. People seemed to hate Echo. Of course they hated Haloscan too. The comments section here has always been a bit like Times Square in that sense. In any case there's no way to really test something...without testing it... and I had to upgrade to blogger's new (well 4-5 years old) exciting template to get things to work. Dark Ages HTML I could blunder my way through, but XML or whatever the kids are calling it these days, is a bit harder to follow. Anyway, point is this is mostly a functionality test at the moment. We'll see what the hive mind likes or does not. Aesthetic tweaks can happen slowly as long as things are roughly working.