For the 6 readers and 1 friend (I had 7 readers, but one dropped out, probably because I post too much :-)), you may have noticed a slight change in how my blog posts are displayed. I've been doing a lot of work in WordPress lately for several projects. One of the things I really like about WordPress is the ability to show an excerpt on the main page with a link to read more. This helps to keep the main page clean (as long as you don't overload the sidebars with widgets).
Blogger does not support this feature natively. By editing the HTML of your template and some optional "magic" tags in each post, you can mimic the excerpt functionality. This isn't for the faint of heart and requires some technical skill. I found the following post very helpful:
http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/04/blogger-read-more-post-summaries-fix.html
To get it to work properly, I had to translate the & tags to the proper character.
The musings of a Martial Artist, Software Developer, Entrepreneur, Father, Husband, Human Being ... not necessarily in that order.
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