Here’s another question, though:  the css template I began with uses lists as a formatting technique all over the place, and as I don’t want bullets everywhere, I’ve got separate styles defined for ul in various divs (so #sidebar ul and #rightbar ul are both set to list-style: none, while regular old ul is set to list-style: square).  But what seems to be happening is that whichever ul style loads last rules all the lists on the page—bullets are either on or off.  Anybody have a trick for making bullets appear here but not there?

As to the email issue—my understanding was that that was supposed to be disabled.  I’ll work on that.

Validation errors have now been corrected; we’ll see if the rendering problem persists.

And I’ll see about recoding the xml/rdf feeds.  Thanks!

Validation errors could easily be causing the erratic rendering behavior. FWIW, I’m getting it in Mac/Mozilla.

Instead of a redirect on the index.xml, you could edit that file (and index.rdf, if you had one) by hand to load the new feed instead.

On the RSS feed—I attempted to set up a redirect, and got a series of error messages therefrom.  So I gave up.  But I’ll try again.

Thanks too for the info on the validation/css errors.  As to the overlapping banner, this sounds like a variant on the problem that Matt had on Windows/Mozilla and which I’ve also seen intermittently on my Mac/Safari.  Reloading always fixes it, but I’m alarmed and puzzled that it’s happening in the first place.  Any thoughts on the whys and wherefores would be appreciated.

It would require you to create a new MT template for the .htaccess file, with something along these lines:

Redirect permanent < $MTEntryLink$> http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/index.php?/weblog/< $MTEntryTitle dirify='1'$>/”

(If you no longer have access to MT, that will be a problem. It might be possible to do this with a fancy php command to retrieve the info from the database, but that would require a real programmer :)

2) Your old RSS feed (http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/index.xml) is broken. Maybe add a redirect from old to new for people who have you in the aggregator and don’t realize you’re posting again? (That’s what happened to me; on a whim, I checked the site and realized that I wasn’t getting the posts. No error message was generated by Bloglines.)

3) On first page load, the banner overlaps the recent comments in the side bar. On subsequent page loads, it doesn’t. There are some HTML validation errors on the page (mostly related to ul/li missing tag issues, it looks like; you can see them here), and one error in your CSS.