Ah well, progress anyway. Doubtless to be fixed and made easy to do in the future.

posted by Joe O'Laughlin at 10:26

posted by Joe at 9:28 AM

'<a href="http://www.o-t-g.com">http://www.o-t-g.com</a>' see my other blahg

posted by Joe O'Laughlin at 10:22

posted by Joe at 9:24 AM

V O I L A ! rtf emphasis for text in blogger tool does work!
also
'<a href="http://www.o-t-g.com/blahg"> http://www.o-t-g.com/blahg</a> see my other blahg

posted by Joe O'Laughlin at 9:52

posted by Joe at 8:54 AM

Had I read the Blogger support page, I would have found others before had the same issue.
>Answer
>"This error is due to an intermittent problem with the server the templates are stored."
... and further explanation.
posted by Joe at 4:52 PM

Day later check, to see if Blogger template woes are o'er.

posted by Joe O'Laughlin at 9:31

posted by Joe at 8:34 AM

Google buys Pyra(who developed and hosts Blogger)

This may be related to the "template no find" failure of the past week. ["the immediate impact will be to put their blog-hosting service, called Blog*Spot, on the vast network of server computers Google operates."]
posted by Joe at 8:00 AM