I will say this much for Blogger beta...

Posts publish MUCH faster. Used to be, I'd hit "publish" and wait, and wait, and wait for the post to publish (you know, that little screen that showed you the continually updating % complete). Now, hit the button, and "Presto! Change-o!" the post is published. So, that's a good thing.

I did find a link in a Haloscan forum that showed how to use the new Blogger widget template and still have your Haloscan comments work. I'll probably give that a try next week. This weekend is going to be another busy - but in a good way - weekend. No blogging for me until Monday.

"Luke, I am your father"

I like a lot of the features of the "new" blogger. I like how easy it is to add content, change the layout, and the way the archived posts are displayed. I don't like that I can't seem to figure out how to keep using Haloscan for my commenting instead of blogger's commenting, and I'm not ready to just lose all my comments, so I switched back to the old template style. Basically, no one will notice anything different but me. At least the labels are still part of the "new" blogger. That's a nice feature. I also added a Haloscan widget that shows "recent comments" in the sidebar. If you hate it, let me know and I'll make it go away. It just seemed like a cool feature, and I'm a sucker for gadgets and widgets.