Hey, just so you know ... this post is now about 15 years and 11 months old. Please keep that in mind as it very well may contain broken links and/or outdated information.

I noticed yesterday, after posting my Vista rant, that my bulleted lists didn’t have bullets next to them. Doing some digging in the Thisaway (Blue) template I’m using, I found the following reference:

.post li {
padding: 0 0 4px 17px;
background: url(http://www.blogblog.com/thisaway_blue/
icon_list_item.gif) no-repeat 0 3px;
}

Putting that URL into my browser, I got this:

The image “http://www.blogblog.com/thisaway_blue/icon_list_item.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

Doing a Google search, I found another Blogger user with the same problem … back in February 2007! No one had replied and I wasn’t able to either. I downloaded the file, which turned out to be 31k (a bit large for a small image like that) so I opened it up in a text editor and found, to my surprise, a template file that was apparently from the Ask a Ninja website! Not sure how that got in there. Just to see if anyone else had noticed this in the past year, I posted a new help question on the Blogger help forum (my prediction: no one replies/cares).

At any rate, I wanted to fix this, so I grabbed the icon_list_image.gif file from the Thisaway (Green) template and then modified it to a blue color to match my blue template. I put the image up on my own site, updated the Blogger template to point to it, and now the bullets are back!

If anyone else out there is using Thisaway (Blue) and would like the updated bullet image, you can right-click here and save it.