Obligatory "Welcome to my new blog" post

Hello!

Welcome to my new and shiny blog! I'm going to see a film today. I may even review it here when I get home.

Damn Blogger.

You'd think something like this that purports to let even the most computer-illiterate people publish webpages would work straight out of the box wouldn't you? But nooooo. I tried this two years ago and the automated archiving was just dead. And this time, I select a template for my new blog, fire off a post and am instantly greeted with a giant Error (Your template is empty).
It bloody shouldn't be! I clicked a radio button and everything!

But never mind. I have now persuaded the wonderful Dots Dark template to work. Mmm... dotty.

And no intended personal offense to Mr Douglas Bowman but I think I shall have to re-learn css and customise my template ASAP.