I Am a Technical Goddess (/delusion)

On the one day the Advice Goddess is kind enough to link to me (a big "Welcome!" to her readers), I manage to make a technical spectacle of myself: the entire left side of my blog vanishes! Well, in an effort to save face, I should like to point out that there were mysterious forces involved. (As a general rule, nothing is ever my fault, especially when it comes to technical things.) Also, I did manage to "find" (exactly how, remains a mystery to me) the archives, and I reconstituted the links. The one thing gone forever (or so I think) is my Site Meter counter. Well, fine; I might as well continue the delusional theme of this post's title, and imagine I have a lot of hits.