We now have a spell checker on the blog.  Or, at least, it appears that we have a spell checker on the blog.  Ok, ok, I’ll admit it; I have no idea how we got a spell checker on the blog.  But, apparently, sometime this week, the blog started spell checking.  Now, every time I make a spelling mistake, a squiggly red line appears under the word.  Isn’t technology wonderful!

When I first set up the blog, I noted that a spell checker would be nice, not only for me but also for others who post on the blog.  So, I went out to the Word Press (free blog program) web site to look for a spell checker.  The Word Press people did not have a spell checker but they did list several sites that offered free spell checkers for Word Press.

Following the Word Press directions, I down loaded the program to my PC.  From there I uploaded the program to the Word Press plug-in folder.  I then went to the plug-in tab on my blog so that I could activate the program.  But, when I opened the plug-in tab on my blog, the spell check plug-in was not there.  Hum.

I rechecked the directions and made sure that it was in the right folder, but the spell checker still didn’t work.  Noting that life is too short and that I can always paste to the blog from my PC which has a spell checker, I declared the spell checker to be an issue for a cold Saturday this winter.  But, now the spell checker works!

I know I should be happy but I am not.  Am I a chronic malcontent?  Perhaps.  But more to the point, there is a new version of Word Press that has just been released.  However, in order to upgrade, you have to disable all of your active plug-ins, including spell checker.  But since I never figured out how to enable spell checker in the first place, I certainly don’t have the slightest idea as to how to disable it so that I can upgrade.  Bah!