I've been struggling with my templates for a while now, blogged about it here and here ... and posted all my problems at the Radio Userland discussion board.  Was a bit embarrassed by this exchange at Seblogging .... where Sebastian Fiedler in an exchange with Tom Hoffman (in a different context really) wrote :

"Tom,

Unfortunately, Microsoft starting to impose their "features" and "standards" via Windows is a very likely scenario, isn't it? and if this happens there is not much we could do against it, could we? Just today I wanted to "blog" a post from Dina Mehta's Weblog and was literally blown away by the most ugly html code I have ever seen for a single blog post. All hard coded formatting crap, etc. I am pretty sure Dina is writing her stuff in one of the wonderful Microsoft packages before she posts it on her Weblog... do you know what I mean?

Sebastian "

But I think i'm finally getting there !  Just waiting for the result of this upstream.

Many people have volunteered to help, having read some of my rants .... Terry, who has not only pointed out errors in my templates but has painstakingly re-written them for me and sent me useful pointers on RSS feeds and html editing  ... Lilia, who shared relevant parts of her templates for me to hack, and some tips for easy editing ... Sameer, who is not a Radio user, yet pointed out errors and ways i could correct them ... Stuart who helped me write my original templates that i screwed up so bad subsequently !  And Lawrence Lee, and Mark Paschal, and Jim McGee who've also been helping thru the Radio discussion board.

Whats amazing is i've never even met any of these wonderful persons - Terry's in Atlanta, Stuart's in San Francisco, Lilia's in the Netherlands and Sameer in Mumbai - i've only had some interesting exchanges with them online ... and they are friends today .... thanks to networks like Ryze and tools like blogging. 

More power to meaningful conversations and exchanges, and the ease with which these are facilitated by social software.