formatting issues?

i had to leave my beloved laptop with the "geniuses" at the mac store a few days ago when i was in the nearest big city. poor thing's fan had started making funny whirring sounds (that were, of course, not reproducible in front of said geniuses). so my laptop is not with me, which leaves me not only with a good deal of separation anxiety, but means that i'm forced to use my old PC desktop.

the experience of using a PC again has proven to be very odd. I'd oh-so-joyously forgotten about the crashing, freezing, restart updates, and generalized slowness of windows. this is kind of funny, considering that i customized this desktop myself and spent a considerable amount of time tweaking it to my liking. i was annoyed last year when i learned i'd have to buy a laptop for school (no matter which direction you go, they're expensive). but i got my macbook pro and never looked back.

now that i'm having to spend a few days on the pc, though, i've noticed something that i'd forgotten to check about: web-page formatting. (i say forgotten, because when i use dreamweaver to work on a website, i'm always careful to check to see how the page will appear in the various different browsers.) i pulled up my blog on this pc in both firefox and ie and am seeing some egregious formatting errors. is my page appearing strange on anyone else's computer?

i had a moment today where my past-post widget appeared with the month names in spanish. how odd is that?!?!?

if anyone has thoughts on how to ensure that blogger behaves on all platforms, i'd love to know the secret. in the meantime, my apologies for missing pictures, strange languages, and other odd behaviors on the blog. never a dull moment, eh?