Google Reader

Anyone else out there use Google Reader?

I love the concept because I can spend time reading instead of spending time to find out who updated their blog. Of course, it's also too easy to add a new site to my roll.

EXCEPT - this afternoon there was some kind of Google burp and all my unread posts were marked as read. Now, I was behind (it's fair week!) and I was kinda stressing about it but this was not the way I wanted to mark them as read.

breath in
breath out

I'll be fine, I'm just miffed...

techie question...

Anyone know how to make this template wider? Or install one of the cute/wider templates? I admit I haven't tried too hard yet but if someone has an easy answer, I would really appreciate it.