crappy blogger templates

i'm going to have to consider either writing my own template, or moving to another blog technology.
every one of the default templates sucks for posting code, or any other long string of text for that matter. there's a lot more i could complain about, but that single fact at the moment is bugging me.

so, i've switched to a very basic template, and added the following bit of css to the code for now:

.post pre, .post code {
 overflow: auto;
}

this works, but is less than ideal i think. not sure there's a good answer, but i'm definitely going to start looking into one. for now, sorry for the ugly layout, but hey, if it's that bad, RSS ftw! ;-)