All right, people, I'm linking a repeat, but here's why:
Here's the scoop on what made Typepad poop. (I know, I know, no more poop references, but it sounded funny when I thought it, it looks even funnier on screen, and you just have to DEAL!)
Typepad changed some things up last week. Nothing that you see, but all Typepad people know that their backstage prep areas (you know, the compose screens) looked a little different. Things were giveth. Things were taketh away. I didn't mind for the most part.
Until my posts were affected. Grr.
I wrote http://www.spriteskeeper.com/my_weblog/2008/05/foresight.html and had it set to publish on May 21. It published all right, but anyone who was logging into my site via spriteskeeper.com couldn't see it since, somehow, the domain name went inactive when the change happened, so new posts were presumed MIA and you all know I publish every day, so I started getting emails and calls (Thanks, Mom.) which alerted me to the error. I sent a ticket into Typepad and blasted them (kindly, of course, or some snarky Typepad geek would have renamed my site cryptkeeper or something.) and tried to get them to solve it.
Didn't happen too quickly (I guess there is no 8pm to 8am shift at Typepad) and I was checking into things myself while seated next to my geek husband who also did some snooping. I found out MYSELF that the doman was inactive so I activated it. MYSELF. (John was in the shower when I found out why we were having communication issues- the site, not us..)
Next morning, problem fixed. MYSELF. (Sorry, but I'm proud of that.) Now, the missing posts. The Foresight (For Naught?) post was completely gone save for 2 lonely comments. And another post I had written which hadn't published yet was also missing. SO, I sent Typepad even more nasty (Nice!) tickets to look into restoring my posts and Foresight has finally been returned. (The search party has been called off and the posters are being recycled.) Still looking for an ETA on my other missing post which I had to start re-writing and is driving me crazy since the content is not as polished or snarky as it was before. And you know what they say about good snark, right? No, really, I'm asking YOU.
So, that's why I'm linking the Foresight post since you may not have seen it earlier, so it may be new to you. And not to steal from NBC....oh, what the hell? They're not using it anymore.
And you're probably not even reading this post anymore.....are you?
Me neither.
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