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Who Turned on the Heat?

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Who Turned on the Heat?
Photo-A-Day #1423

A surefire way to make a blogger stressed out is to have their blog go down, especially after they’ve written a pretty sweet post. We’ll that is what happened to me last night. I was monkeying around with my blog at 11:00pm. Here’s a hint, don’t go making changes to major settings that late at night unless you are willing to forgo sleep either by fixing your mistake or tossing and turning all night thinking about that mistake.

So last night I thought, hey I haven’t gotten anything done on my action list but I did write a few posts why don’t I tackle that site redirect thing for I’m Not A Famous Blogger. I think I now know my mistake. I got rid of the blog I’m Not A Famous blogger and then tried to redirect that domain name to the About page here. I tried that in a few places through my GoDaddy tools, however I put my blog in some sort of crazy infinite loop.

Pulling over to stop for directions.

I finally put a ticket in for help from GoDaddy last night around 11:30pm and went to bed. I actually did not toss and turn as I expected I would, I was pretty tired and I knew that somehow this would all be fixed. I woke up and thought to myself that what I need to do is reset everything and it will all be fixed. Well, I tried that last night and I had forgotten the .htaccess file. Sure enough it was all wonky. I uploaded an older version of the file from before the monkeying around. I thought the fix would be instantaneous and it wasn’t so I was again fired up. I tried everything I could do before we left for church. Then we came home and went right back out again to shop for the week’s groceries. It wasn’t until much later after that when I went back online and was very surprised to see that I had comments on my posts. That meant that the posts could now be seen.

Lesson Learned

Sometimes things work themselves out. You just need to set in motion the right set of events and see what happens. When you obsess over every little issue you cannot step back and see the larger picture in front of you. Also, a good night’s sleep works lets you see things from a different perspective.

What about GoDaddy?

I didn’t hear from them yet. Not mad, no judgment just the facts.

Photo-A-Day

You’re Fired

You're Fired
Photo-A-Day #1273

Eva in the computer chair doing her best Trump impression (she has better hair.) In her Trump mode she should be firing me as blogger for The BenSpark. I did some work on my blogs today. Some things didn’t go so well.

I decided to upgrade my hosting on GoDaddy. I was already paying for Economy hosting so the cheapest route for me was to go Deluxe. I was able to then set up hosting for Allison’s blog Sparky’s View, I was also able to change Google is Not God. I screwed up The Wired Kayaker and need to talk with someone at GoDaddy because of the mistakes I made when attempting to get that blog hosted. I also have to get Read To Me, Dad set up back in my hands. Lots of work ahead but that is what I need to do to get on the right track to becoming a better blogger. I also registered a new domain today. I got an idea for a new blog while at IZEAFest and I think this one is going to be very fun and informative. Check back as I work on it and plan to unveil it at a later date.

Yesterday I received an Edge Tech Corp 7″ Photo Frame. I’ll be setting that up at work and making a video of how well it works soon. And next month I’m holding a contest to give one away. I’m announcing that early and putting up a link to Edge Tech Corp on all of my blogs to keep people excited about the upcoming contest.