Somewhere in a very dark place resides any numbers of computer gods, digital demons and malevolent entities that lay in wait for the perfect moment to exercise their creative mayhem at my and possibly your expense. That is if you use a computer for any reason.

This usually coincides with my level of contentment at the time. If things have been going along swimmingly for too long I am at much greater risk of attracting their attention and giving them pause to notice me again. However, having said that, if things are really in the crapper, I mean rock bottom, OMG, what did I do in some past life to deserve this, they will often pile on and add to the misery just to see how much it takes to break my spirit totally.

This time they decided to mess with my blog, BigShotsNow. After a mandatory update to the inner workings of the code that runs this show they added a few little embellishments that would take hours upon hours off my life trying to figure out, let alone repair the damage..

Such as simply not allowing me to access the blog, period, I was locked out like totally. Then once that was resolved, I couldn’t get the images to load properly. After much inventive head banging I could finally post in what I thought was a normal fashion only to find out that those who shall not be named had locked up my total subscription list so that even tho I was posting the days post the emails that notify you, the people I do this for, were not getting sent the emails letting you know there was a new post. So from Nov 26 until Dec 22 no emails were sent. This may have been happening sporadically before then but I have no way of knowing how much or when. After a lengthy time speaking to all my new friends in Manila where my call center was located, I began to feel comfortable in Tagalog their native language (Mabuhay everyone). However with no results that fixed the problem.

Finally, doing what no sane person should ever do, I ventured into the inner workings of the blog where the holiest of holies resides, I’m talking about the code here that runs this whole enchilada. All those strings of incomprehensible characters that mean something to someone brilliant somewhere but are foreign to the normal unwashed laypeople who use this stuff, I found a little unchecked box. I checked it, and suddenly it allowed things to work again. That simple. But to be truthful I have no clue as to what I did or why it worked. All I know is that now the emails are flowing again like the pure rushing water out of the Well of Nazareth, so I will count it as, done, ok, get on with it, act like everything’s fine and post my little brains out.

Perhaps and most certainly this was way to much information and a normal person would have just said, “hey, it was broke. I fixed it.” and be done with it, as many of you know I can’t do that. But I wanted you to know what happened so you wouldn’t think I had abandoned you. You know, it’s Christmas, I wouldn’t do that. Hopefully things will go along as they’re supposed to but you and I know that’s wishful thinking. Anyway see you at the blog, Happy Holidays. Hopefully you’ll still get my emails.