Most Frequent Blogger Questions: A Caution To Businessmen


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Most Frequent Blogger Questions

MFBQ

Most Frequent Blogger Questions

I don't know more than I know--sometimes I know even less!
Click to see the incredible list, All The Things I Don't Know! If some portion of this blog is unreadable in Firefox, Internet Explorer, or whatever, tell it to go to hell then try another browser!!!

I don't know more than I know--sometimes I know even less!

Click to see the incredible list,

All The Things I Don't Know!

If some portion of this blog is unreadable in Firefox, Internet Explorer, or whatever, tell it to go to hell then try another browser!!!

EMERGENCY STEPS

Kick-starting The Blog
1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5 2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options. 3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.) 4. Republish (if in classic Blogger) 5. Reboot 6. Log out and log back in again (may change to an untroubled server) 7. Change or reload the browser (IE, Firefox, others) 8. Try a different computer, or see if you can duplicate the problem or avoid it in a post in another blog (make a test blog, whether in the same account or a second account, that's not public so nobody will see you screwing around!) ---Not necessary to do all of these at once!---

Kick-starting The Blog

1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5
2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options.
3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.)
4. Republish (if in classic Blogger)
5. Reboot
6. Log out and log back in again (may change to an untroubled server)
7. Change or reload the browser (IE, Firefox, others)
8. Try a different computer, or see if you can duplicate the problem or avoid it in a post in another blog (make a test blog, whether in the same account or a second account, that's not public so nobody will see you screwing around!)

---Not necessary to do all of these at once!---

Blogger may make problems for some computers about accepting cookies, especially when you are using the new versions of Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers. Difficulties with accepting scripts may be caused by security systems, antivirus programs, firewalls, and some add-ons. Check all your settings.

You may need to change your browser settings, or to list www.blogger.com and blogger.com as "trusted sites" in your Internet Options-Security so that scripting can occur.


USEFUL BLOGGER HELP FILE http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41971&topic=8914 [For Newbies or anyone else who gets lost in the rain in Juarez.]

Saturday, July 26, 2008

A Caution To Businessmen

AND OTHER VERY SERIOUS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO USE BLOGGER AS SOMETHING DEPENDABLE:
Hell, don't do it! There will be no guarantee that Blogger will keep the blog online and available all the time. There are glitches and gremlins and other problems that individuals may overlook (just barely), but, at any rate, they have no money at risk, just their own ego and pride. People who have money at stake become a different kind of beast. If you plan to start insisting on the UTTER SERIOUSNESS of your blog and of your need to keep that blog up and going 24-7, you will sometimes be out of luck, just like the individuals who blog here. [More below...] People who have business blogs often cry and scream that their readers MUST have access to the blog, but Blogger is usually not going to JUMP into action. I don't even have much sympathy for you, and I know how heartless Blogger can be! Whatever their excuse for it, neither civilians nor businessmen get instant fixes. So don't hang your life and soul on Blogger—and certainly not the Bottom Line of your business that you can't live without. In general, you get what you pay for. I've gotten more than I paid for, but I'm just one person, and I have low expectations.

AND OTHER VERY SERIOUS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO USE BLOGGER AS SOMETHING DEPENDABLE:

Hell, don't do it!

There will be no guarantee that Blogger will keep the blog online and available all the time. There are glitches and gremlins and other problems that individuals may overlook (just barely), but, at any rate, they have no money at risk, just their own ego and pride.

People who have money at stake become a different kind of beast. If you plan to start insisting on the UTTER SERIOUSNESS of your blog and of your need to keep that blog up and going 24-7, you will sometimes be out of luck, just like the individuals who blog here.

[More below...]

People who have business blogs often cry and scream that their readers MUST have access to the blog, but Blogger is usually not going to JUMP into action. I don't even have much sympathy for you, and I know how heartless Blogger can be! Whatever their excuse for it, neither civilians nor businessmen get instant fixes. So don't hang your life and soul on Blogger—and certainly not the Bottom Line of your business that you can't live without.
In general, you get what you pay for. I've gotten more than I paid for, but I'm just one person, and I have low expectations.

Origins

Mama Mouse,
who used to participate in the Help Group and is sorely missed, suggested the idea of stickyposts a good while before Blogger began "flagging" long-term messages with a Tack symbol among the other posts by mere mortals, which made me think at the time of a bulletin board with stickyposts. There's still no way to stick them to the top of Blogger Help Group if you're not Blogger, so it turns out that the only way to do any good is to set myself up over here as an overbearing small-time knowitall or ad hoc advisor. Just another impudent putz who started a blog to explain how Blogger works and some of how it doesn't work!

Sometimes my true Rat nature seeps into the answers like a urine stain (like "What the HELL do you want to know THAT for?"), though mostly it doesn't. I try to keep it respectable here, but that's difficult...

Samuel Johnson: "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."

We here at Most Fiendish Blogger Questions salute you for getting this far!

MFBQ