There is a quasi-technical side to blogging. WordPress makes it super easy — until something isn’t working right. Technical Trouble-shooting separates the blog nerds from the wanna-bes; and recent events prove that I am firmly in the latter category.
I have a computer science degree collecting dust somewhere. At one point in time, I could write and test a very respectable COBOL program — which was very useful in the Year 2000 heyday (remember that?). In the many years since I have hung up my programming hat, technology has changed at a blistering pace.
Subscribers to this blog quit getting email notifications of new posts a few months ago–despite the fact that I’ve made no changes to the notifications software or settings. I am not so naive to believe that all of my subscribers are actual people (vs. bots)… but still, there are one or two of you that read (if not enjoy) my periodic posts.
This turned out to be a sticky problem that defied resolution. After hiring some geeks, who failed to resolve the problem; a couple hours on the phone with tech support; a couple more hours in on-line support ‘chat’; and a couple MORE hours cleaning up the multitude of fake subscriber emails that were clogging up my system and exceeding my email limit. I think (?) email notifications are working again. But, after all that work, I had no energy to write anything of even marginal interest.
If you are reading this, I assume you are a real person … sorry for all the test emails, and PLEASE rescue me from your spam folder!