Wow -- that WAS scary ....My Disappearing Blog Well, I am back online.
I automatically open to my blogger page when I open my browser.
It's one of a number of websites I open, automagically, thanks to firefox.

(Sidenote: I'd been waiting for that functionality -- maybe I had just missed it -- I had been using a browser which had tabbing, but was based on Internet Explorer, which I wasn't thrilled with using because of security reasons. If you don't use tabbing, you are definitely missing out!)

One day I noticed that the blog that opened was someone else's blog.
Curious, I thought.
I logged into my blogger account and, gasp!, my blogs were gone! Yikes!
The next thing I did was what any normal human being would do: panic!

FORTUNATELY -- I have those nice auto-complete features in my browser, so when I start to type in an address it will give me choices, if there are multiple possible ways to complete the url.

Using this, I was able to get all of my archives -- in fact, all of my published posts, just not my one single, lonely draft.

I wrote panicked posts on various boards.

Conclusion: "They're gone, Jim" (er, sorry, paraphrase from that great scene in one of the Star Trek movies where "Bones" tells Capt. Kirk that Mr. Spock is dead: "He's dead, Jim."

I was given links to writings about this fine hosting organization deleting quite legitimate blogs in its effort to combat splogs. I was dutifully impressed, and curious, as to how my few-post blog, that I have never pinged, and, judging by my ability to monetize my blog -- no one even reads :( . And I hadn't changed anything recently.

Well, amazingly enough, I logged into my account again, and the blogs were there! Ta-daaaa!!! Except that my blog was not accessible via the 'net. I tried everything I could think of, such as republishing my blog, etc. No luck.

Well, the blogger support people had been helpful to me before -- so I fired off an email to blogger support.

They sent back a form letter, referring me to a very easy to read, and informative, post about what might be wrong.

But -- I didn't fit into any of those categories.

However, a few days later I was again able to access my blog from the internet!!!

Hooray!!!

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