Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Ouch! My blog is busted!

What follows is purely technical. Feel free to move along.

One of the
excuses
reasons for the dearth of posts lately is, as a direct result of my own really, really silly actions, I nearly killed my trusty MacBook pro. happily, it survived my attempts at annihilation, but has needed a lot of tender loving memory repair. It's back to normal now, with no lingering effects.

So I thought. Today I noticed many of my blog photos have lost their links. Normally, shennaninigans on my computer shouldn't affect my blog, but I do remember reinstalling Picassa, or somehow or another renaming my Picasa web albums, or some such nonsense. I think because of this, I have somehow disrupted Blogger's link to my uploaded photos and >pppopphhhfffft< failure on my old links. All the photos are still there online, but ...

Do any of you clever peeps have a clue what I'm talking about (I barely do myself!)? Can anyone offer me some guidance on how to re-establish a link? Am I raving?

Meanwhile, suddenly (and almost certainly coincidentally) I am suddenly unable to post from my computer, due to some seeming glitch within the Blogger post editor?

WTF?

5 comments:

Pam @ herbieontherun.com said...

I don't know about all that stuff about your pictures, but I wasn't able to post last night either because the post editor wasn't working right. I don't think the two issues were related.

ShutUpandRun said...

I don't know if this would help: I use Windows Live Writer for all of my blogging. I create posts there, very easy to load picture, links, etc, then load them onto blogger. It is really super user friendly. Give it a try.

Ewa said...

Blogger has been misbehaving lately a lot. Many wise people advise to keep backups of posts through the export function. Seems like a good idea to me but I haven't done it yet.
Sorry but I can't help with re-establishing links.

See.Kate.Run said...

What did you do to you MacBookPro? Mine seems pretty hardy.

Stuart said...

ouch... i am guesing you broke all the urls for the photos and Picassa hosts them and pushes them to Blooger...try Live writer once you back up and blogging...much better GUI