New world problem, old world solution

Early this morning I click on my blog page and find that it's blank white. No error message, no "Page Cannot Be Displayed", no nothing. Tried from my other computer, nothing.

With a disgruntled sigh and a weary, pre-coffee roll of the eyes, I chalk it up to a 'Case of the Monday's' and begin looking at all the backend HTML code to find a weak link in the chain that I may have accidentally dropped in there which might have hosed things up.

Side note: anyone who has not yet seen the chaotic beast that is HTML cannot fully appreciate how painful it can be early on a Monday morning picking through a mountain of it looking for an undefined, elusive speck of dung that just might be jamming the gears. Here's a tiny smidgeon of the smelly stuff just below the surface of my pretty green blog. Now imagine wallowing through pages and pages of this:


dl.profile-datablock {
margin: 3px 0 5px 0;
}
dl.profile-datablock dd {
line-height: 140%;
}

.profile-img {display:inline;}

.profile-img img {
float:left;
margin:0 10px 5px 0;
border:4px solid #8b2;
}

#comments {

.....et cetera, et cetera.

After about 10 minutes of this I remembered how people used to fix televisions before plasma screens and high definition DLP dohickies. Back then they too were complicated beasts, not unlike the guts of my clunky blog. You didn't need to know anything about fixing them -- all you needed to do was smack the side and the picture came back.

Hmmm.

I threw out a quick blog post called TEST, pressed SUBMIT,

smack!

and I envisioned somewhere down in the depths of the Google empire in Irvine California one of the monstrous servers which serves as a cozy home for my little blog was jolted awake, no doubt with a brief milisecond of mechanical hard drive chatter and voila!, we're back in business.

You see? Sometimes the simplest of solutions yeilds the most complex of results.

.....We Now Return To Our Regularly Scheduled Program.....