My apologies for Chic In Black

Because of my internet problem (or Blogger.com) problem, Chic In Black this week was not posted. I think it's too late to post it now since we will be having another one in 2 days so I'll reserve that post for Monday.

I will however allow 2 posts for Chic in Black for each participant in the event that they still posted an entry on their blogs. I think their entries for this week still deserve the visit and comment from all CIB enthusiasts.

So, my apologies for this week's snafu. I've already scheduled the post for Monday and it will be up by 12:00mn. Thank you so much for your understanding.

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Offline, online... offline!

Little Missy was the one who noticed that there was something wrong with our internet connection. She couldn't connect to her games on my phone so she called my attention. I tried to check my connection and it seemed that everything was working properly. All the lights were lit, and I could access my Yahoo! Messenger and Facebook.

I tried to restart my computer just in case it would help and at first it did. But when I tried to write something to publish for this blog, I just couldn't. I tried during different hours of the day, until late at night or even early morning. I actually thought it was Blogger.com's fault, after all, they've been having hiccups since they changed their "look".

Thankfully, I still had my messenger and facebook so I asked my friends online if they encountered the same problem with Blogger. Aside from the missing GFC widget, they were able to publish posts they said.

The next day, I called up our provider (especially since Little Missy missed her daily story online). They did some remote testing but advised that there weren't any known technical problems in our area. I still had access to facebook and yahoo so I still thought it was Blogger.

This went on until today and after long hours of "hot" debate with my provider. My connection seems to have picked up a bit, but it's still a little sluggish. I'm just glad that I can also access and post in Blogger now.

Did you have any problems with your internet connection this week or with Blogger perhaps?

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Blogger is back

So a lot of bloggers knew that Blogger was down for 1 or 2 days. Being a newbie, I was scared of what might happen because I don't regularly back up my blog. Lesson learned, now I know I'll back it up every week!

Anyway, as soon as I read that people can login to their accounts again, I too tried and lo and behold, it worked. I got in and found all my posts intact, whew! The only thing I had a problem with was the layout. The 2 sidebars on the right weren't functioning. They all occupied 1 column.

I tried to fix them manually, but whether I was moving or adding widgets, nothing worked. They layout was still broken. I posted a one line rant about it in an FB group but I figured I would just sleep on it for one night and try to manually fix them again the next day, even if it meant the need to change the layout.

As soon as I woke up, I did all my chores and went online. I'm so happy that the layout has been restored, yahooo! Now I'm backing up my blog and my template, and contemplate if it's time to move to wordpress.

What do you think?

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