Darn! It was kind of getting uncomfortable hanging upside there and would be akin to getting a root canal treatment if I had stayed there longer …

Anyway thankfully my blog is now back up and running again and it’s nice when things are running along fine just the way they were before. I like routine sometimes and boring is also good; sometimes. So what went wrong? It was not the servers and was probably due to a file corruption during the ‘publishing’ process. I copied over from the archive one of the file with empty bytes and that did the trick (or I think that's what I did). And coincidentally at around the same time Kenny (who kindly offered to help me - wah! darn lucky right?) told me that it was something he did after tinkering with blogger settings. Whatever it was, my blog was up again. Phew!

Now I can probably understand why so many people just adopt the standard (and boring) blogger template and stick to it for dear life for the longest time! But not me as I hate ‘standard’ things; but that’s just me. I had changed my template thrice since I started blogging just over a year ago and each time I had ‘tampered’ with the standard template to customise it the way I like it. Not that I had nothing better to do but I like to ‘test’ and see how things would work and I just plain hate ‘standard’ (and ugly) things; but that’s just me. I’m not techie or programmer but hey, the blog is not gonna explode! It’ll just go down – for a while; that’s all! And if you go kayaking and never dare try new things or venture on waters you've never been before; you’re never gonna discover new interesting places or become a better kayaker.

Did I regret shifting to ftp publishing instead of publishing on blogger’s free servers despite all the hassles? Not at all and I’ll probably be ‘tinkering’ with my blog template settings if I get bored with the current one! I remembered when I was a student in Australia years ago and the prime minister (Malcom Frasier - remember him?) there then was hated for always saying "that life wasn't meant to be easy"! I think I'll probably be hated too for saying that its not meant to be too comfortable either; well sometimes at least! (I love comforts!) Be well!