Writing in a Fishbowl v3 – Day Fifteen

3:43 AM: Since I haven’t gone to bed yet, yesterday is still today for me, and I have even less to report than I did with my last entry. I spent the day dealing with my child’s needs, seeing her therapist, doing tech support for my parents for a few hours, taking care of my child’s needs again, then spending hours trying to re-enable comments on my blog.I have no idea why I cannot fix the comments. I have gutted my blog code, replaced the code entirely with another blog of mine that has working comments, reset all the widgets, changed the template a dozen times, andSTILL NO COMMENTS. I give up. It can’t be done. There is something corrupt on Google’s end that is preventing me from re-enabling Blogger, Google+, and, even, Disqus comment systems. There is nobody at Google who will help me. Nobody to call up for tech support.At this point, I have 4 choices:Create a brand new blog, migrate all my content to it, design it just right, then delete my old blog and rename the new one with the old one’s name. Assuming Google let’s me do this, everything should be up and running quickly, but I’ll still be punished by Google for not having a secure domain.Do the above, and pay for an SSL Certificate, etc. at my domain host. I need to do this anyway. I’m thousands of unique visitors down monthly compared to over a year ago.Kiss Blogger goodbye. If I have to migrate content and fiddle with images for almost 900 posts, then I might as we...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Journaling Writing Source Type: blogs