My Website Blunder
Maybe I should have yelled "Help me, Mr. Wizard!" just a little bit louder.
Yesterday, around 6 pm local time, I was finishing the initial design touches on my "Blog & Article Reviews" blog (you can look, but it won't do any good to look too much; it isn't close to being ready for primetime) when my demonic goddaughter punched some keys on my keyboard and whacked this blog out.
Heizzel (pronounced like the English version, Hazel) is an overly hyperactive 4-year old who hasn't been giving me any peace while I've played surrogate babysitter. Yesterday was no exception. I couldn't survive 5 minutes without being brutalized (I kid you not) by this little hellion.
But… the website blunder was my fault. I had the FTP client up, she came over and punched a bunch of keys and I didn't see what happened (files transfer much faster with this [high speed Internet] connection). A few minutes later, I shut down the computer because her mother came home (and it's her computer) to do her nightly thing with it. It wasn't until I fired it up at about noon, local time today that I found out by email messages from my son in Germany, Hari of Hari's Corner and Stephen of More Than Scratch the Surface that something was terribly wrong.
It took me about an hour to find out that the ".htaccess", "wp-config.php" and "favicon.ico" files had been transferred from my local copy of VideoTyme to the root directory of my website, which just happened to be Untwisted Vortex, this blog.
It's my fault for trying to get some work done, instead of sitting on my duff, and I should have been more careful with the daughter of Satan nearby at all times. Oh well, what can I say? Shiitake happens. From here on out, I need to be extremely careful. I have no idea what effect approximately 18 hours of an unintended redirection has had (other than having sent more than 200 searchers to the wrong blog).
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If you want her to go away, give her something absorbing to do. Worked for my cousin.
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Unfortunately, I can't seem to get her interested in anything besides bugging me.
This girl's an angel… when she's asleep!
Oh well, it's good to see everything up and working again. I'm a little surprised that just a few keypresses could mess things up so badly.
PS: I like the design you've done for your new blog
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I'm not even done with the design yet!
Yep, the right combination of keypresses caused the problems. I was as surprised as you were.
You've certainly had your fair share of mishaps haven't you? Glad all appears to be back to normal..
–Steve
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More than my fair share is more like it.
RT,
My 2 year old is getting good with the computer. She can play some games, can open and close her movies, etc, but sometimes she wants to click everything! I've always been a bit nervous when she's like that – now I'm even more nervous!
Anyway, I'm glad it's back… I guess the main negative effect may be if Googlebot stopped by during the 18 hour period, but that should sort itself out next time it stops by.
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The Googlebot didn't stop by. I rebuilt the sitemap so that it would submit again anyway.
I don't think the tradition of godparents exist in our country and I'm glad it doesn't after this
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Yeah, I was trying to add you to my blogroll and I kept getting tossed to videotyme.com
. I am glad you fixed it!
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Damn, now I have to update my blogroll!?!
Too bad she's not sick. Cough syrup is a wonderful tranquilizer. I feel your pain and hope you get home soon.
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Happy Sunday morning,
Ouch, lots of empathy. Try having sippy cups of joy flung in your CPU's general direction as well; 'character building' doesn't begin to describe it.
Best wishes,
Barbara
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You have a very cute kid!
I think it's time now for her to learn some internet marketing strategies.
It's good to see your website up and running again