So here's what happened to this blog...

Last Thursday I wandered into my cottage on the edge of Tyron Creek State Park bleary eyed and exhausted from the Timbers 1-0 victory over the Islanders. I loaded up a few photos onto my Yahoo Small Business account and set about writing a quick blog post to go with them. I hit "publish" and...then nothing happened.

I hit "publish" many more times over the course of the following two days, all to no avail. For the first time in over 5 years and 1700+ blog posts I could suddenly no longer subject the world to my scribblings and craptacular photography skills.

I spent three hours on Saturday trying to solve the problem. 29.5 minutes of a 30-minute call to Yahoo Support was spent listening to hold music before I finally hung up in disgust. Still, at least Yahoo has a support line. I still have yet to find a way to report the problem to Blogger. Their site only offers an unhelpful forum and nary an email address for support. If there is one I can't seem to find it.

Based on what I've read online, there's some sort of strange SNAFU between Yahoo and Blogger that has halted Small Business customers' ability to publish posts about super important topics like the retirement of a medium-size American city's soccer mascot (see above). After spending hours talking to a customer service rep far more sympathetic than the one I dealt with, one user found a workaround that, of course, didn't do jack squat to get Another Portland Blog back up and running.

I can still write blog posts. I can even still use my URL. What I can't do is to get everything working like it once did in the woebegone days of...last week. Thus, the new, stripped-down and hopefully temporary format you now see before you.

This bites. Thanks for nothing, technology.