How I Broke The Internet

It seems every time I have anything to do with Yahoo, I end up swearing and cursing its very existence. A friend recently invited me to join her Yahoo 360 list of friends, which I did, but in the process I was tempted to create my own Yahoo 360 page. In fiddling around with things I started another blog over there - essentially to duplicate posts made here. That seemed easy enough but then I noticed I could syndicate my posts directly using an RSS feed.

I'm not going to try and explain how RSS works but the acronym RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. Let me just say, it's not quite so simple. I created an account at FeedBurner and pointed it at my blog here. Then I subscribed my Yahoo 360 feed to the link at FeedBurner and a quick test post here confirmed things appeared to be working as they should. However, when I wrote a new post the following day, something weird happened. Well, several weird things, actually.

The new post I created failed to show up on the main page of my blog here and there was no sign of it in my Yahoo 360 page either. It did, however, appear at the FeedBurner site and the link back to the orignal post confirmed the post did exist somewhere here -- just not on the front page. Gah! I created a second post to test things again: same result. Then, when I tried to delete the first test post, and all the prompts suggested the deletion was successful despite the fact the post remained large as life on the main page of my blog. Fuck.

Anyway, after clearing my Internet cache, the recalcitrant posts disappeared from my blog but the pages still exist in cyberspace!