Two hours down the drain

Today I had attended a session on creative writing along with my colleagues. To make sure that it didnt go as a waste, I had decided to pen a beautiful blog today.

I spent more than an hour and half in the middle of the night between 1:30 to 3:30 am in composing one. It was supposed to be the biggest blog, I have ever written. It was so big that it was longer than all my previous post combined. I had tweaked it, edited it and previewed it several times.

Finally when I clicked on "Publish", all I got was a connection time out error. I did a refresh but it was of no use. So I pressed the back button and to my horror, it showed me a clean blank page with the message that the page had expired. Give that shit a decent burial.

I had done this with Microsoft IE6.0. I am not too sure as to whether this error was with the server or the browser. I normally use only firefox but in this instance the www.blogger.com site wasnt coded perfectly. Hence I was forced to use IE and now I paid for it :-(

I am being paid roughly Rs. 1000 per day. Which turns out to be Rs. 125 per hour. So I have lost 250 bucks. Not to mention the mental agony. I guess I should sue them. May be my dad will represent my case.

Infact the blogger website's home page had also gone down. So I wasnt even able to login for the first 10mins to post this post-mortem post.........

It was one valuable lesson which I wont forget in a hurry. No matter what save incrementally. Atleast the data & effort lost wasnt official with deadlines to be met.


Follow-Up on 23 Jan 2005. I read the help pages of Blogger website. Bcoz they are from Google, they claim that their site supports Firefox. Infact it seems all their developers use Firefox only. Its surprising bcoz I am not the only one having problem even for my colleague the buttons dont work in firefox browser.