Blogger stuff you might need

There have been some cases where blogs have been hacked, deleted, shut down for unknown reasons etc.. I knew one blogger that got pissed off one day and deleted his blog along with 2 years of posts. Once he sobered up, it was too late.

Blogger has no known tech support and they rely on a useless message board that hardly anyone answers and will do nothing to fix a problem that is on the server side.

There are some things that you can do to protect yourself.

Here is how you do a backup if you use blogger:

Just insert your blog name into the address below on your web browser.

http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N Instead of N, type the number of posts you have

If your blog has less than 1000 posts you can type:

http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000 (be sure to put in your blog name)

It might take a few minutes to load, so be patient.

Then from your web browser choose "File" "Save as" then choose a place to store your blog backup. Burning it to a CD might not be a bad idea.

There is also a feature I just found out about that lets you access and manage all the pictures you have put on your blog. Just go here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/home and you can see everything that you've uploaded.

This feature is especially useful if you started back on the old days when there were tons of technical isses and you may have tried to upload the same picture 50 times.