As many of you are well aware, my fibrate.net site is officially DEAD. The painful journey to its demise is reminiscent of a hospital stay fraught with complications.
First, the chief complaint : Inability to save or publish posts.
A few differential diagnoses sprang to mind : bug with new WordPress upgrade 2.7, problem with host server, problem with web browser, Streamyx.
So I tried upgrading to Safari 4. Failed. Turned out it wasn’t compatible with my current version of Mac OS. So I upgraded to the latest version of Mac OS…but there was a bug with the installation process. It hung. On a Mac! A quick googling revealed that this was a known bug, and to overcome it I had to remove my Updates folder (read the pathophysiology, but I don’t remember it now). Still failed. Turned out I also needed a security update. Duh!
Finally, I got Safari 4 working. Still couldn’t post.
Firefox couldn’t even load my site.
Checked with my host. Everything was fine on his end.
Thought of further upgrading to WP 2.7.1. The automatic upgrade plugin suddenly didn’t work. No sweat. Downloaded it from WordPress and manually transferred the files via a ftp server ( I use Cyberduck). The upgrade involved overwriting certain folders and deleting and installing some. You know what? Now Cyberduck started to act up too! The more the merrier mah! I couldn’t transfer a single file. I couldn’t even restore the deleted folders. Googled for help…and then decided maybe I should upgrade to the latest version of Cyberduck. That I did. Outcome? The same.
Now, after excruciating hours spent in front of the monitor and weeks of frustration, fibrate.net is a blank white canvas. I hope to announce its imminent resurrection here someday. Till then, point your browser window here! 
what? all your previous posts gone blank! so sayang.. my condolence…
actually
why go through the trouble?
You could have just configure the fibrate.net domain to redirect all traffic here
Looking through what you did
You ARE a techie!
How did you learn to do all that?
After nearly 2 and a half years of blogging with the bare minimum of widgets…I’m in awe of THIS *wave hands* blog and how it overcame the difficulties on wordpress. Well done:)
Jason, I imported all my posts here before the scary blank white screen happened. Phew!
I’m no techie, Yenjai. I just have access to Google and tons of patience (worn thin already though). Although I own the domain name, I’m actually “squatting” on someone’s site. I believe I can fix this when I figure out what’s wrong…fibrate.net will live again!
Seriously Edina, once you get a taste of the myriad customization options available on a self-hosted blog you’d be hooked. But of course, only people like me stay home to do boring stuff online…some people have a vacation-filled calendar