Cocktail Confessions

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Being the somewhat anal retentive person that I am, I hate unsolved mysteries….especially those that were caused by me that affects something I had worked on and the summation of the individual parts don’t match the outcome. 

Call it a little OCD on my part, but I really can’t rest when I know the answer is right there in front of me, but I just can’t see it.  I’ve always been like that, trying to figure out puzzles and riddles, or putting something back together that I took apart and it just won’t fit together exactly right.  I’ll comb wiki’s, faq’s, user notes, etc., to decipher were I turned right when I should have turned left.

So as noted earlier, I had discovered that my FeedBurner (upper right hand corner of my Blog) wasn’t updating correctly and I narrowed it down to something that had changed over the last 4 posts.  After meticolously combing over as many various avenues I could think of (and sometimes repeating them 2, 3, 4+ time just to make sure) which all seemed to have a positive outcome, I sat there scratching my head for a while.

As a last ditch effort, I went line by line (in HTML) over the last few posts, and sure enough, about two-thirds through one of them, I found a suspicious tag.  On the surface it looked innocent enough, a ‘span’ tag that was opened and closed properly by all account, but basically served no real purpose in the place that it resided.  It just didn’t belong if it isn’t really encapsulating anything, so I took it out…and voila….post update and publish and FeedBurner was back up.

It took me quite a few hours to find it, but at least it allowed me to clean up some other coding as well, and now I’m back on track.  Now that I restored it, my mind can rest, and all is right withing my little universe.