I am back blogging!!

Finally, life has returned to normalcy.

After being missing from my blog for almost 2 months, I am back blogging. The quake in Taiwan had contributed greatly to my unavailability to blog, and salary paying job was being very hectic too.

The quake in Taiwan on 27th December 2006 had severely damaged undersea telecoms cables, and effectively cut off internet connectivity between Asia and Europe and US. This had halted the internet completely if you are planning to surf sites that are based off servers in Europe and US. Me, using Blogger.com, which is based not in Asia, had difficulties in accessing the site.

Now, for those of you who are reading, and is keeping count, that Taiwan earthquake don't equate to me being missing for two months since my last post. Yup. I had done some settings on my notebook that also had prevented me from accessing the Blogger site.

What I did was set my notebook to not accept cookies without my permission, and I spent plenty time deciding on which cookies to receive, and which not. I ended up rejecting most cookies, and even blocked some. What I had not noticed was I had blocked cookies from Google too.

This is not that big an issue, but as Google had recently conveniently bundled some of their services in one access named "Google Accounts", it was a problem to me. See, Google now parks their cookies in yr PC, and reads them whenever you use any of their services (Gmail, Ad-Sense, Ad-Words) and automatically signs you in.

As I had automatically blocked cookies from Google, the site repeatedly tried to access the cookie from my notebook, and when it does not find it, it gives me an error. Now this is normal, but somehow, the site automatically goes back to the homepage, which then tries to read and find the Google cookie again. This goes on repeatedly and resulted in me not able to access the blogger site.

So I had not bothered to blog with the auto login problem, and coupled with the fact that I was travelling much during January 2007, explains the missing 2 months. This wont matter to many out you out there, except of my some small pool of readers out there, you know who you are.

The Taiwan quake had also amused me, as I had read in amazement, on how many Asian bloggers suffered depression, anxiety and stress on how being able to blog after the Taiwan quake. They whine about not able to share the feelings and sentiments online, and that their readers are not able to comment on them either. Gosh, some of us really need to get a life, a REAL LIFE with REAL LIFE people and friends. We can always use the telephone to TALK to people, and we can always have lunch, dinners or even drinks to TALK to people. Hehe......

Anyway, nice to be back, and I will post some pics of Wii I took recently on my next post.