Reboot.
Sometimes things are annoying.
Oh, sorry. That was rude of me. How are you?
Yeah, I’m a bit peeved.
I’ve been writing a super nerdtastic article on how to turbocharge your RSS feed and submit podcasts to iTunes!
I’ve created beautiful screenshots with annotations, clear instructions and bullet points.
It really is a work of art.
But I can’t share it with you yet…
…because I’ve been unable to turbocharge my own feed today. And my podcast remains unsubmitted.
I’m laying the blame for this entirely on feedburner.com because it’s the only part of the process that isn’t me. I know it’s probably my fault, but feedburner.com doesn’t have feelings and I think it’ll be okay shouldering the blame for a while.
Technical problems can be irritating because they are rarely the most profitable or effective thing you could be working on.
Despite Jeff's best efforts, his laptop struggled to learn Rock Paper Scissors.
And you never quite know how close you are to solving the problem.
It’s a shame to have spent four hours sorting out an RSS feed. But what if the solution is only a few minutes away? The payoff in those few minutes would be large. When do you give up?
Having gone through every troubleshooting attempt I can think of I have one last option to try…
If there’s anything I learned from my time as an I.T. consultant, it’s that the first thing to try in the event of technical failure is to reboot the system.
That’s going to be my approach today. Except that the system is me.
Tomorrow I might have another go. Or I might decide to create an RSS feed for my podcasts manually. No turbocharging in sight.
Either way I’ll show you how I did it, and that’ll make us both happy.
I’m off to bed for a reboot!
Reboot JJ, Reboot.
See you tomorrow. I’ll be cheerier then, no doubt…
Good night.
JJ Jalopy.
P.S. Two of my other websites are down today too. Sometimes it happens. Tomorrow will be better. 
Comment by Christian Haller
5 May 2009
Looking forward to learning about podcasts tomorrow. Yet another tool I should be using.
Christian Haller
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Comment by Rob Northrup
6 May 2009
Back when I worked as a programmer at IBM, we used to call this BRS.
Big Red Switch.
Hope tomorrow brings the answer.
Seize the Day,
Rob
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Comment by Lynn Lane
6 May 2009
JJ,
I know your ready to bust on the scene. Look for you tomorrow.
Lynn Lane
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Comment by Don Shepherd
6 May 2009
Now that i have been immortalized in your blog i will be a faithful groupie and wait for more instruction tomorrow.
Don Shepherd
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Comment by Steve Chambers
6 May 2009
Other people are always responsible for anything that goes wrong. Can’t wait to see the finished product.
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Comment by jc mackenzie
6 May 2009
Hang in there man
We’re all pulling for ya!!
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Comment by Duane Cunningham
6 May 2009
Hi JJ,
You know what you need to reboot successfully is large doses of Tequila!
Happy reboot my friend!
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Comment by Yann Vernier - Profitstactics.com
6 May 2009
Persistence, persistence, persistence!
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Comment by John Ho
6 May 2009
JJ,
Sometimes, we need to have patience. Technology and computers do play up from time to time, like human beings.
John Ho
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6 May 2009
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It can take us awhile to learn…..
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Comment by Mesha Casper
6 May 2009
JJ I think I understand how you feel! LOL sometimes we just have to laugh and take a reboot like you said that is what I did yesterday now I am at a friends house replying to your wonderful post yet again. We will not let these confounded computers get us down.:) I am excited and look forward to your amazing info tomorrow. I will even travel for it see how good you are I just can’t miss you no matter what. Thank you also for the kind words about my situation as well.
Nothing will defeat us:)
Mesha:)
Comment by Pat Becker
6 May 2009
And so to reboot. I don’t know how many times I’ve come back to a troublesome task the next day, had it go through perfectly and wondered what the heck was my problem the day before.
Pat
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Comment by David Power
6 May 2009
I know how you feel sometimes everything happens at once…just keep going forward!!!
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Comment by Darryl Pace
6 May 2009
Hopefully your subconscious will bring you some good tech-problem solving ideas while you sleep!
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