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Thursday, October 8, 2009

A Native In The Sun Starts Over

My original blog, A Native In The Sun, is sadly lingering in cyberspace, waiting for me to sign in and write a post, which I am no longer able to do.  Although I can link over to it from here, (see Link To in sidebar),  I no longer have access to it due to something fishy going on with what I believe to be a phishing incident.  Or not.  I may never know for sure, but here is what happened:

Last weekend I was typing along happily when I had to break for a short time.  When I returned, I saw that I had been signed out of my account.  So I attempted to sign back in and in doing so, realized my password was no longer accepted.  Just like that.  Very big bummer.  In the next few days,  I spent as much time painstakingly investigating every detail in hope of re-enabling my account as I had spent deciphering how to get it started to begin with.  All to no avail.  I was angry at the injustice of it all for a short while, then a bit clueless as to what to do next, and finally I realized what the answer was.  Just start over with a second blog, and hope that my readers from A Native in the Sun (the first) somehow find me over here, because I cannot access that website to re-direct them.  Oh, and also change the passwords to any online accounts I have.

So to anyone who is new to A Native In The Sun, first or second, welcome!  My plan is to continue on  as before to complement my original blog.  Please be sure to check back in for more thoughts and observations about life from a beachlover's viewpoint.  And feel free to comment if you feel so inclined.

2 comments:

Gutsy Living said...

I cannot imagine what you must have gone through. I need to backup my blog. How do I do that on a flash drive. Is there a quick button somewhere on blogger that says, "back-up your blog"? I'd love to know the quick and easy way. Thanks and good luck with the IInd version.

Restless Native II said...

GW:

It is only with this second blog that I have realized I think you can backup our blog through Google if you go to Settings, Blog Tools, Import/Export/Delete. I will do some research on it so I know for sure.

I have always just made backup copies (hard copies/memory stick) for my own records, but those cannot be imported/exported.