Twisted Indifference

As made public at yesterday’s blog camp by Tarun, this blog had been down for a while. Sumit had been pestering me for the past couple of months to fix it and I have been slacking. After all, I am only a poor and unpaid “Chief Take-The-Blame Officer”. Yesterday’s events finally prompted Sumit to offer me what I have been asking for as payment. A bottomless mug of beer.

Root Cause Analysis: – The MySQL database was FUBAR.

How the database got corrupted is still a mystery. I had to restore from an old backup which is missing a few posts. Sumit will be posting them again soon.

There is a lot to be learned even from the politicians. No I am being serious. What else could have pushed Sumit to create a post titled Chief ‘Take the Blame’ Officer. This is a honourary position. That means I do not get paid to take the blame even if the problem exists between keyboard and chair (PEBKAC). I don’t get any money, might as well have some fun at Sumit’s expense.

In today’s case, the culprit behind the hideously misaligned posts was YouTube. As a precursor to an upcoming post, Sumit had embedded a video using the original HTML code from the site that for some unknown reasons misaligned the margins.

The blog is back to it’s original state sans the YouTube video. Sumit will post it at a later date after sanitizing the HTML code.