The Power of “kughsafkugsdafighsdfiuhsdf”
May 19th, 2007 by Kirk M
The strangest things do happen now don’t they? Upon upgrading Just Thinkin to Wordpress 2.2, I ran a test post from Windows Live Writer just to make sure everything was in working order. The post’s title was just gibberish as was the content of the post. A simple matter of banging randomly on the keyboard and doing a quick publish thereof. Unfortunately (fortunately?), I forgot one thing. My “Burned” feeds.
Even though I immediately deleted the above test post once I saw it had been published correctly, it was online just long enough to get picked up by FeedBurner and this is what my subscribers saw when they checked my site’s feed for the day:
kughsafkugsdafighsdfiuhsdf
from Just Thinkin’ by KirkM
kughsafkugsdafighsdfiuhsdf
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Needless to say, I heard about it. Hilarious! My overall readership went up a whole 5% by the days end even though the actual post had been deleted. Just goes to prove that the power of blogging can never be underestimated.
Technorati tags: worpress 2.2, test post, feedburner
LOL I never even thought about that. Wow even our test messages that we delete will be read after all. Not sure I like that. When you insert your images using WLW, do you insert by file or web? Just curious. Another thing while I’m on WLW, my cursor stopped blinking when I’m writing a post. Started doing that about 2 days ago. Very odd indeed! I can still type but it’s weird not having a cursor.
Hello Elaine,
Yeah, it definitely caught me off guard. next time I’ll just have to make sure the test post says something clever like “test post”
I upload the an image file (from my computer) directly to my WP install using the the image browser on WP’s write page or using WLW’s upload feature but in that case I have to use the WP editor to do any needed edits from then on due to the WLW image dupe problem. I stopped linking to images I stored on Photobucket and Flicker in order to save a bit of bandwidth when my pages load and to eliminate slow loading times when the Flicker or Photobucket site is choked with high traffic. With Bluehost’s new unlimited storage capacity, having lots of images is not a problem.
thats why i dont use feedburner, lol