Nicholas M Ong

Ok, so it was a genuine oversight on my part about that ‘private’ post that turned out ‘not-so-private’. I had marked the post as ‘private’ in my WordPress Dashboard. I didn’t realise that as long as you are ‘logged in’, you will be able to read it. It slipped my mind to key in a password to protect the post. Well, all that has been fixed. As web technology advances, a little slip-up and this is what happens. The RSS Feed-via-Email delivery service from both FeedBlitz and FeedBurner is obviously oblivious to a ‘logged in’ requirement or ‘private’ setting on a remote weblog. Well, I can’t blame them can I?

I have received a few emails from some of my readers. I am not sure what to tell you or how to respond. Some had thought it was a joke. Some had thought it was shameful. Some had asked what the hell happened. Some told me to screw it and move on. Bill was pretty sharp in linking my recent trip to Hanoi to JO.

The bad news is my private rants got into the ‘INBOX’ of my subscribers. I can’t say any of them appreciated it. The good news is I figured out what went wrong. One thing is for sure. The names mentioned in that post, none of them knows I have a weblog except for JO. As for JO, I doubt she even know the URL much less reads it. I’m sure some of you folks would probably be telling me that it’s my name for crying out loud. Yeah, now we know… So, no need to run…

In any case, thank you for the feedback and encouragement. I took some time off yesterday to clear my head. If without a valid reason, your number gets deleted off someone’s cellular, MSN & Yahoo deleted and blocked and pretty much the same thing on Facebook, I’d reckon you probably be thinking “what the @#$% is wrong with that person?!?”.

Anyway, all set in stone and time to move on. Have a good weekend all. I’ve made plans for mine too so that’s a good moving forward and I’m fine.