Taming The Blog Monster

My journey into blogging

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

I've spent HOURS on trying to set up my first PING

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First up I went to set up my Yahoo account and each time I tried to submit my details it would tell me I had cookies disabled so I couldn't set up an account.
To cut a long story short, even with all Zone Alarm and IEv6 cookies enabled and the Yahoo urls added to trusted sites etc etc, it still wouldn't work until I double-clicked the blocked-content privacy icon in the IE status bar and found one completely unexpected URL which when added to the Per Site Privacy Actions in IE as an "Allow" made everything work !
Having got my account set up, adding the two RSS feeds for my blogs was easy.
Then I hit the next snag !
The Yahoo ping api causes a memory exception error when run under WindowsXP !
I've spent hours trawling the web and putting a query up on the Digital Point forum
Having come this far there has GOT to be a way . . . I hope !
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