Shut Down

Ironically enough, I encountered my first tech-related obstacle this summer with this very blog. About 2 days after I created it, I was no longer able to add to it. The message that appeared told me that my blog was under investigation for violation of the agreement (my wording is off, but that was the gist of it). After a few days of confusion, I googled this message only to find out that many folks using blogger have encountered the same problem. I guess that google is slightly over zealous in checking for spam. I then realized that I should have had an email asking me to confirm that I am in fact a real person (whatever "real" means in this context). After finding said email in my hotmail trash, I had to wait another 2 weeks or so until google allowed me regular access again. Questions that this situation raised for me -- when should I be proactive in solving such a problem? How should I be proactive? Should I have contacted customer service, or something? Should I have abandoned hope sooner and found another place to host my blog? The good that came out of this situation is that I have set up another, more private blog for my professional development needs. Though this blog related to my professional development, I think that it is best to keep these 2 arenas separate, an organizational insight that had not originally occurred to me. Such a consideration grew out of this snafu with my google blog. If only all technological frustrations could have such a silver lining...