Any user of computers can tell you stories of the unexplained, those weird happenings that occur without warning or explanation. Those computer glitches that come from, well who knows where? It is as if the machine had developed a mind of it’s own, and sometimes I wonder.
A couple of days ago for some strange reason and from out of nowhere, this blog began to place all of the comments in moderation, although I allow readers to post their comments freely.
Confused, I went into the dashboard discussion area to see if the settings had somehow magically changed. Finding that they had not, I logged out and shut down my system completely (hard boot) as opposed to performing a simple reboot.
Of course by now I am having thoughts of something amiss on the server, or perhaps I have been hacked, you know, the usual paranoia that sets in when there is something out of the ordinary going on with your site and you cannot explain it. 
So anyhow, I restart and get back to my work, as I was working on a new resource page for this blog (coming soon BTW). Sometime later while scanning my Blackberry’s mail accounts I see an email from Wordpress indicating that I need to moderate my comments. Now was this from the previous weird occurrence or is this a new and accurate notice?
Back in the dashboard, I find two comments from regular readers here that are awaiting moderation. Now I am really confused (as if I needed help with that) and wonder what the heck is going on.
Looking into the discussion settings panel yet again, I find that the checkbox “A comment is held for moderation” is checked. It is about now that my ole pal Rod Serling and his long running Twilight Zone TV show come to mind because I knew I had not made that selection. So after deselecting and saving the settings, I waited for the next comment to come in.
When that did occur it was my good friend Ileane from Ms. Ileane Speaks and all was functioning as expected and has continued to date.
As they say, “alls well that ends well”, but I never figured that one out or understood why it occurred, which bugs an old techie like me.
So I thought I would have a little Friday fun with this and ask you about your weirdness your computer’s weird and unexplained happenings. LOL
Do you have some odd and strange computer related occurrence that you can recall and would like to share?
Keep Blogging!
