The Playground

I subscribe to Feedblitz for new posts at Learning Movable Type. I couldn't help wondering what was going on when the page that opened was "Welcome to About.com". All the links from Feedblitz opened the About.com page. Is it a case of hijacking do you think? Nothing on the About site even hinted at an MT article. Even typing www.learningmovabletype.com directly into the address bar gave me the same results: About.com. Using a favourite shortcut that I'd saved months ago produced the same result. Has Elise gone over to About? Somehow I doubt it. The only link that actually worked properly on the page was to BlogHer, and after searching for Elise on that site and then following the link again to LMT, guess what? Yes, back to About.com. Another shortcut I had saved was LMT links from www.elise.com/mt/links. Guess again where I ended up? Yes, back at About.com. This is no longer funny and right now I am really quite annoyed.

A link on the Six Apart forum finally got me to a 2004 post on the LMT site, and from there I was able to access the main page successfully. Talk about a frustrating experience.

This time when I enter www.learningmovabletype.com in the address bar it worked. I'm quite baffled and perhaps the problem is here on my own computer.