After a long lapse, I wanted to make a post to this blog again and got an XMLRPC 404 error.

I was blogging with Windows Live Writer. It did not give problems earlier and I have not upgrade my WordPress software.

A quick search on Google pointed me to Simply Buzz. I tried his suggestion of putting

<Files xmlrpc.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

in the .htaccess file and it worked.

In the old days before Internet, it would have taken me days to figure an obscure problem like this but thanks to Google and the internet and kind folks like Simply Buzz, I was back blogging this second post within the day.