How do I solve a problem I've never had to solve before?

For example, I did not know until just now how to make a new post on my blog. I read on Katilyn's blog that the first step she would take is to admit that there is a problem. I liked that. Before I saw that, my first step would have been to: ask for help. See what someone else might know about the problem. That would usually mean for me calling my mom. Asking someone else that I consider knowledgeable. Nowadays there is this handy dandy little tool called the internet. The world at my fingertips. Doing research to see if there is any literature or documentation out there on the problem is a route to take when solving a never-before-solved problem. That is how I would get started on solving such a problem.

For me, I _was_ going to wait until class tomorrow and ask a classmate how to go about posting a new topic on my blog. I looked through other peoples' blogs to see how they might be loading their posts and comments. Then I just sat and stared at my computer screen until I saw the top menu bar, and then the button "new post". Problem solved.

Another such problem I solved with this method was babysitting a little boy with gum stuck in his hair. I had never faced such a problem before. So before I went to phone my mom, I first had to soothe the little boy, and get him to sit still and stop crying. By that time I had thought better about phoning other people, and decided to do research on the internet for home remedies to get gum out of hair. I found that dousing the besieged hair in olive oil, and leaving it in for several minutes was a successful solution--luckily his hair was very short, so I picked out the now slippery, sticky-less gum with a comb with very little fuss. Voila. Problem solved.

In conclusion, I support researching a problem on the internet to find a solution.