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June 27, 2006
$@&%^ Computers! %^&%$ Internet!
I'm out on the left coast for some business and a few days off. Before leaving I carefully back everything up, transfer current files to my laptop and test my internet connections to my main computer. Battery back-up - check! Show guy in next-door office how to re-start the system, in case of long-term power outage - check! Make a DVD backup of critical files to take along- check! I'm ready.
So, after travling for a day, I settle into the hotel and fire up the laptop. It works, first test passed. Pick up hotel's Wi-Fi signal and I'm into the internet - that's two down. Use GoToMyPC to connect to my system and voila! I'm in and life is good.
First thing, update the daily news. Found a bunch of good stories, posted the first on to my Radio Userland News Aggregator, clicked post and...........error message. Not only an error message, but all prior news posts have disappeared off my work page. Trying not to panic, I close the program and restart it. No dice. Still not panicking, I post a note to the program's discussion board (their only form of customer service), after all, its the weekend, and I sometimes don't update the news on Saturday or Sunday.
Well, its now Tuesday, and I've tried 3 different fixes that they've recommended. None have worked. They are still trying to figure out this strange, never seen before error. I just want to post news. I fly home tomorrow so that will be another day lost. So, to all of you who post my news feed on your web pages, my deepest apologies. I hope I can resolve this by Thursday. But, if, for some reason I still haven't, please be patient, as I will probably have some serious damage to my computer by then, as well as offended some programmers from Radio. I hate computers and the internet today, but I will get over it.......until the next time.
Posted by joewest at June 27, 2006 11:50 PM