AZDana

Archive for July, 2008

Just thought I’d share a recent picture. She’s no longer a kitten and has gotten much bigger, but still likes to be with me everywhere I go. Here we are, spending a leisurely Saturday afternoon together:

To Host Gator: I am switching hosting companies asap. I had bragged to others, even encouraged people to sign up with you because of your fantastic uptime. However, your company seems to be totally devoid of any sort of customer service. Here’s why I’m leaving your company:

Apparently, you had a security flaw and had to change everyone’s passwords. How do I know that your fix is any better than what you had before?

When switching everyone’s passwords, you neglected to email all your customers. I am assuming you sent it out with the bill, but customers like me that pay in advance apparently didn’t get the email/bill.

When I went to your site early this morning and initiated a customer chat session, the guy acted like this is a brand new problem, never heard of it and I had to jump through all sorts of hoops to get the password situation sorted out. I guess “Chuck” didn’t think that I’d stop by the HostGator forum and find out that my situation was far from being uncommon, and that a whole bunch of customers were/are as displeased as I am. I probably would have stayed with your company if “Chuck” would have owned up to the situation, apologized and helped me get on my way as soon as possible.

Now, instead of being a happy customer, I am spending the rest of today trying to find a reliable provider.

See ya later, Host Gator!

There I was in the control panel, working away merrily, trying to decide whether or not the magenta/puce color combination would look good on my site. In another window, I clicked to refresh the home page, and that’s when it happened:

Everything was GONE! All that was left was a BIG WHITE page staring back at me!

Thankfully, my daughter was able to figure out what was wrong and restore everything back to the way it was. Apparently, it didn’t like the fact that I was copying and pasting my quote marks ( like img  src= ” ) and wanted me to  type them in instead.

I learned two things yesterday:

1. ALWAYS back up EVERYTHING! Poor MP had to do some sort of manual restore which would’ve been a lot easier if I had been backing up as I went along.
2. I may not be a genius when it comes to websites, but I think I gave birth to one.  If she hadn’t rescued me, then hours of my hard work would be forever lost. Thanks MP!

Speaking of hard work, I better get on it or it will never get done.

Later Taters!

I want a shirt that says, “If life says you can’t align=left, then try align=right”. This is something I recently learned after spending hours trying to make something work. Then I changed it a bit, and it’s working perfectly now.

I am considering offering advertising on this blog. I did pretty good with some of the stuff I had on here before, but I think I am going to try something a bit different for August.

I am thinking of starting a series: Blogs I like. Don’t worry, it will be a rather short series because I think most blogs are just vacuous potholes on the information super highway, including mine. However, there’s a few I do like and I’ll probably be writing about them in the next few days/weeks/months/years/whenever I can.

One of my cousins keeps sending me inaccurate political information. I wish everyone would understand that Barack Obama probably isn’t affiliated with terrorists. They need to stop focusing on that and look at the more important issues, like the fact that his birth certificate is probably a forgery and he may not even be a U.S. citizen. I started reading about it on Glenn Beck’s site, and there’s some pretty convincing evidence online, if you take the time to read it all. It would be so easy for Obama to dispel all this and stop the rumors. He could just send someone in to the State of Hawaii Vital Records with a few bucks and get a fresh certified copy for all the world to see. Yet, he hasn’t for some reason. I’d love to write more about this, but as always, gotta run!

Later Taters

(I actually wrote this post on Saturday, I had forgotten that blog posts can be time shifted. I wonder what else I need to remember? Anyway, here it is:)

If you’re trying to find either in the E.V., you might as well give up the search. I can kind of understand stores no longer selling a particular type of lotion, even if it happens to be the best moisturizer ever invented in the history of mankind. However, I can’t figure out why I can’t find any flat toothpicks anywhere. I found the normal pointy ones, but I wonder if they’ve stopped making the flat version. I don’t need many, just a couple to detail my laptop’s keyboard, so I’m not looking to corner the market. Oh well, maybe they’re all sold out because a lot of moms are making toothpick sculptures with their kids during summer vacation.

I just noticed that the site owner I linked to used marshmallows for the toothpick sculpture. I suppose that’s suitable, but I think that good ol’ white glue is more preferable. Then again, maybe they had the same problems finding white glue that I had finding the Johnson’s lotion.

I woke up this morning in a foul mood. I think it’s because Karen’s been disrupting my sleep again. She loves to sleep on ear or on my neck. I don’t allow her to do it while I’m awake, but she has a tendency to wait till I’m sawing logs, then she creeps up slowly and stealthfully till she’s exactly where she wants to be on my head.  It was adorable when she was a little baby kitty, but I tell you, a full grown gray striped cat is pretty effective at restricting the blood flow in the carotid artery.

I think I’ll be a bit more cheerful after I’ve recovered from this slight case of feline-induced anoxia.

Later Taters!