Category Archives: Site building

DSL problems

Posting will be minimal, if any, for a while. My DSL modem is on the fritz. AT&T has promised to come Monday and check the line, if not necessarily replace the modem. The thing’s warranty is out, and it seems to be the major difficulty, so I hope they replace it.

If not, I may consider switching ISPs, though that would be a major hassle and AT&T has provided good service up to now. We think a thunderstorm a couple of weeks ago, which knocked out the landline service (which contains the DSL connection) may have been the culprit here. The techs said the line was the victim of a power surge. We were thinking about having the landline disconnected anyhow. We use the cell phones most of the time.

ADDENDUM: Yes, we were disappointed by last night’s Texas loss to Texas Tech. But Tech, a longtime in-state rival, played a great game and deserves to be No. 1, even if the BCS computers don’t agree. The Horns also beat themselves, with too many dropped passes (and one almost-interception), costly penalties, an OL that couldn’t stop Tech’s D, etc. Hope Texas stays in the top five. They’ll be back.

Blogrolling hacked

Which means that my blogroll, the list of links to other blogs I like to read, has vanished. It began last night and has lasted all day. Some say there was some sort of Muslim banner affixed to Blogrolling’s homepage for a while, but now all I see is an "unable to connect page" from the browser. Googling the situation shows it has happened before to these folks, as far back as 2003, for instance. Too bad. It was a nice service. I hope they can restore it. Otherwise I shall have to really learn how to work Movable Type and make a permanent one for myself. Arrrgh.

UPDATE:  It’s back. Thank goodness. Stout fellows, those blogrolling guys.

Sitemeter, yech

I see I’m not the only one who dislikes the new Sitemeter. It’s much harder to figure out than the old version, which I was used to digesting at a glance. No more.

UPDATE:  Apparently overwhelmed with unhappy customers, they "rolled back" to the original. Yes!

What’s up with Explorer 7?

First it was FireFox freezing all the time. So I switched to IE7. Now it’s refusing to load some pages, including my own here, throwing up "abort" messages. LGF says it’s somehow related to Sitemeter. Swell. Well, there’s always Safari, I guess. Or Opera, if push comes to shove. Could we please go back to Web 1.0? At least it worked, most of the time.

UPDATE:  Seems to be fixed. Except for visits to Sitemeter, itself.

Referrals

A selection of search engine requests that bring some folks here:

Cow appreciation day Always glad to oblige.

How to extend battery leads for electric trolling motor Trust me, you really don’t want to do that.

He influenced millions beyond his time He did, too. As opposed to some about whom this is said.

Texas Longhorn scroll saw pattern I could use one of those.

Honda single overhead cam exploded view This is something I definitely hope to avoid.

Alexander Fullerton The Gate Crashers One great book I heartily recommend.

Juridiction trasnslator english to arabic open porn free software Uh, uh, not here. Next door, maybe.

Which city in Texas is the first word that was ever spoken on the moon ? Hint, it starts with H and it’s not Hereford.

Inspired by Dustbury.

More problems

If you only see one or two posts, try clicking on the Recent Posts, in the right column, to view the others. For some reason the others are not appearing on the main page. I’m working on it. I’ve been here before, but I hesitate to start calling the techs, until I’ve had time to explore it a little.

Click like the Web depends on it

It might, in terms of old media’s successful migration to the Internet, and new media’s survival. So click on the ads, the ones some popular software is designed to squelch, and buy something now and then. Because, for the most part, paid subscriptions don’t work, and so without the ads paying the way, poof, no more Web media.

Via Instapundit