The Elysian Fields

I made some changes to cross-posting on DreamWidth and Facebook posting stuff on LiveJournal.

If you're on Facebook and you can see this as a status that was posted on LiveJournal, when it is, in fact, cross-posted to LiveJournal from DreamWidth, then I have succeeded. If not, you'll never know, will you?

=)

Very intermittent Thursday and Friday, to completely mostly dead yesterday.

Today I went in and routed out the router, and messed around with wires and plugs and thingies - and... I think it might just be a bad cable, or a lose connection.

Oy.

So, back up and running?

Maybe...

I'll no longer be using UFie mail, as it's host - everyone.net - wants to slap a cookie down that my spyware protection feels is a wee bit too greedy. Although I've been on that the longest out of all of the web mail sites that I'm *still* on, I agree. Bad cookie!

I've also noticed an extreme slowdown on MySpace, which regularly serves up a half-dozen rotten cookies just for logging in. I think the site is a bit miffed that it can no longer do so.

I've actually got a two-pronged approach to dealing with it, and the later piece is what shut of the ufie.org email - first off, Ad-Aware (and a few other tools) isolates and then removes the evil-doers. Before I actually let it get rid of those critical cookies, I look through and check the address from whence they came. The root of the address - the blah dot com or blip dot net or whathaveyou dot wot - gets added to the list of restricted sites in tehIntarwebExploder. The security for the restricted sites is set to a higher level than high, with everything disabled, hamstrung, and so forth - in other words, the "Just Say No" school of thought.