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A Massive Test of the System

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?

=)

Current Mood: busy

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Weekend Updatia

First up, for those who don't stay up late or scroll way back through lots of stuff, Episode Six of Monday's Thirteen made it up with nearly two hours of Monday left to spare. And today, when updating, it lost the icon and the subject. I think it might be an issue with the older Safari down here. Anywho.

Saturday, there was volunteering and some work - details posted soon. Sunday was Easter festivities - details posted soon, pictures posted here, here, and here.

For the last month or so connectivity has been iffy and getting progressively worse. Thursday was Almost Dead, Friday was Mostly Dead, Saturday was Buried, and Sunday was Unplugged, until late in the day when I found out what it was. Maybe.

Monday, which gets lumped into the holiday weekend, involved Brandonisms and the installation of a new lawn ornament.

Today will involve some online work for the business that I wanted to do last Friday and much of the same for the household which was also supposed to be done Friday. Oy. It will also involve chainsaws and removal of aforementioned lawn ornament.

Current Mood: annoyed

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computers,
internet

Teh Intarwebs are Back?

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...

Current Mood: tired

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computers,
internet

Like a Yo Yo

So. I'll be lucky if you see this.

Pattern is I'll lose everything before I finish typing the post. And since I have to wake up in a few hours, I'm not staying up any later.

I don't know what's going on, but I think it's actually beyond my ISP - I've been noticing this off-and-on stuff, well, off and on for the last two months, and I know it was causing problems down at the former desk job as well. They use a different ISP. That also agrees with what the network diagnostics say, but I don't like it.

Anyone else in Eastern PA or thereabouts having a helluva time trying to keep an alleged broadband connection up all the time?

Ah well, I'm going to bed anyway, I'll just kick teh intarwebs on the way out of the room...

Current Mood: happy

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No Cookie For You!

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.