I have been gifted with a lovely used server which should, hopefully, spare me in future from this ridiculous experience of having the internet squeezed through a tube of toothpaste onto my desktop (please, a blog post should not take five to seven minutes to open. Three-minute Youtubes should not take a half hour to load) but in the meantime it’s all I can do to get my paid posts up and even then the bloody Cable cut out in the middle of one of them. Off to use the public computers tomorrow…
I have also been gifted with a lovely MP3 player…for which my computer refuses the drivers. Luv-lee.
raincoaster 
Endlich …. haben wir ein Bild von der Regen Kuestenfahrer ….
My internet has been so shitty this past week. Unbelievable. Telus SUCKS ass, man. And I have no other options, really.
much sympathy, my new laptop takes about 1/2 hour to boot up, well it feels like it. Best luck on the fantastic new technology that speeds up our lives.
Exactly. Last night I spent four hours “copying” my CDs onto the laptop so I could get them on the MP3 player. Not only will the laptop not run the driver or recognize the player, but the “Copy” function apparently does not work, even though it pretends that it does. Charming. Steve Jobs, why can’t someone give me one of YOUR computers?
GEE is getting, well, gee … less understandable lately. I keep trying different accents to no avail! Anyway, shaw has been pernickity also, but please come out here to do your downloading thing. If mine even hesitates I think it’s a glitch! Also, Youtube says ‘hello raincoaster’ coyly every time I look at it. It’s starting to give me the creeps! I won’t blame you on losing my bookmarks. It has been a positive experience anyway so I would thank you. Still, we should straighten that out. Soon, Lydia
Ah, I guess I forgot to sign out that time I sneaked in your window to use the compy while you were sleeping.
I lost your bookmarks? How did I do that? We’ll talk Thursday, yes?
All women have lovely used servers.
I haven’t used mine in awhile.
I said lovely used servers, not used.
Heh heh heh
Guess who? No cheating.
Checking IPs isn’t cheating. Ha!
I lost a post yesterday that took me all night, I had half a dozen windows open for refs and lost the lot because Explorer stopped working. Now of course you’re going to tell me that that never happens to y’all because you write all your posts in a wordprocessor and save every other word. Well I didn’t and was a bit dis-chuffed I can tell you. Bloody computers!
Not at all. I always write live online and lost an hour’s work last night. I USUALLY lose an hour’s work every day. And the reason? The ads that the sites I was on were running: animations, at least three to a page, film, sound, etc, etc. One site used to be my favorite, and I linked to it every day, but they started running some kind of script that freezes my computer every day, so buh-bye, TheMeatScale! No more links from me.
Have you seen Tom Cruises Scientology vid here? Template for a religious nutter. I like the comments too.
Raincoaster can you please tell me/ direct me to a prof. Raincoaster page, how to remove my blog from Google? They give instructions but it’s beyond my knowledge. Can you help by any chance?
Have I seen it? Philipa, I’ve been ALL OVER Gawker media in the past few days. I’m the one that told them “Nick Denton’s Balls” were #2 on Buzzfeed!
How to remove your blog from Google? Short answer is: you can’t. They give instructions, but I’ve never known them to work without backing from a lawyer. This is what being public vs being private is all about. And once your blog is out in public, setting it to Private will not take those entries down. The best advice I heard was to wait, because after a year or two you do get dropped.
That does NOT apply to other search engines like Yahoo, who keep your stuff seemingly forever.
Oh, well thanks anyway, least I know :-/
I shouda known you’da been all over Tom Cruise (Eew what a horrible thought – he’s less sexy than a garden gnome)
I’m allowed to say I told you so: do not use the most powerful communication device in the history of the world if you have no intention of being held responsible for what you say.
You are indeed but I wasn’t concerned about the content so much as the name. I’m getting some google traffic that must be looking for the magazine but I’ve checked and I’m pretty far down in the google list so I suppose it’s ok.
Oh, THEM! Of course you are, but it’s not an issue. You’re both named after Charles Fort anyway. I would not worry about it; I get a ton of traffic looking for “Narnia porn” but I don’t feel bad about not offering any.
Thanks Raincoaster.
Narnia porn? The mind boggles!