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It Is All Blue

c01413989It is bound to happen. Every computer has it’s death. But why O why must it be mine – again 🙁

I stubbornly refuse to give into the funk that is trying to suck me down the rabbit hole into the death star comprised of failed computer parts. The blue screen I suppose the color selection fits.

Perhaps I should call upon the borg? Oh ye wrong alternate sci fi world emmm

Yes I have the laptop with its tiny little keys and wireless access that is as reliable as an old tele with rabbit ears and tin foil.

Tonight my friends and I are going to go and hunt down hard drives with the hope that the recovery discs I made a few years ago will actually work. Seems HP sucks with this and the chance of success is fifty fifty. If I buy the discs I and the recovery discs dont work I am screwed. Cause the cheapest cpu only is more money than I have left. AUGH

Laptops should have bigger keys. Mistake one: I only have on the fly backup for my photos. So all else is toast,

Well wish me luck cause this laptop crap is not gonna work for long as my fingers are either too big or its keyboard is way to small.  I was using a news reader in firefox so I have to go hunt down all the blog rss addys again LOL LOL

I  so know better than to not back up the whole hard drive oh wells I get to have a clean start if all go well and the recovery discs work. If not the crashing sound you hear is the computer as it hits the ground after being tossed out the window along with the bath water.

Social Confusion ROCKS!

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Social networking sites are great to catch-up with friends, share photographs, music and links but it seems to be a great time suck.  I do not even blog everyday anymore so why am I joining all these sites?

First out of the gate that leads to confusion is setting up each one. Sounds easy and it should be. After all I am not a complete dummy although sometimes I wonder. I sometimes think that I wake up each day with way less brain power than the day before.

How many networks can one person join? How many different identities can I  manage before I mess up and cross the line between my real life and my Internet one?  What I mean is, I have places where I converse with people I know in person and site where I hold back some info.  I really do not want certain people goggling my name and ending up here – like my parents for example.  It is not that I spend a lot of effort trying to hide my identity but . …

Then there is the problem of making sure that the setting in each social network site are set up so I do not end up having double of triple updates.  Augh – my pea brain is smoking on that one – smell the smoke?

I shudder to think how crazy all this would get if I tried to join every network that others use. So for right now I am keeping it with Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, and my blog here. I do use blip to listen to the tunes and library thing where I am trying to make a list of all my books.

The distinction between blogging and social networking is going to be hard to maintain in future I think. With blog posts forwarded to different social sites and comments from social site showing up on blogs – yikes! Technology is designed to condense things.   Many articles I have read and personal friends relay of dislike of the internet connection to share believing that it is the ruin of interpersonal communication.

It is  important to stay  connected to people on a person level  rather than just through technology. Human contact is wonderful!  I just do not find myself getting out as much.  Social isolation is not a good thing eh?  Acquaintances have start to shy away when  they do not understand why I am not up for outings at a drop of the hat anymore. There are days fatigue stops me cold.  Then there are other things too (uh huh the mother nature calls). Who wants to hang out with someone  whose main goal while site seeing is the location of all the restrooms. On hot days I flounder.  Some days formulating coherent conversation is near impossible for me.

Multiple sclerosis has left me in the dirt socially.  Oh wells, that is where blogs and social sites ROCK for me.

Remind Me to Never Do That Again

traneYeah the blog is back. Moving hosts is a PITA – big time LOL. I read all the info followed all the instructions and waited till the domain switched over . … I must say that my new host has much better service and help than the old. So I am glad I changed.

That said there is nothing more frustrating  than the nasty little blank white page when things go wonky. I must confess that I have no idea what exactly was wrong but I started over again with a fresh wordpress install, re-uploaded all the plugins and them files and it came back – whew.

The repair/installers are here putting in the new heater/air blower, A/C, and all the mandatory upgrades to bring the stupid stuff to code. Hopefully when the heat goes up next week I will be basking in total A/C comfort. I could have bought a car for what this is costing.

Well more laters, Catfish and Annie are locked in separate bedrooms and from the sound of it all you would think someone was torturing them!

Fussy Feed Fest

apps_errorI am sure you have noticed a new theme around here. Between SBcee/YaWHOOO web hosting not allow writing to the htacess file and the last them having no support for anything built into it, I decided to change.

I should have known better, really, everytime I do this it ends up with me scratching my head and going ugh???

So far the theme itself is working but the rss feed is not doing it’s thing. The main post rss feed here is showing the big red “X”. I have read that it just may do that until I write a new post. Not exactly what I was planning on doing right now. I want to play with the theme a little.

I still am thinking of moving the domain to a different provider that allows a tad more control over things that SBcee/YaWHOOO peeps. Ever since they made us change over to the new package ithas been interesting to say the least. This site can not even use the pretty peramlinks cuase they won’t allow writing to the htacess. The positive thing is I have not been hac ke d lately – oh please not an invitation to do so.

So, hope you are interested in following this blog and that your rss reader feed works – augh!