My Current Peeves…
I’ve got this stupid button on the side of my Microsoft mouse that I frequently and inadvertently click when reaching for the mouse, causing my browser window to go back to the previous page. Fine, most of the time. But when I’m composing something within my browser-based content management system, clicking Back often ends up losing all the data in my forms. Happens all too often. Like about five minutes ago!
Anyway, back to what I was trying to publish earlier. I tend to lose interest in writing the same thing twice, so I’m not putting the effort or imagination into the telling of the tale this time. Essentially, I’ve been unable to publish a rambling for the last week due to a glitch at AWRegistry, the ICANN registrar in charge of securing and maintaining the domain name I use for the Daily Almanac, this blog content management system, and my email server. All I did was pay for a renewal on my domain name and they propagated old and inaccurate DNS server information, a fact I didn’t even discover until three days had passed! Two more days later the fix I tried was proven to be ineffective because I had followed the instructions given to me by my Internet Service Provider. Oh, silly me! Of course, it took three days to discover THAT didn’t work! Updating the domain’s DNS information to match another domain served up on the same webserver worked wonderfully, but not after three more days. Arrgh!
My Windows XP inoperating system finally gave up yesterday, crashing software left and right — Eudora email data became corrupted, Internet access slowed to a crawl, and the antivirus software seemed to keep giving it hiccups. A full reinstall later, and the few things reinstalled seemed to be working just fine. Every time I do this I tell myself that I will never install anything experimental or intensive in a futile effort to keep the operating system… well… operating. I guess it’s kind of like a New Year’s resolution, full of good intentions but lacking in execution.
Oh, and I just realized that I lost my blogs.html file in that crash, a file I kept on my Windows XP desktop in which I kept all my half-finished ideas, partially written blogs, and basically a temporary thinking space. Ðámn!
Well, they say bad things come in threes. Am I done yet?!
Hmmm, if only you had a second machine or network on which you could store backups….
I had identical problems with It’s Your Domain.com. I rarely delete email, I have email going back 5 years. I never received an expiration alert from It’s Your Domain. I have other domain names with Network Solutions and always get a heads up regarding expiration. I highly reccomend anyone considering doing business with It’s Your Domain, consider another registar.