I can haz do over?
May. 5th, 2009 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pbrayI've failed at technology recently, ever since the great PC virus incident was followed by the human virus which I swear lowered my IQ by 20 points for every degree of fever.
Most recent failures? My website http://www.patriciabray.com has spent the last few days pointing to a "Coming soon" page at Goddaddy.com rather than my actual website at http://www.sff.net/people/patriciabray/ due to a failed update to the domain record. After bouncing around with emails to tech support and making updates that each require a 24 hour waiting period to see if they take effect, today I braved the call queue hold time and talked to a live person. Who advised me to try a different nameserver setting and... wait... you guessed it, wait 24 hours to see if that fixed the problem.
Came home to find my cable box was apparently fried when Time Warner tried to send out updates last night, so after mucking around with them on the phone I've now packed up the box and will have to drive it over to the cable store and hand it in for a replacement. I can get basic channels by just plugging in the cable line to my TV but there's no onscreen guide telling me what's on or what's coming up next. I feel like it's 1989!
And with my newfound technical wariness, I'm taking my time setting up my Dreamwidth journal. Still need to add people to the circle (what LJ calls friending) and set up filters, so that will take a few days. As with this entry, anything on Dreamwidth will be crossposted to Livejournal for the immediate future, as I get used to the new space and kicking the tires.
Most recent failures? My website http://www.patriciabray.com has spent the last few days pointing to a "Coming soon" page at Goddaddy.com rather than my actual website at http://www.sff.net/people/patriciabray/ due to a failed update to the domain record. After bouncing around with emails to tech support and making updates that each require a 24 hour waiting period to see if they take effect, today I braved the call queue hold time and talked to a live person. Who advised me to try a different nameserver setting and... wait... you guessed it, wait 24 hours to see if that fixed the problem.
Came home to find my cable box was apparently fried when Time Warner tried to send out updates last night, so after mucking around with them on the phone I've now packed up the box and will have to drive it over to the cable store and hand it in for a replacement. I can get basic channels by just plugging in the cable line to my TV but there's no onscreen guide telling me what's on or what's coming up next. I feel like it's 1989!
And with my newfound technical wariness, I'm taking my time setting up my Dreamwidth journal. Still need to add people to the circle (what LJ calls friending) and set up filters, so that will take a few days. As with this entry, anything on Dreamwidth will be crossposted to Livejournal for the immediate future, as I get used to the new space and kicking the tires.
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Date: 2009-05-06 11:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
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