Tag: Technical Difficulties
Nick’s Passing
Probably my oldest friend that I am still in regular contact with is J, famous to some as the bumbling bartender on ROX. I’m on a first-name basis with his family, though I haven’t seen much of them lately. I almost feel like they are a second set of distant relatives. So it was particularly […]
Read More → Nick’s PassingComments
If you tried to leave a comment here in the last 24 hours you probably got an error message, but I just fixed that problem — I think.
Read More → CommentsLocked Out
I haven’t posted for a few days because of weird technical problems. I wasn’t able to login from home over the weekend, so I figured I’d try from the office when I got back to work. But Monday was a wash, with the entire campus cut off from the internet. Today, I was finally able […]
Read More → Locked OutDisconnected, Part III: Attack of the Spambots
After a week of delays and two whole days wasted on tech support calls, I was finally online. I was ready to write a damning invective criticizing Apple and an encomium praising the Computer Shoppe. I pointed my browser to my blog, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a notice: Your account […]
Read More → Disconnected, Part III: Attack of the SpambotsDisconnected, Part II
When last we left our story, we were at something of an impasse. I couldn’t connect my trusty iMac to the internet. Cox said it was Apple’s problem. Apple said it was a conflict with Cox’s modem. At Todd Kleinke’s excellent recommendation, I took my poor little iMac to the University Saturday morning and plugged […]
Read More → Disconnected, Part II