others' hells

kakubeki

02:03 am - How Tweet It Is

• 05:42 En route CT with a pantload of ISO 9001

kakubeki

02:04 am - How Tweet It Is

• 13:39 would like to build a railgun. Anyone in?

mackatlaw

05:55 pm - Looking for Magic Tech Support

No, not support of magical technology, though that would be cool too.  What I need is a magic answer to my problem (well, one of many problems, but who's counting?).  I have a website ready to upload.  I didn't design it (a prior legal associate did), but I updated the email addresses by editing the html.  However, the local company, Charter, that hosts our Internet had a lousy website interface.  It wouldn't accept FTP, demanded you use its internal file manager (which uploaded one file at a time), and even when I did the one file at a time method, still wouldn't display my index page.  I've been on tech support about 5 times, with 5 different tickets, from 30-45 minutes at a go.  Useless.  So I've cancelled the webspace with Charter.

Can you suggest a place to host our company site?  I registered it at godaddy.com and everything.  I want the name servers to point to that name, so I don't want (for example),something.tripod.com .  I even know how to FTP from my computer and how to change the name servers, if the host site is not completely asinine.  We can pay up to $20 a month (I think that's reasonable), so that's not a problem.  I would like to put this website up in hopes of bringing some business in. Even if it only brought one or two cases a year, that would be great.

Any ideas?

(CC'ed from a letter to kaolinfire, one of my favorite consultants.  I thought I would appeal to the general pool of my friends, as well.) 

EDIT: Kaolin has offered me a deal using space on one of his servers for a nominal fee, so I'm going with that. kareila  had another good suggestion about where to host, but I want to give one of my friends the business.  :)

kakubeki

02:03 am - How Tweet It Is

• 06:57 Finished with Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Niven bit.ly/82xVN6
• 06:59 I'm #reading Man-Kzin Wars 12 by Larry Niven - bit.ly/6ir5n3
• 07:00 Starting Man-Kzin Wars 12. Been looking forward to this one for a while. bit.ly/6nhZ9m
• 11:33 I'm #reading The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan - bit.ly/5hnfPw
• 11:35 On page 30 of 783 of The Gathering Storm. Another after a long wait - these books are a religion. bit.ly/8G9TCy
• 18:58 some snow clean-up, a leetle snowshoeing - unburdened myself of some paperverkz, laundy, some reading - a very good weekend.

kakubeki

02:03 am - How Tweet It Is

• 18:47 At a Muurderr Mystery dinner at The Middle in Franklin, NH. WHO DUNNIT!!! myloc.me/2xoh8

kakubeki

02:02 am - How Tweet It Is

• 10:48 Installing new laser printer/multipage scanner - cross yer fingers cuz I needs it to work.
• 18:59 So, if you go to someone elses house to change into your dress clothes before going out on the town - don't forget yer shoes, dumbass!
• 00:19 Happy New Year. :o) myloc.me/2weDK

buffysquirrel

10:01 am - keeping up with the twits

• 13:55 Damn cats have stolen my hair ties. Again!!! #
• 16:37 twitpic.com/vw099 - Merry Easter! #

mackatlaw

01:17 am - Brainstorming for "The Survival of Species"

I've dug out my False Gods novel background binder and plan to work through an outline revision.  Then I may start writing, and if all goes well, see if I can finish the novel.  I need to cut minor characters, unnecessary scenes, tighten up the plot, and generally keep the story epic while still making it fit inside one book, 400-500 pages.  I'm also  working on my Survival of Species action-adventure science fiction book outline while I'm in the general mood, though I expect it'll be some time before I start doing more than that.  I have hundreds of pages of background on it and only a few pages of written copy, but I know there' s a viable story in there.  With that said, allow me to present some research notes I typed up while talking with Luke, or grosely_clerx  as he is also known (first name used with permission).

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Luke, you too busy to bs for a minute?

 me:  Interesting.  the TEN virus is similar, but it rewrites the RNA instead at first (much easier and flexible than rewriting DNA).  You either become extremely healthy with psychic powers, altered metabolic rates (healing, strength), or you die a horrible death. polymerase RNA was another catchphrase. Granted, my technobabble may need work on the RNA/DNA stuff, but that was the general idea. We were looking for a bio weapon defense at the end of WWII.  We got this by mistake.

 me:  Oh, I'm stopping myself before I insist you read some pages.

 me:  PS can I fake an LJ post by just quoting an edited version of this?

lazy, man, lazy.
Luke: Sure.
Me: Great.

kakubeki

02:03 am - How Tweet It Is

• 06:00 Waiting ina looong security line MSP... and. Waitimg.
• 09:53 DTW --> MHT DC9-40. Headin' home. myloc.me/2tvqj
• 11:39 Arrived MHT
• 21:27 I'm #reading Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Niven - bit.ly/4ydXLs
• 21:28 On page 298 of 352 of Destroyer of Worlds. already gave it five stars. enough said. bit.ly/7muK4W

mackatlaw

02:45 pm - Domestic Relations Court is getting more and more dangerous

Jefferson County Judge arms herself amid safety fears.

"Jefferson County Domestic Relations Judge Suzanne Childers was hearing a child support case a few weeks ago when she became afraid for two female attorneys in the courtroom and set off her panic device.  It took 40 minutes before anyone arrived in response to her call, Childers said.  That response time worries the judge, who was already concerned about security cutbacks at her courthouse. She had become so worried, in fact, that this fall she got qualified to bring a gun to court."

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I don't usually link and run, but here's a picture of Judge Suzanne Childers with a gun on her desk.  She keeps pepper spray by her gavel, too.  Domestic Relations Court (which governs divorces) is getting more dangerous as we have fewer deputies.  I was in Judge Childers' courtroom recently and remember her complaining about how long it took to get to get a sheriff deputy to transfer a prisoner from the jail for a hearing.  With all the layoffs, it's not surprising she decided to get a gun.  Folks can get upset when it comes to a divorce, child support hearing, or child custody matter.  I don't blame her a bit, though it's a shame we can't afford better security.  I bet no one will be insulting her in the near future...

kakubeki

02:03 am - How Tweet It Is

• 12:06 day 2 of an ISO 9001:2000/2008 gap assessment in Minnesootah. Feeling marginally better, but sleep would be real nice.
• 16:29 Just saw Easter decorations for sale - wants to break stuff...
• 18:14 ...food or no food?

buffysquirrel

10:00 am - keeping up with the twits

• 22:33 *cringe* oh dear the new BBC adap of Triffids was shite. *whimper* #

kakubeki

02:03 am - How Tweet It Is

• 04:07 Off to the aeroport!
• 05:34 On plane MHT --> MSP myloc.me/2pOto
• 07:41 A little change of anes in DTW. myloc.me/2pYR4
• 08:15 So far new carry-on is working very well (Tumi Vapor). Regional jet it was too big for bin but fit under seat & on this 757-300, no worries.
• 11:27 Wheels on tarmac MSP myloc.me/2qlZv
• 12:07 thinks he has a little cold. Start up the teeny tiny record players...

mackatlaw

11:44 pm - Still looking for that Thunder Road

I went on a date tonight after work.  I  can't tell if I'll get a second date, but unlike my last date, I actually do want one.  She was cute, 25, and a third-year medical student at UAB.  I felt some attraction, and we chatted and had a good conversation for about 45 minutes over coffee at O'Henry's in Homewood. We met on an online dating site (www.okcupid.com) and proceeded to meet fairly rapidly, using the site as an introduction to meet in person instead of being lengthy pen-pals, which I approve of as a method.  However, she left without either giving me her last name or her phone number (she didn't offer and I felt a little weird about asking).  I did ask about her New Year's Eve plans and invited her to come to my friend Jennifer's house and play games with us (not my best idea but the best I had on the spot).  She said she needed to babysit some children to earn some money, instead.  I also mentioned a party with contra dancing, which she'd had a lesson in, but she wasn't interested in going to the YWCA.   I said I would write her, and that she'd be free to gracefully decline. She said not to worry, she was very blunt.

So on the whole, I would say I had a good time, but estimate my chances with her are not great.  I'll write her anyway as soon as I can think of somewhere to invite her to, and see what happens.  I don't want to hear a "why I'm not right for her"; I just want to know if she's interested (though I think she would have given me her number if she was).

*Thunder Road is a song by Bruce Springsteen and one of my favorites.

My New Year's Eve plans start with going to visit my friend Kareila and her family to have a game night.  I'm planning to bring a bottle of Alabama muscadine wine so we can have a glass to celebrate the New Year.  They usually go to bed fairly early by my standards, so I might go somewhere else afterwards.  If I have the energy, which is an unknown factor, I'll either go to the contra dance party or to my friend Karyn's house, who is having her husband's band play to ring in the New Year.  I don't absolutely need to be out to celebrate the actual passing of the old year at midnight.  It might be nice to be in early, so I'll just see how I feel.

Next:  More on my Christmas, promise.  And I've got an idea about my root canal problem -- I'm going to contact the UAB School of Dentistry when it reopens next Monday and try to get an appointment.  Students do work there under the supervision of experienced doctors for a fraction of the cost a private doctor would charge.  My Aunt Brenda went once decades ago, and I know a couple of other people who have gone recently and had positive results.  The root canal might take longer than somewhere else, because it's a learning environment, but I can't afford to be picky at the moment.  I still have to go earn some more money for it, mind you, but appointments might be booked up in advance for a while.

wrathchylde

11:11 pm - grrrrr

trying to link all my blogs up. I'm sure this is probably really simple, but it's driving me nuts!

wrathchylde

08:52 pm - Photo I liked

buffysquirrel

10:00 am - keeping up with the twits

• 13:14 twitpic.com/v4vfm - Bast #
• 00:32 Merry Easter Bunny, everyone! #