ALTERNATIVES Xanga, up and running after glitches needing maintenance. Did I go crazy while Xanga was down? Well, I did check every once in a while to discover what might be happening. I woke up to no Xanga subscriptions in my email. I decided to check into my site, studied the rings and noticed things seemed not to be updating right. I experimented a little, added some links here and there. Things seemed working okay. I saved my changes, played a little more, did a refresh and received a message the site was doing maintenance. Later, I tried and got nothing, Xanga had disappeared from the face of the Internet. I had faith they would be back by morning and yes they were. Now, if it had been BlogSpot … believe me, those guys need to take lessons from Xanga. What do I do as an alternative on a no Xanga day? I play in Outlook express and build future entries. Like this one. Minor changes are made in the site editor, if needed, when I load it up. A good friend suggested we diet, low glycemic, together. I’ve been doing some researching and found a site I like with a lot of info on how and what the diet is. See that site, CLICK HERE. If you want to jump right to the diet info CLICK HERE. The site impressed me, easy to navigate with understandable info and without trying to push you into a purchase. A really nice free diet download listing tons of info on food, see it HERE. Speaking of Internet Purchase, A lot of my movies come from Amazon.com. For the first time I received something needing returned, a movie set of three disks, two of which were floating loose in the set. In their confirmation email for my order they have listed a help link. I clicked on it, landed on a page where I chose how I wanted to correspond with them, I chose telephone, almost faster than I gave the option my telephone was ringing. I spoke with a person, telling her what the problem was, she was very apologetic per the problem and directed me to log in and follow the return link while she held on. From that page, I printed out a return label that included paid postage then received another email from Amazon containing what had just been done. I did this on Friday and received my replacement movies today. Everything in the package looks good. I am impressed with Amazon.com service, big time. Another Internet Purchase complaint: John and I are upset with Dell Computers and their service. I’m worn out with the idiots though the girl who tried to help us was very nice except she and everyone else I spoke with had semi thick accents from India, I think, making it difficult to converse. Why is that? To make it short, our $1000.00 monitor has an intermittent. When it’s completely down, we want it fixed. Dell will fix what is in warrantee but anything out of warrantee they seem to have their heads in holes thinking I will just re-spend another $1000.00 instead of wanting it fixed. We were directed to call a company they work with for some repairs. We called and they don’t fix flat screen monitors which ours is. Big Surprise to Dell!! Anyway, Dell “LIVES IN A THROW AWAY WORLD” and I DON’T. The best they would finally do was offer us a coupon for $100.00 on our next monitor purchase. John told them to forget it. As much as I love my computer and monitor which is working well at this moment, Dell may have lost themselves a good customer. We’ve spent some big bucks with them. Remember our Military I’m in a mood of some kind. I blame most of it on listening to the news. Time for more Harry Potter. I am in book six again and waiting for 7 and movie 5. Halie and Eden went to see the traveling Knight Bus yesterday in Washington D.C. Halie called on her cellphone and said there was no shrunken head hanging in the front of the bus. So much for details they should have paid attention to. That shrunken head made some of those scenes and would have been very simple and minor expense to have included. With all the money they spent on the replication and the hype would a little more for a shrunken head have hurt them for the power of the effect. If I / you had designed the replica, would we have hung the shrunken head? This image perks me up a little. It’s calming. Eden is packing. She leaves for the student leadership conference in New York City on Friday, tomorrow morning. Planes and birds aren’t the only things that fly. Time runs at a much faster clip. Have a great weekend.
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This image perks me up a little. It’s calming.Eden is packing. She leaves for the student leadership conference in New York City on Friday, tomorrow morning. Planes and birds aren’t the only things that fly. Time runs at a much faster clip.Have a great weekend.
Comments (23)
Think I needed a Xanga rest. Well I know I need some kind of rest!
Hope Eden has a wondrous time. The world’s greatest city! I never buy Dell, haven’t since 1999. Terrible customer service, plus Michael Dell is one greedy rich guy, only donates money in his hometown so he gets a direct benefit. All those schools spending a fortune on his company and he won’t give a dime back.
As much as I like my Dell computer, I have to agree with you about the frustration of talking to their “customer service” people. It was especially bad for me when I got my first computer a few years ago, because I had the language barrier of the accented English which I could barely understand, and the barrier of computer-speak, which I was unfamilar with at the time. Very frustrating. I have heard a LOT of people complain about this!
I started my computing life years ago (literally) with an Amstrad 9512 PCW. In those days it was really excellent but its downfall was the fact that it had a CPM Operating System just at the time that Bill Gates produced DOS and then Windows 3 and 3.1. I then upgraded to Dell and bought a 386DX running windows 3.1. I liked it, but in those days Dell did not send you to the other ends of the earth for help. This was upgraded eventually to another Dell running Window 95. I had no complaints at that time with Dell at all, this machine was a Pentium 2. Later Upgraded to 500mhz Pentium 3 running windows 98 second edition and then ME. Then I noticed that I was sent to foreign climes for help and this I did not like. I then bought a Mesh, made in Nottingham UK. I have had no trouble with Mesh. Unfortunately I lost the original Mother Board when a local IT Firm who I had asked to change the Fan decided to ram a screw driver through the Processor! To their credit they gave me a new Mother Board which I later found out was a cheap variety and not the one that Mesh had installed. So I have decided to wait until September when I shall upgrade again to another Mesh. This machine has stood me well for five years and their help line takes me to Nottingham where they are made. In fairness to Dell I still have the last Dell I bought and it serves my Grandchildren when they are here.
Life without Xanga – now there’s a nasty thought. I missed it on Wednesday evening so played solitaire instead.
Marie
Oh, thank you thank you for your comments. We did have the river where I grew up, but it is such an intense current there swimming would’ve been suicidal. And the neighborhood had no yards, no parks. We had to climb way up the hill just to get to a dirt field for football. It only got hot on a few occasions, but when it did you could only hope some adult would take you out of the city. And the Trade Center. Well, yes. I came to New York as it was topping out, and it was incredibly special to me and all my friends. I always said that no building I’ve seen reflected light in more ways. It was a stunningly wonderful bit of urban sculpture. And the office floors, with their windows all round and no columns, were incredible places as well. Plus, if you were in them, they moved so dramatically in the wind. They seemed alive in amazing ways.
RYC:
Dance? You know what I mean when I say dance…
God, the most beautiful thing in a marriage is to dance.
Especially after a crisis
I have the grace of years of torment, have let it go and still can dance…
Oh my style and rhythm…
To be debonair and not show it is a crime.
If I do not put those shoes on and shine them, when they are real, and exsis,
Means they were never any good to me at all
Thank you for the diet site. It isn’t even how much super-refined sugar is in something. It’s that it’s there at all. We just were not designed to handle it. My mother has wrecked her metabolism with sugar and is now a type II diabetic. Insulin resistance scares me. I am not diabetic but am overweight. AND….don’t listen to the news first thing in the morning. It is never good. I get daily meditations and things in my emails, and email is the first thing I hit in the am with my coffee. I especially like the edgar cayce reading snippets. They are amazingly insightful and transcendent. If you’re interested you can go here. Or I can arrange to automatically forward you a copy. In a moment of stupidity I paid $50 for a year membership and don’t make use of it at all. Wow, sorry for blabbing so much.
RYC: Thank you so much for your support. I will keep your wonderful advice in mind.
It’s been so long since they’ve had major issues. I would miss xanga if it were gone.
ryc: yes, echoes, matching tales? similar women a decade apart? I’m a slow learner. But I try not to regret too much. Take what I can, at least at distant retrospect. I do have this theory about males and love: In terms of evolutionary development, woman had a thousand reasons to want t keep a male around, but the only thing getting a male to want to stay – was love. Men have been trained to hide this, and deny it, but I think it is there none-the-less.
Thanks for answering my question. I was rather sure it was someone I knew, but too lazy to search. ha. I enjoyed reading your blog. I have to admit, I need to keep up better. Cyn
Hmmm… it seems I forgot to upload the pics from the Knight Bus. I’ll have to dig around to see if Eden took them off her disk.
What’s the new background? I can’t tell.
Lovely new background here,..kiddo! As to Xanga,..I think that it needed a rest!
Just stopped by 2 say hi and I’m thinking of you. Hug and God Bless!
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mommy likes hewlett packard and bought the compusa warranty and they honor it. it’s worth it. unless you are only spending a few hundred on a system.
ryc: oh yeah, we need to laugh…
Hi Becca!
Just wanted to tell you Thanks! again for all your help. You never fail to lend a quick hand to help people, and sometimes folks forget to say thank you…….I don’t want to be one of those! I want you to know how much I appreciate you! You have always meant a lot to me, my friend.
Hugs
Ethel
Thanks for the diet site. I’m studying. I have been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome.
re: your comment at Leonidas. It is not free, but it would essentially be free for Americans. As I said at Leonidas, the US government ALONE now spends 25% more per capita for health care than France or Germany spend to fund their entire systems. That means that if the US adopted the French system today, ALL private and business health care costs could disappear, all US medical schools could be free, and US government spending would go down!
That is how bad the US health care system has become.
Of course they could save much more by adopting the Canadian or UK systems. Those systems spend about 1/2 per person what France does. But France is the “gold standard” – the best medicine in the world – why would you choose to do anything else?
I have to say, Dell choosing to use people from bangladesh to answer their phones was a big mistake.. I think when you have the world already buying millions of machines from you, it would be better to not try to cut costs on the one thing that matters.
The customer..
They’ll learn
re your comment at Eshies:
lol. We always held the dances in our barns. Lots of fun there, I remember. And my German Uncle (the one with shell shock from the war) always wanted to dance the Polka with me! lol. Man, was I ever out of breath as he whirled us around the floor. He liked kicking those heels up high. hehe.
Ethel/Eshie
Have a great 4th of July God Bless (((Hugs )))
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