Oh, I don't know; probably just seemed more difficult to construct a website
(more so than the only other site I've created, which was on a network and
probably more user friendly in some ways). Also, don't see a way to blog or
to host the forums they mention. Thought these might be like message
boards, like I was able to set up on this other one, which can't be used for
some of the purposes I want as it has a specific purpose.
If I had a kid, I would have left them fool with all of this while I got
some winks. Or so I would like to believe.
Randall
----- Original Message -----
From: "gerald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Printing pains and computer-induced sleep disorder
(CISD)
what your problem with godaddy? if you can't figure out how to get them
to take your money, what is your problem? If you can't get there in 30
min, have your kid do it. you say they are bad, but what is wrong with
them?
At 08:15 PM 10/6/2007, you wrote:
Well, was up more than half the night trying to negotiate GoDaddy, for
getting first Domain and also website, wordtracker sites for websites, and
finally, fiddling with trying to print out business cards on old HP
LaserJet printer (bought in 94, still kicking!). Why would a sane person
do all this? Well, in order to have business cards to take for networking
purposes to the Greenfestival in D.C. today and tomorrow. And, of course,
if one is going to update business cards (old ones are so old they don't
even have email address) then, of course, one would like to have their
blog and website on them, which, of course, means first getting the blog
up (sort of did that a few days ago) and a website up and domain name
registered, right? And, of course, having learned, from recent seminars
on websites & business (including one at CPUG meeting a month ago) about
the importance of "key words," certainly have to fool around with these
key word sites, right?
And, just when you think you've figured out a solution for how to get some
business cards together on very short notice (without spending much moola)
by learning how to print them yourself, of course the printer or something
or many things involved decide not to cooperate, and even play a bad joke,
by making it almost appear at one point that its actually working. But,
alas, on more careful inspection, the wording on the cards is all off,
enough to ruin the whole deal, like having your phone number show up on
another card. Curiously, does work with plain paper or printing one card
at time, but printing 10 at a time on the cardstock just leads to these
fatal misalignments.
So, this far in to my sad tale (or rant, take your pick), here's maybe my
main question: Any ideas WHY the printer gods are punishing me thus,
however subtly? Could it be an outdated printer driver? Tried to update
it, at the end of all of this, but can't even tell if this actually
occurred.
But I digress from the kicker to this tale of self-inflicted woe....As a
result of being up half the night fiddling with all of this and a good
part of the remainder of the night just not being able to sleep (so what
the hell, get up at 5, after maybe 2 hrs sleep, and fiddle some more,
right?!), I ended up blowing off the Greenfestival entirely, which was the
very impetus for all this last minute urgency and scrambling! So much for
the best laid plans of a misguided man! But, as they say, there's always
tomorrow, and maybe by then I'll have a card or two, say, to hand to Ralph
Nader after his closing talk. And at least I like irony.
Where's Nader been, anyway, when it comes to all the problems with high
tech so many of us seem to be increasingly having (not even counting this
experience as part of that)? Maybe he'll surprise and announce that he's
joining the fray we call Presidential elections. At least it would add
some real entertainment, to go along with a weekend full of green. In
fact, Nader once ran as a "Green," now he's speaking to the Greenies; no
doubt about the problems caused by all those who are consumed by "green"
of another sort. And, while being "green" when it comes to things like
computers and printing cards or creating websites is not generally a
desirable thing to be, when it comes to becoming the world's most
consequential person, being "green" doesn't seem to be all that bad a
thing; maybe even a good thing, actually, by some accounts. But, of
course, "green" or not, anyone wanting to seriously play the Presidential
game sure needs a lot of the green stuff. Agreed?
There will be, as they say, a "second chance" tomorrow - so long as I
don't repeat the whole thing tonight, toiling into the wee hours again,
trying to print cards that line up right, figure out how to do this or
that in setting up a website, figuring out what happened to GoDaddy's
wonderful-sounding promises of free blogging, etc.
So going to have to do the hardest thing of all related to computers (at
least for me) - turn the damn thing off and keep it off at some reasonable
hour!! :) Why, oh why, can't someone invent a timed lock for a computer,
like a bank lock, or a lock which someone at a remote location has control
over? We don't ask alcoholics to hang around in bars for hours a day,
then also be their own bartenders or bouncers, do we?!
As far as "Go Daddy," so far my experience with them has been more like,
"Yo, Your Mamma!" Hopefully, this will just be a bad, passing first
impression someday. You go, daddy; I'm either going to sleep or going to
go bananas. Now maybe if I can crash as easily tonight as many computers
seem so able to do!
Randy
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