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August 17th, 2009 by Echos

Down With Blogger.com

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So unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few hours, or you’re not a power-dropper such as myself, you’ve noticed this error when attempting to drop EntreCards on Google-powered websites:

“We’re sorry…

… but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.”

These aren’t limited to Blogspot.com sites. Any site powered by Blogger.com is giving this error. Not only is this a pain for people who are dropping cards, it’s unfair to the webmasters of those sites. I cannot visit to comment or drop cards on your site. Potential visitors to my site via the EC ads I have placed cannot find my ad. This is happening to sites that have their own domain name and are on a server other than google.

I thought waiting it out a few minutes would fix the error. So I went ahead and loaded the dishwasher. I’m going to have to do two loads, but that’s expected. I came back. That screen cap up there is what the result of that was.

It seems I’m going to have to wait 24 hours before I can visit any Blogspot or Blogger powered website again.

This reminds me that Blogger hasn’t changed much since early 2001 when I permanently left their services: It sucked then and it sucks now.

I urge every Blogger user to move their blogs. If you have your own domain and server, you have absolutely no excuse whatsoever to still be using Blogger.com to update your site. Upgrade to WordPress or MoveableType or even take a risk with GreyMatter. You should have something installed on your server and not be relying on an outside publisher. Seriously. Text pages don’t take up that much space, so if your blog is 90% text posts, and you just have 100 MB of space, then you’re in the clear. If you use Blogspot.com to host your blog, move it to WordPress.com. You can even migrate your entries and comments over there. WordPress is so much better than Blogger. If you need free picture hosting, you can’t get any better than Flickr picture hosting.

Show Blogger that you’re not going to stand for this.

August 16th, 2009 by Echos

What Would You Do?

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I’m going to be doing some major cleaning up of this domain in the coming days. Or weeks. Whatever’s good for me.

Josh is contemplating kicking me off his server. After five years of continuous hosting, he’s letting me go. Hence the reason why I ask for hosting options. But five years–wow–that’s five years longer than I expected he’d host me.

So where do I go from here?

Either I fancy up the index page, to show that I actual use this site, or I stay in hiding and keep to myself while scouring the internet looking for an acceptable host. What would you do?

August 11th, 2009 by Echos

The Lost Post

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My other site is down.

I really can’t do anything about it. I feel as though I’ve done everything right, and it’s not on my end where the problems lie. Oh well. I tried, right? Sometimes I get so sick of this domain scene. It really is spoiled when they don’t work right, or you have to go through an act of congress to get them configured and nothing seems to work.

I have surgery in the morning so I don’t know if I’ll be updating for a while.

Can someone buy or send me this font? I’d love you forever if you could or would. Never mind that you should. =p

Till….whenever. =)

August 7th, 2009 by Echos

Blackmail!

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I have someone trying to black mail me online.

This isn’t something that’s new, not by far, but it’s happening. Someone who reads my journal found both my blogs, and suddenly I’m “all over the internet” and they’ve gotten the idea that my journal is a rip-off of these blogs. Hmm. No. I also think it’s laughable that I am being black mailed by someone who has no idea who they are blackmailing. To put it bluntly, everything in my journal has been published, publicly, in either of these blogs, that are viewed by 6,000 – 8,000 people per week. So making whatever is in my journal public is really going to hurt me. *g* I learned the hard way, a long time ago, that you don’t put your secrets online. You don’t tell the world what you feel in your heart unless you want the world to know it. It’s not like a paper journal that you can carry with you forever and ever and make sure no one else reads it. We have no control who comes to our sites or what agendas they might develop after they visit.

For example, Mr. X may visit my website and fall madly in love with me. He may visit several times per day, though common sense will tell him that I only update once per day, if that often. Mr. X soon decides that from reading what little bit of my posts that I put out here, he’s madly in love with me, I am The One for him, and he wants no other. Alright. Whatever. I can easily block him, but it’s the idea. If this were a paper journal, it would be my own fault for leaving it open where others could get to it.

I hope they blackmail me all they want. I’m sick of being nice to people who are not nice to me. I offered Dreamwidth codes and this is how they pay me back? Bastards. Go for it, though. More power to you when you look like an idiot, huh?

99.9% of what is in my journal is cross posted to my blogs. The exception was the Dreamwidth codes, and that was only because I thought those people would be interested in having them first. I could have just posted them to the DW community and be done with it. Oh well.