Still locked out

So various nerd-friends have had a shot at unlocking my email, with no success. Still no idea how or why it happened, but it's been six days now and I can't get in. Now I'm worried that they will delete the account.

So, (sigh) I guess I'll have to set up a new account, which mostly means reconstructing my contact list, which was up to about 1100 people and dates to ten years ago. So it's going to be a bit of a job. Y'all are going to have to help.

If you've sent me an email or received one back in the last five years or so, drop me a note at this address

hwhite at lifesitenews dot com

and I'll (grrrrrr) start putting the public address back together again elsewhere.


(dammitdammitdammit!!)



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Hey! Nerds!

OK nerds, I need help.

I accidentally erased my "cookies" (whatever the hell they are) and now Yahoo won't let me into my email. When I try to log on, it gives me an extra pop-up window (not the regular login one) asking me a security question. When I type the answer in, it won't accept it (even though I know it's the right one) and then it says I'm locked out of my mail for 12 hours. Been around this little carousel twice now, and I can't find anything about it online.

And yes, I've done the whole change-your-password thing. Didn't help.

Hey! Nerds! Over here! Put the video game down!



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Techno-count

As of five 15 pm, Rome time, today I have communicated with people from two continents by:

Facebook message - South Dakota
Facebook text chat - South Dakota, Vancouver
Skype phone calls - London
Skype text message - Rhode Island
Email - Michigan, Toronto, London and Tallinn, Estonia
Cell phone text message - Rome
MSN Messenger - Virginia, Ontario (two locations)
and internet conference calling - all over...

I'm communicated-out. I can't stands no more!

And the landline on my desk gathers dust.

The world has become too weird for me.



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Welcome to the future

I had my first online video phone call tonight, and am feeling very Star Trek-y/Jetsons-y/Space 1999-y. Now where's my robot maid with the hot water bottle and a nice warm milk, so I can get into my flying car and go to work nice and rested tomorrow.

See what I mean?

Twenty minutes ago, the stupid thing wouldn't open even Google.

Now it's ticking along like a house on fire...

Grrrrr...

Experiments

I'm working now from an internet connection that comes from one of those newfangled "stick" things. Got it the other day and am still trying to figure out the best way to use it.

Does anyone else use those things?

Is the signal notoriously bad and unreliable? Or is it just me?

I've noticed that my apartment is something of a dead zone for my mobile and that I can't use the phone at all if I'm sitting on the sofa. Standing by the kitchen sink it's better, but still tends to cut in and out.

Now I'm using the internet stick that, I think, works on the same general principle. It works great sometimes, and others it does a variety of weird things.

When it is apparently running the internet, it will open a window that says something like "Connecting to Tim" (Tim is the local server). Then a few seconds later another window will pop up and say, "Error 680, no dial tone". If you click "redial" it just goes away for a few seconds and then comes back with the same error message. If you click "cancel" it just does the same thing. While the error window is up, you can't use anything else, and it keeps coming up again and again every few seconds. There doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off.

All the while it is messing about with all that, the websites I want to open simply won't go. Other times it is as good as using an ethernet cable high speed connection. But there seems to be no way to control the quality of the signal, like right now, it is so low the Blogger window is telling me "Could not contact Blogger.com. Saving and publishing may fail. Retrying..." In a few seconds the signal will pop back up. It sometimes helps to shut off the connection and start again.

It is quite frustrating.

I am wondering if I should just take it back to the Tim store in Civitavecchia and tell them it doesn't work well enough for me and can I have something that connects to the landline.

Does anyone else use these things? Any idea how to get it to work better?