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This is not so good……

This is not so good…… my blog site has disappeared, and loopylou.co.uk is down. And when I tried ftp-ing, I got a message that said “home directory not found” or something to that effect. This doesn’t fill me with confidence. Saw Megs this morning, and she told me that it was there at 7.30pm, but gone by 9pm. I didn’t notice til 11pm, cos I’d been offline making ICQ skins. All my other sites hosted there are fine…. and there’s nothing even remotely offensive on here that would cause it to be shut down. This is so strange! I mean, I guess when I was using free servers and all that I was lucky never to have a site mysteriously deleted (happened to plenty of people I know). Still, I’ve got everything offline and in the blogger archives here, so I can republish with no probs. I just want to know what happened….. and when it’s coming back! I’m going to post this entry in the blogger archive thingy now…… if it ever gets read by anyone but me, then that means the site is back. Making this a pretty damn pointless entry. But I needed a little rant….. *g*

MX Records. Hmm.

Hmmm….. it’s just filtered through to my tiny brain why the applications and other form submissions to the UKBAWC might not be redirecting properly…… it’s the only decent reason I can come up with, anyway. See, on the old server, I had this webmail facility set up through Everyone.net, and to use that, the MX records had to be pointed to them. All well and good, worked fine. However, when I moved the domain to be hosted by Neil, I couldn’t have that any more, so I’ve got a funky control panel setup to make POP3 and Forwarding accounts instead. *But* although the email works fine otherwise, all the form submissions are still going to the webmail account, which (a) shouldn’t theortically be able to receive anything from the domain any more {bored yet?}, and (b) is going to be deleted any day now. What I think is happening is that when I transferred the site, I didn’t think to change the formmail script, so the forms are still using the script on the old server. And since I didn’t have an official account there, nothing was cancelled when I transferred out. Soooooooo….. I think it’s possible that the formmail is still going to the webmail because the internal settings still show the MX records as pointing to it. Is this possible? Happens with DNS records, so why not this? Or am I talking utter cack? Guess I’ll just have to get my own formmail sorted out on the new server, and see if that does the trick. Pants.

Sites and more sites

Now trying to see if I can get the lil Blogvoices thang to tell me how many comments there are. *crosses fingers* Haven’t done my links page yet, cos…. well…… I watched Buffy and Angel on Friday night (as usual). Laughed my arse off at Buffy, cos she didn’t get there in time to stop Riley leaving forever (*snigger*….. not that I really hate her, but it’s good to see the heroine not getting it all her way). And then I watched Angel. In which Darla and Drusilla caused much mayhem. *vbg* The upshot of this is, I’ve been doing a brand new Darla & Dru website all weekend. I promised myself I wouldn’t make any new sites now. Guess I lied. Ho hum ;-)

Trying the Blogvoices thing….

Oookay…. trying the Blogvoices thing…. try leaving me a comment and see if it works! *g* Oh, and added a permalink to each post as well, cos you never know when they might come in handy. Ummm. Right. Going to bed. Verrrrrrrrrrrrry tired.

Buggrit waaagh, etc

Buggrit waaagh, millenium hand and shrimp! Or summat like that. I’m only 91.7% Teenybopper Pure. *sniff* It’s not my fault I can name the Spice Girls or that I saw Titanic at the cinema! Damnit…… *g* Going to try the Freak one now. Getting these via Anji btw. Aha. 79.2% freak. Cool. Joined a few … Continue reading “Buggrit waaagh, etc”

Aha. 79.2% freak. Cool.

Joined a few cliques n stuff yesterday. I’m going to expand my links, too – add a page for them, and just have the ones I visit daily on the main page…. maybe rotate a few or something. I’ll do that this evening. I registered with BlogVoices too. Also putting that up later….. and now back to work.

Singers =/ musicians

Why are singers never considered musicians? Not that I’m moaning about this clique in particular, cos it says it’s for instrumentalists and all, but it just reminded me. :-( I’m a musician, damnit! Well yeah, I play instruments too, but my primary instrument is voice. Someone told me I couldn’t get into the MU, either, … Continue reading “Singers =/ musicians”

It’s all ground to a halt.

It’s all ground to a halt. FMS is dead….. I have nothing to do, cos I’ve done everything I was doing, and now I can’t pick up anything new. Lee is pretending to play golf with the gold-laquered bowling pin. A few people are in the monitoring room, watching telly, and just about everyone who … Continue reading “It’s all ground to a halt.”

It’s all ground to a halt. FMS is dead….. I have nothing to do, cos I’ve done everything I was doing, and now I can’t pick up anything new. Lee is pretending to play golf with the gold-laquered bowling pin. A few people are in the monitoring room, watching telly, and just about everyone who smokes has gone for a fag break. I spun on my chair for a bit, but I got dizzy…… must find something to do……

And on another note, I think I want one of those doobries to add comments to posts. Bet no-one would use it, though. *g*

Mmmm, technology…

I think I might go to this computer fair thingy when it hits town. Despite the scary scrolling marquee, and the scarier roll-overs (my eyes, my eyes!), and all those animated gifs…… yeah, it’s a bit much for my taste. However, someone at work has the catalogue, and it looks like there might be some … Continue reading “Mmmm, technology…”

I think I might go to this computer fair thingy when it hits town. Despite the scary scrolling marquee, and the scarier roll-overs (my eyes, my eyes!), and all those animated gifs…… yeah, it’s a bit much for my taste. However, someone at work has the catalogue, and it looks like there might be some good bargains. I’ll have some cash by then, and i need a zip drive (or a CD writer if I can afford it). Could also do with some more RAM, and it looks like you can get 128Mb for mere 30 quid. Hmmmm.

Cliqueiness

Hmm. Joined Messina’s new Over the Rainbow clique, and also the GBlogs groupy thing. I wasn’t going to join cliques and stuff through this site, but hey, I wanted to, so why not. *g* Note the new ‘belongings’ (pop-up) link on the right. I was going to have an early night tonight. Uhh… oops.

I was going to have an early night tonight. Uhh… oops.

Interesting.

I’m finding this really interesting. Haven’t read it all yet, but I’m getting there. Did a course on Technology and Society on the OU, but in the end I was only really interested in the internet side. I think if I ever do another course anywhere, I’d rather go for something more on the practical … Continue reading “Interesting.”

{“fits to a T” – where does that phrase come from? Hmmm.}

Oh, and the Referral Madness section over on NotSoSoft inspired me to take a peek at my own (embarassingly modest) stats. Most of the hits I’ve had have been from links, but I’ve had 3 search engine referrals (not too bad, I guess, since I haven’t bunged any keywords up or registered with any engines yet). Nothing strange and bizarre, but nothing really relevant either. One was for ‘alien pictures’ (that’d be the background, then *g*), and two for ‘Emily Bouffant’ (the girl I went to school with who’s now on telly).

Watched Shanghai Noon last night. Nicely entertaining – the funniest thing, though, has to be the subtitles for the American Indians. Tis impressive though, considering that Jackie Chan must be getting on a bit now – some of the fight scenes were pretty damn cool. And the subtitles were better than having it dubbed, too – some of his earlier stuff is kinda spoiled by the comedy dubbing IMO…. but on the other hand that’s kinda sposed to be like that, and you do get used to it. Heh. B has corrupted me. And talking of which, we’re sposed to be going to the pub quiz tonight…. I want to, but I’m sooooo tired. And also, these headaches aren’t of the good. I ought to go to the optician, I reckon. Maybe I’ll have a night of a bit of telly then bed, and no computer (yeah, right). Last couple of days I’ve also been playing with graphics for B’s new site, and updating the HRFHS site for Mum. I need fewer websites. Damn.

Odd Stuff

Saw Megs this morning on the train. I was running late, and she was running a bit early. Urgh, just think of that – going to college at 7.45am. When I was in the 6th form, I’m sure I never even got up before 8am. At least I get paid for the early thing now! … Continue reading “Odd Stuff”

Noticed odd stuff this morning. Mainly cos once Megs got off the station before me, I moved over to sit on the other side of the train. I hadn’t realised it before, but I always sit on the same side, so today I had a whole new view. And there was this little warp in the glass of the window, which was just at about head-height for the passengers standing on the station, and did strange and comical things to their faces. Heh. Then I saw a giant metal spider in a field – it was a climbing frame. Very scary. And on the kind of patch of wasteland that I guess the travellers must use, there were a couple of ponies, and some goats. A couple of the goats were those really long haired ones. Maaaaah. I knew a goat called Louise when I was little. There’s a pic somewhere. I’ll stick it up when the rest of this site happens.

Train pulled into a different platform to normal, too. Honestly, the trains up here really have no rhyme or reason to them. They actually apologised for the delay today, though, which makes a change. All the stations are those big long shed things like you get on Thomas the Tank Engine (or you used to….. don’t know if that still does) too. They were filming something in the station here the other week – I was told it was a remake of Murder on the Orient Express, but I haven’t been able to find anything on the net about it. Could be a BBC drama thing, of course. Didn’t see any of the actors except from the distance, at an angle (in a wood, with an owl….) so dunno if David Suchet was Poirot-ing it up again…….

Ahhhh, retail therapy…..

Ahhhh, retail therapy….. :-) I feel better. Not that I was so very terrible to begin with….. I just had a marginally crappy weekend, especially compared to poor Megs–> {{{{{*hugs*}}}}}. But I still have no Worf (a big black cat tried to come in the catflap last night, and it might have been him, but Willow was on her guard-cat roll, and went haring off and chased him away…. it was too dark to see clearly if it actually was him or not), and Saturday night wasn’t fun – went over to B’s friends’ place, but I had a pounding headache and was really out of it, so now they’re going to think I’m even more of a boring old party pooper than they did before cos of my work hours. :-( And today I have the thing which we don’t mention to the blokes at work cos it totally freaks them all (ROTFL!). So, retail therapy….. lots of new tops. Wanted trousers, and maybe a skirt too, but I didn’t have time to try them on. Maybe tomorrow. This shop rocks, though. It’s not as big as Black Rose of course, but it has lots of Omen stuff. *drools* I’m going to end up spending sooooooo much money there…..

Heheheheh.

Heheheheh. This is a good one. I’m 58% gay, apparantly – “A happy and well adjusted hetero”. Sounds ’bout right, I guess. Oh, and that thing that made Megs 27, reckoned I was 30. Should I be insulted? *g* The breakdown, though, had me at 25 a lot of the time. Bugger, I’m stereotypical for … Continue reading “Heheheheh.”

Shrove Tuesday

It was Shrove Tuesday yesterday (Mmmm, pancaaaaakes), which means that today is Ash Wednesday, and the first day of Lent. Heh, I’m glad I’m not Roman Catholic, so I don’t have to have a great big smudge on my forehead all day. *g* But anyway, I have to give up something now til Easter. Though we didn’t actually have pancakes last night since we had a takeaway and then we were full. LOL. So we’re having them tonight, and I’ll start Lent tomorrow instead. I’m such a procrastinator! I am going to do it, though. I’ve decided it’s about time to kick my ‘coke habit’. In case you actually did wonder, that’s Coca Cola, not cocaine. I practically live off of the stuff, which just can’t be good. I did say I was giving it up if I got this new job, and when I moved up here I was doing really well til Worf went missing – I was all upset, and needed the sugar! So it’s time to try it again…….

Should get the SPIKED Awards results up on the site this evening, and most of the awards out. I don’ t know if I’ll manage to get all the awards done for tonight, cos there’s drinking after work, and then further drinking later on at the pub quiz (I’ve been paid today, thank God, so I have money – yay!). But I’ll do my best, and I’ll at least email all the winners. I had a cock-up with the award graphics, you see, so I’m behind. Not too many more to do, though. I’ve also decided to do an honourable mention graphic for all the other sites / fics, but I won’t send that out for a day or two…..

Spiked Awards voting, etc

Well….. hmm…. the voting for the SPIKED Awards is all done, and we have winners. *g* They won’t be announced until Wednesday, though, as I still have to finish off making some of the awards, and put the winning site and fic titles on the ones I already have. And I’m working another 5 day stretch again. Yes, I know most people work 5 days in a row, but I do shifts. Still, another 2 and a half weeks of it, and then I’ve taken 4 days leave which actually gives me 9 days off. Yay! :-) I’ll probably be spending the time getting my sites all up to date. Heh.

I know it’s silly, but I keep having dreams that I’ve found Worf. *sigh* There wasn’t any sign of him by the railtracks, in the end. Pesky animal that he is. But I hope it was him, cos at least that would mean he’s not far away. I still wonder if he’s trying to get back to London….. urgh.

Oh, hey, and I’m writing again…. I’d taken a bit of a break, but then I got inspired and now I’ve got 3 on the go. All Spike-y fic, of course. Hmm, actually, I’ve got 5 on the go if you count Night Walks On (I occasionally do bits of it, but it’s depressing writing a story you know no-one’s interested in), and the Harmony fic I’ve been playing around with since last summer. That’s a fun one, but it keeps getting interrupted. Oh well….. back to work….