In case you were wondering how my upgrade to Windows 7 is going…
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You will be happy to know that fundable.com has issued a refund to my donors. Mr. Pratt sent me screenshots this morning of a PayPal payment going to Donor 2 and checks going to my dad and Donor 1. I’m paraphrasing, but if I get permission to post the email, I will — He reiterated
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For the benefit of those of you who read this via rss, LJ or Facebook, I wanted to let you know that I exchanged a series of emails with John Pratt, co-founder of fundable.com. With his permission, I’ve appended the series to the end of my original post about my fundable.com fundraiser. I did that
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Edited to add: In 2009, the original fundable.com shut down. In 2011, Virtucon Ventures (http://www.virtuconventures.com) purchased the domain. They are not associated with the original Fundable.com or Mr. Pratt, and will be re-launching the site in April of 2012. This page remains as an archival record of my correspondence with Mr. Pratt but should in no way reflect on
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Yesterday I was having trouble with my blog, which are still a mystery. Basically, my RSS feed looks fine everywhere except Google Reader. While trying to figure out which plugin was causing that, I did a series of test posts, about 30 of them and was tossing a single line of fiction into each by
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Then behold! I am on a new server. The real question is: Do my posts show up in RSS again, or am I still relegated to headline only.
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Hm… Well, that was unexpected. So now I’ve added some plugins back in and am trying again. Sorry this is so dull. In other news, my throat hurts.
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After all of the problems with my computer, I waited for two days to make sure it was stable before I started writing on it. It felt so good to be back on a familiar keyboard and with a full size screen, so I got some good words in. And then my computer crashed again.
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For those of you following along with my computer woes, you may join me in cautious optimism. My new harddrive arrived today and I sat down to install it. Annnnnnd… the computer wouldn’t boot from the recovery disc, which is supposed to be a boot disc. Crap. So I took everything out and put it
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I’ve been struggling with my main computer for some time. That’s part of why I got the eee pc. The Kowal Portable been crashing a lot and I was afraid to write on it because it would go down with no warning. I’d get a blue screen of death, but it always flashed past too
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Recently, depending on where you see me, I might have seemed to vanish for a couple of reasons. Livejournal: A button got flipped which clicked “Date out of Order” on all of my posts. If that’s set, they don’t show up on friends pages. So, if you want to click through to my page and
10:41 The downside to giving a dinner party with “correct” place-settings is dealing with the ridiculous amount of silver afterwards. # 11:53 The upside to giving a dinner party with “correct” place-settings is that I love my china and silver. I just clearly need staff for cleanup. # 12:26 Whoops.Got our phone bill.All of my
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I think my computer has gone insane. It was scrolling to the bottom of every page in any program I opened in Windows, so I switched over to Linux (I have a dual boot right now) and rather than doing that, it is randomly opening tabs. I suspect that what’s actually happening is a potential
Rob picked up some new RAM for my computer, reasoning that it might help with some of the sluggishness problems I’ve been having. Alas, when installed, the computer turns on but fails to boot. So I pulled them out and put the old RAM back in. I’m sure it’s my imagination but the darn thing
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13:39 I never hear my computer’s fan in NYC. At my parents’ house the same fan is so darn loud. # 16:11 I’m frustrated by how often my site is goes off-line for exceeding CPU quotas. Want to suggest another hosting company or fiddle with MySQL? # 16:46 I hate customer service that does not
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