June 30, 2005
Rocketboom
The future of blogs (for the talented or good looking). The rest of us probably have better faces for writing.
June 22, 2005
Back in the saddle again...
We went to Lewis & Clark Caverns last weekend, and on the way home, we happened to stop at the Harley shop in Belgrade. To make the long story short, we now own a pair of Sportsters. Cele got a blue 883L and I got this 1200 custom.
I got my first motorcycle thirty years ago, and have enjoyed them ever since. This is my fourth bike and my first Harley. If I was a smart ass, I'd say my first ride on a Harley was everything I'd expected it to be from the stories I grew up with. I made it 28 miles down the highway and it crapped out on me. 7:30 Sunday night and I was stranded on the interstate with $11,000 worth of brand new scrap iron. It turned out to be an unplugged stator - the electrical system was running on the battery until it died because it wasn't charging. The dealership was very good about driving out and picking up the bike and fixing it, and tomorrow they are delivering it (Belgrade is 160 miles away). I've been riding Cele's, and it is a sweet ride. I can't wait to get mine back. Oh, and the caverns were fun to, even if it did turn into an expensive trip.
June 05, 2005
Bad Web Hosting Co. - Round 2
I finally got my blog back up and running this week end after the oafs at Fatcow thoroughly screwed it up in their server upgrade several months ago. I wasn't alone, and fortunately was able to glean some clues to the fix from the problems of others. I called their help desk when my site disappeared immediately after their upgrade, and at least they got my home page up and running, but the pages with php scripts returned errors. I called them back about this and their cracker jack tech department asked for a list of php pages. They then "fixed" the problem by actually going into those pages and DELETING THE PHP FROM MY PAGES! I went in the next day, and all my php was GONE from the code. I was pissed, but actually too busy to stop and fight with them at the time - in the wake of my dad dying, we've been house hunting for my mother plus selling her house in Dillon, 255 miles away, plus getting her moved here after we closed on a condo in May, so fighting with an invisible, incompetent tech support crew had to be low priority.
Now I'm back, and I'm rested and ready. There isn't really much I can do to them except tell everyone who'll listen, FATCOW SUCKS. Their tech support is incompetent at best and flat out dishonest at worst. This is my second bad experience with a web hosting company - anyone who recognizes the name Feature Price knows what I mean. So, with a month left on my account at FatCowSucks, I'm in the hunt for another web host. Third times the charm, and I'm open to recommendations.