Techno-Woes

[kelly_chambliss]

Here is a list of my current technology mysteries/frustrations:

1. The lovely Janeway picture that I was using for my LiveJournal has inexplicably disappeared. I did nothing to it, but for some reason, it's no longer showing up on my posts, and it doesn't show up on my LiveJournal "edit" page.

2. I wanted to update my Tripod website ("Kelly's Janeway Fiction"), but every time I try to access my files at Tripod, I am redirected to their "upgrade your membership" page. I don't want to upgrade my membership (I prefer the free version, thank you), but there's no way to get out of the "upgrade" loop. Every single link on the Tripod homepage redirects me to the damn upgrade thing. And once you're there, you can't get out of it. No matter what you click on, you're sent back to various "upgrade" pages. So unless this is some bizarro, totally annoying marketing ploy that they'll remove in a few days (rather like the PBS membership drive), I guess I am locked out of my website forever, unless I decide to pay for it. Yeah, right. As I said, locked out forever.

3. My sucky school has decided to limit the bandwith for the number of IM accounts that can be active at one time. As a result, I am never able to log on, because the students have caught on to the bandwith-limitation thing, and they leave themselves logged on permanently. So, I accessed my AIM account through AIM's website, a handy little trick I learned when I was visiting the UK last year. Problem -- it won't let me use my usual log-on name of "kellychamb." Says it's already in use (which is a lie). So I had to invent a new username. All the ones I wanted were taken. (Who are these people?) So now I had to become "kellyfanfic," which I think is stupid. But I ask you -- what choice did I have? After having eight screen-names rejected, I ran out of ideas.

 My techno-world is apparently coming to an end, and there seems to be nothing I can do about it.

Comments

[alex-voy.livejournal.com]

Your Janeway icon is showing up in my 'Friends' posts on this entry as usual. Maybe it's just a temporary glitch in the journal at your end.

I can't help with the other problems, just hope you manage to gain acess to your website again. I sympathize with the name thing -- had the same problem when I first joined the newsgroups. E-mail wasn't much better, either.

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

You were right, Alex. The picture has returned as inexplicably as it departed.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I have plenty of space on mirrordance.net if you'd like a subdomain. Have just had my bandwidth improved, too.

Alas, I cannot help you with the AIM problem.

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Liz. I may take you up on this offer at some point. You're too kind.