I've been trying to post to my blog for weeks now, and have been very sparingly successful. If this posting actually makes it, I will be amazed.

This inability to post (via ftp) to my blog has really deterred my posting frequency.

Almost every time I try to republish my blog I get the message:

"Your Publish is Taking Longer than Expected. To continue waiting for it to finish, click here."

I click and it continues to cycle back to the same message. Sometimes if I continue to click the link it eventually publishes.

I really don't want to do it, but I think I may need to change blogging services.

Labels: blog, blogger, computer, ftp, publish, troubleshooting

posted by jame1030 at 2:28 AM |   |  0 comments  |  links to this post

For the past two weeks I've been struck with some sort of virus or trojan that slightly hijacked my computer. Luckily now, I've finally taken care of it and everything is back to normal.

It was nothing more than the usual pop up windows and web page redirection. It even made my homepage timeout (which happens to be this page). So for two weeks I couldn't even view my own site. The weird part was that none of the computers on the home network could view it either.

I've been without my good ol Jame1030.com for a bit. So in my discouragement, I haven't been blogging much either.

Work has been building to a very busy second half of the month, and I see much overtime and weekends devoted to get some deadlines met. But like usual, you do what ya gotta do to get your shit done.

On the home front...

After completing the back patio, I've been motivated with ideas, but we have no real plans to do much any time soon. Everything is good, and there are no problems to report.

I ran to my very first scorpion since living here in Ariz0na.



I was moving a pile of newspapers in the garage when I found a large spider which I proceeded to mash with a daily newspaper. As I shuffled some of the other papers, this guy comes out flailing it's arms around. Similar to the spider I proceed to smash the shit out of it... not before I grabbed my camera and took a few shots of this creepy creature.

Afterwards, I proceeded to get the gallon bottle of pump insect spray and went around the whole perimeter of the house and concentrated on doorways and the garage.

I know I'm being more than paranoid, but maybe we should start our home on yearly pesticide treatments.

Labels: Arizona, computer, scorpian, trojan, virus

posted by jame1030 at 12:13 AM |   |  2 comments  |  links to this post