KiMformation

Well, I did everything the Cox Internet rep said to fix my Outlook Express problem.  Man, I thought he was onto something.  This tech said that the feature in Norton Antivirus that scans incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses was the culprit.  He said that it scans for viruses by re-routing your e-mail to its server, which doesn't recognize my User Name and Password.  (He swore this was the second in a double-protection system, so I would not be left vulnerable to an e-mailed virus, and I think this is as I recall from when I installed the program.)  Made sense.  So, I duly disabled those features, and then uninstalled and re-installed Outlook Express and Internet Explorer (yeah, right, like you can get those programs off of your computer -- just try it!).  Still, I could only send, but not receive.   The distressing thing is, any e-mail that was sent to me in the last 3 days is gone.  Once Cox Internet's server made delivery to my address, it was history.  So, now I have to dig around in Quicken and try to figure out what e-bills I've missed -- Murphy's Law and all, you know. 

Never one to give up easily, I've nonetheless had it!  Spending my precious personal PC time tooling around with a program that's basically supposed to be invisible is an utter waste of time.  So, I'm trying out Eudora, which I downloaded for free here.  And I'm already receiving e-mail again.  It even imported my address book and mail folders from OE.  YIPPEE!!  So far, so good.  Looks like I'm back in the loop . . .

- Posted by Kim Plonsky - 10:54:49 PM - radio comments (past)  []

Brent:  "When we go to Biloxi this weekend, I'm playing in a golf tournament Saturday morning, but check-in time at the hotel isn't until the afternoon.  Do you want me to beg-off of the tourney?"

KiM (upon being revived after fainting on the floor):  "Didn't you read my blog?  I'm reading books in Biloxi.  Drop me off at Barnes & Noble, or maybe the internet cafe we found in Gulfport last time.  I'll be fine."

Didn't you read my blog?  Wasn't this in a comic strip making fun of blogging, a while back?

- Posted by Kim Plonsky - 10:12:42 PM - radio comments (past)  []

I had a really great day today, much to my happy surprise, and it had everything to do with techonology.  Friday at work, I got a long-distance rush assignment from Ernie the Attorney to enter a new case and its documents into CaseMap and Adobe Acrobat-Not-the-Reader-But-the-Full-Blown-Version.  This was my first project for Ernie, our in-house techno guru/attorney extraordinaire, and I naturally wanted to do the best job I could.  I received the imaged documents from Ernie via e-mail, along with a replica of the CaseMap case file, and then turned in my work product via e-mail Sunday morning, eager for Ernie's response.

As Murphy's Law would have it, a recurrent issue with Microsoft Outlook Express/Norton Antivirus 2000/Windows XP Home, whereby I'm suddenly locked out of my Cox Internet e-mail (password rejected) struck again this weekend.  After once again rooting around in Microsoft's Knowledge Base, and then tooling around in the Windows System Registry (oh, what fun), I got my e-mail to send, but it still wouldn't receive.  Pace, pace.  Fret, fret.  No e-mail from Ernie, no e-mail from anyone.

And then, when I got to work this morning, there had been some kind of major power outage in Downtown New Orleans, which was without both power and water.  So, now I was without outside e-mail at work, too.   But, at least we still had the internet, so I wasn't completely a dead link.  I decided I'd better check in on Ernie's weblog before things went from bad to worse.  Well, just imagine how I felt when I found a lengthy post about the assignment I'd just completed, entitled "A new model for legal work."  It was, in a word . . . surreal.  In addition to being ecstatic about getting such a rave review (and in public, even), I realized that I've entered a realm where I can get information about my job performance from a blog.  Is that amazing, or what?

Murphy not being quite finished with me, I suddenly remembered the loopy poem I posted up to my blog last night, giddy after being freed from the cave where I had been devouring documents for the better part of 3 days and thinking that maybe -- just maybe -- I did a good job.  And now, Ernie had pointed to me on his blog, loopy poem and all.  **Sigh**

Techno highs and lows, indeed.

- Posted by Kim Plonsky - 9:33:08 PM - radio comments (past)  []