Comments on: Back Online: finally

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:30:38 +0000

> some less-than-savory hacker type in the hotel sniffing around on the network

Damn, it’s me!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:23:05 +0000

Thanks for posting how you got back online — my dad is having some interesting random fun with Vista losing sight of the outside world (while my mom’s computer, six inches away and plugged in to the same router) is still skipping gaily about in the Internets. So I’ll give this a shot next time and see what’s what — I wonder if Vista gets scared of packets it doesn’t recognize and tries to protect itself or something (might explain why a hotel network would have borked you, particularly if there was some less-than-savory hacker type in the hotel sniffing around on the network).

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:37:29 +0000

Hi Marsha. Yes, I had forgotten about the duck, and when I saw him when I get back online, he had to go.

I’m going to handle some email before going to work. Just because I can.

By: AUNT MARSHA

AUNT MARSHA — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:24:04 +0000

Is Vista what you had at Isle of Palms, Meg?

Wow, Doug (h), reading that blocked and re-admin’d entry gave me chills. Though I have never been to Copenhagen, I experienced something sooo similar after a trip to CA last year—offline for what felt like forever. Can’t remember exactly how I got back on…Jamal may have taken remote control. No, I would have had to log on and give him that. Don’t know–just remember what a horrific nightmare it was and how lost and violated and deprived I felt during the time I was not allowed access, which seemed endless and forever-esque.

I am not, btw, one of the ones who should ever BE the administrator of my own cyber senses and such. Well, you’ve seen me in action–you know the dangers.

Took the gran to your house yesterday. She was asking me things like, “Is this picture taken from the living room or the kitchen?” Um, let’s see….THE LAST TIME I WAS THERE, AT THE HOUSE THEY DON’T LIVE IN YET…which I, like you, have never seen other than these pictures…Also showed her Meg’s quilt, the cats, etc.

She loved it. We both agree that it has a great deal of charm and dignity and some slight hauntings of Essex St.

love, love,
the aunt (LOVE the new cover pics for the blog—very cool! Was getting weary of that duck, beautiful though he was)

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:50:55 +0000

I’ve finally got the wireless card working on my Vista laptop, too. Now we need to get it set on yours.