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Wednesday 21 September 2011

You May be Experiencing Problems!

In accessing my site and the forum, because I certainly am :-( And my server host DialANetwork are not responding to my enquiries. I suppose they could be suffering a DoS attack, but why no information on their site?!  Looks like I'll be transferring again. Does anybody know a good website hoster? :-)

Tuesday 20 September 2011

I had to laugh when reading my last blog as all that pales into insignificance in comparison to what happened afterwards. Courtesy of an automatic update from MS I lost the use of my Win XP PC : ( I tried all sorts to save my PC and information, but despite following MS advice I was unable to save the XP on the hard drive. Thankfully I was able to transfer most of my files to another hard drive, and as I keep my emails in the Cloud (learned my lesson from a previous disaster) all my important information was safe.

I then tried to reformat the PC in various ways without success and when the PC refused to boot from a Windows 7 64 bit CD (2 PC's you see) I was pulling my hair out. For the good of my health I took a break for 2 days and then inexplicably decided to see if Win 7 would, out of the goodness of its heart, now work. To my amazement and relief it did. This miracle saved me a considerable sum of money.

Before I could get back to work on my website and forum I had to spend the best part of a day downloading updates and replacement programs. Of course I was calm throughout and did not curse Microsoft once.

So then back to work I went, having lost over a week's productivity. I would like to say all has gone smoothly since but it would be a lie ; ) I won't go into a blow by blow account as time is short, suffice to say it is only now that I can say the forum is now prepared for action. The forum can be found HERE and, even if I do say so myself, is looking good. All I need now are a few members, who hopefully will access the forum from the website New to World of Warcraft, which is a free World of Warcraft guide for new players .

I look forward to seeing you all soon.