Feb 06 2006

Linux or Windows server?

category: computers

The guy from GoDaddy support was AMAZING.

Mr. Amazing…

  • giggled, knew what I wanted before I did. I do so lurve good anticiiiiiiiipaaaaaaatiooooooon
  • complimented me on the 2 web pages I’d published yesterday* and asked what software I’d used to make them (Microsoft Publisher).
  • Made purring sounds of approval
  • explained why I needed a SQL Server then confirmed that I’d successfully set one up. Explained why I might need more than one using a softly pleasing tone of voice.
  • chuckled
  • told me how to set-up ‘Wordpress 2′
  • chuckled a bit more
  • Mentioned he has half a dozen “MoveableType” sites, has learned to prefer ‘Wordpress 2′ when given the choice.

politely REFUSED to marry me!

A girl’s gotta try, good technical support people are a RARE find and worth their weight in gold

Evidently all my problems stemmed from having purchased a Windows web server rather than a Linux web server. Hows a girl supposed to know that? It seemed like a good guess that Windows is what I wanted, after-all, everything else I have runs on windows….and most my decisions are actually guesses. Mr. Amazing is now transferring everything on my account to Linux for me*. Sigh. do you think he’s a player?

W

*moving my web server account from Windows to Linux servers will take acouple of days, web pages wont be available during this time.

Feb 06 2006

Player characteristics #4: Preening

category: courting
scribble tags:

Forth reflection on collective symptoms of what North American’s call a ‘player‘*.  

#4:  Preening

Attention to very specific presentational detail.  Having a well-constructed creative story associated with that preening activity (car, clothes etc). 

Examples:

I shave my chest because people don’t like to look at all that hair

(note that his shirt has to be open to display the chest hair,  or lack there-of.  Could he have been ‘medallion man’ in the 1970s?)

 

 

I pluck my eyebrows in the middle of my forhead and trim the excess length otherwise I’d look like a werewolf

(maybe i’m wierd,  but fluffy is good,  and vulpine is worth a big laugh,  BOOM BOOM)

 

 

The bra padding is to keep my boobs warm

NO, No, no,  that’s me,  Wendy, I’m not a player…..

 

 

Players don’t seem to realise that regular reproduction of self-conciously constructed preening looks suspiciously like vanity and wears-thin with repeated use. 

W what-have-you-noticed?

* No single symptom can lead to a reliable diagnosis of a ‘Player’.  This ‘disorder’ is not yet recognised by the DSM IV.

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