Author Archives: Lorelle VanFossen
Email Letter Catching Up – Arrival in the States
– – – This was sent out a week after arrival in the US to our friends via email, catching them up. Since it includes some more info, I posted it here, to catch everyone else up, too. – – – Well, we are in the states. I know this is late going out to […]
Fixing the SpeedStream 5360 DSL to a Router
Brent’s dad is signed up with SBC’s Yahoo (SBC Global) for their high speed internet. I had set up our wireless router to the DSL a year and a half ago, but now nothing would make this work. Frustrated from reading tons of helpless help files, I turned to the online support chat at SBC […]
Cassini-Huygens Photographs from Another Planet
Brent and I are out of control hunting the Internet, listening to the radio and watching TV to see the first pictures from Titan. They are finally in at ESA – Cassini-Huygens. WOW! We are amazed that the thing was able to crash land and still return great pictures. Too exciting. I want to go […]
Offers to Help and the Cleaning Process
My mother sent me an email offering to fly down to Tulsa after Thanksgiving to help us get ready. While I really appreciated the thought, the hardest work is between now and thanksgiving weekend. By Nov 28 or 29 we are on the road to Alabama. Estimating 3 days travel, though it could be more […]
Complaint Against ipowerweb Web Site Host – Bad HTML Editor
I thought I would post this complaint I’ve posted to my new web site hosts, ipowerweb, publicly so that all could be warned. The odds are that they will “take this under advisement” and not do anything, but it is important that you, either the current customer or potential customer, should be warned. While I […]
Flashbacks via Cleaning Out the Trailer
I’ve been horribly sick with the start of strep throat and laryngitis which moved into fever and chills. Horrible way to start this new chapter in our life. I pulled myself up by my bootstraps, literally, and headed out yesterday with Brent to the trailer to begin the cleaning out process. It was easier than […]
Arriving in Tulsa – Start of a new life?
We made all the connections for our flight with ease, enjoying the new Tel Aviv airport for only the 20 minutes it took to get on the airplane. It’s a lovely airport, though. Matches much of the airports we’ve visited, so it doesn’t look any different. Somehow I thought it would “look” more Israeli, a […]
WordPress Plugins and Add-ons
I’ve been digging into the various options and gizmos associated with using WordPress for blogging. I’m amazed at the incredible work done by so many to advance this free software. Seriously swift folks are battling away at spammers, and pumping up the capabilities of WordPress for everyone. And they are all so willing to share […]
Setting Up Multiple POP3 Accounts
We are starting the steps to switch over to our domain’s email services and that involves setting up POP3 Accounts through Outlook Express. The setting up process is fairly easy, though you do have to make sure that the SERVER, My Account Requires Authentication is checked or unchecked, depending upon your server’s requirements. There are […]
Arafat is Dead
November 4, 2004 Well, the news is fluctuating back and forth. Dead. Not dead. Dead. Not dead. Clinically dead. Means not dead. Dead. Not dead. Either way, good riddance to bad rubbish. I know Arafat wanted to go out with martyr’s bang, a target of Israeli aggression, assassination, some spectacular event where he dies facing […]
Dismissing Hotmail
I’ve given it a lot of thought and finally made a radical decision to blow out (over time, of course) our hotmail accounts. They have been very useful for a long time as they have been free and easy to access from any where in the world as we travel. Our web site email has […]
Weblog Studies and Woes
Today the count of spam in my three day old weblog with WordPress is 183. I have installed the spam words filter and spaminator, and these help, but STILL!!! I think these are the left overs from the day before that I haven’t cleaned out of my blog email inbox. So far, WordPress’s Edit Comments […]
WordPress Blog: Fighting Spammers
I’ve been doing some research and trying different things to make WordPress work for me as blogger software. I’m still having trouble trying to blog by email as it seems my server host may not have updated POP3 software. Buggers. Dealing with the horrid spammers, I’ve set up the Discussion Options to include a filter […]
Setting Up the Blog
After quite a bit of research, I decided to give WordPress a try for handling our blog. For the most part, the “5 minute installation” worked great but there were a few minor glitches in the process. Almost immediately after posting the blog, but not any links from my web site pages, since I still […]
Counting Up the Cost of Moving, Part 1
Okay, so far we have spent USD $660 for shipping 12 boxes of critical stuff. We’ve bought several batches of bubble wrap, probably totally around $50 worth and we will need some more before this is over. We also have gone through about six rolls of packing tape, at probably $3 a roll which adds […]