WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING HERE?
By; Speaker Linda J. Polley


Well everything was going great until Saturday, April 3, 1999. We'd almost finished our second web site which features our on-line art gallery, our scanner and printer were working fine, then I noticed the pop up advertising was back on our web site, which wasn't supposed to be there because Gerald's Tripod Premium Membership was supposed to have been automatically renewed March 30th, 1999. I figured it was a computer glitch of some kind. Then I went into our filemanager where we keep our web site and found it read that we only had 11 MB of space where we are supposed to have 22 with premium membership! Still another computer glitch I wondered? These things have been known to happen.
The next day the window was still there. So early Easter morning Gerald told me to write Tripod and ask what was going on, then go into our web site files and delete all the books we had published on there, and if we needed to, take off more so we'd be below the 11 megabytes reqired. Then later that day we received an official notice stating that his premium membership had expired. We wrote Tripod another letter asking what was going on, and they responded April 7, 1999 saying our credit card had expired, that we had to fill out new information. Gerald had me write another letter to the company saying that this was not so, and their staff was totally encompetent.
In the middle of all this, we had been having trouble every night with the resident hackers shutting down Gerald's chat room, sometimes in the morning too. So we moved it to another location.
Like we're so fond of saying we must be doing something right because so much stuff is going wrong! We're keeping our fingers crossed everything will be o.k. but now Gerald is having trouble at work again. The same people who caused him problems a while back are starting in with the same type of things again. Also Gerald fell and hurt his leg there, so he hasn't been able to sleep very well. The usual battle with spring hay fever is going on because the trees are budding. And our computer never did get back to normal after I reinstalled Windows 95Plus and IE 4.0 after we mysteriously lost Word Pad one Sunday night!
It never rains it pours. Well the good news is this is our 13th anniversary issue! May we have many, many more to come! And may there be much more GOOD news to report!
Thank you all for reading VOICES and we hope you'll stay with us for a long, long time!

 



We've lost a great entertainer with the death of Al Hirt. His music always lifted our spirits, as I'm sure it will continue to lift the spirits of the Souls where he now is. I remember with sadness the incident some years ago, where someone hit him with a brick because he was performing with black musicians. We can dream that such incidents will never happen again. But with the ignorance of man it is unlikely that dream will come true. Play on, trumpet man, play on!

 

 

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