I have been having several issues with One Care over the past couple of weeks. The firewall was blocking some sites that I frequently used, and nine out of ten times it would not start with Windows. Over the time that I had One Care installed, I had put in support requests five times. I know that is the draw back to beta testing software, but One Care has to be the buggiest software that I have ever tested.
On the advice of the support technician, I was supposed to uninstall and reinstall Once Care. Again. (Uninstalling and reinstalling seemed to be their answer for everything.) The uninstall bombed out, and the computer crashed. I started the computer up again, and I had no network connectivity. Great. After trouble shooting everything that I knew how, I gave up.
I backed up my email and Firefox, and reformatted. (All of my documents are stored on a network drive.) I have unattended installation disks created for the majority of the software that I use, and reinstall Windows about once a year anyways, so it is really not that big of a deal.
The thing that irritates me most about this situation is the lack of support that i received. There was a minimum twenty-four hour wait time for each response, and I have not heard from the technician since I said that I lost network connectivity, forty-eight hours ago. I have not told them that I reinstalled Windows. I will if I ever get a response.
This excellant extension will let you post to your weblog from withing Firefox. It will split the screen in half, fo reasy viewing of your reference material. You can download it here. It supports Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Live Journal, TypePad.com, or any WordPress of Movable Type power blog.
I have been looking for something like this for a long time. For the longest time it seemed that Blogger got all of the good hacks, my favorite being Blogger for Word. The “Blog This” functionality of the Google Toolbar was also iresome to me, but no longer.
So, go download this extension, and Happy Blogging!
Update: There was a little bug where Performancing was inserting twelve spaces in front of the title and the first line of the post. That seems to have disappeared with the upgrade in the extension and my installation of WordPress 2.0.
…Err. Heat Pump, I mean.
Some time last night our heat pump decided that 60 degrees was warm enough for us. I disagreed, but the heat pump would not listen. Apparently it wanted a second opinion. The repair guy is here trying to convince it that it needs to be warmer.
Update: As it turns out it was just the thermostat. Apparently it was not signaling for the auxiliary heat to come on. The technician said that the auxiliary heat is needed when it is this cold outside, and at this temperature the heat pump would only be able to sustain about 60 degrees in the house, which is where it has been hovering when we do not use the space heaters. I am glad this is taken care of, and it was something small. Hopefully the new windows will help to retain some heat when they get put in as well.
Update 2: The ice has now melted off of the insides of my windows!
RJ took part in his first Christmas program at Church today. I actually remember these from when I was little. Our little boy in growing up.
He was very well behaved, but he did not last throughout the whole program.
My little sister turned twenty-six today!
