Westy is Wild Again

Too much Spam!!

westy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:46:43 +0000

I’m getting sick of it! Every day, more spam comments, all in the same entry, and all with a John792 or other number. I delete, I mark as spam… 1 minute later the next ones. Next step will be to delete that entry… and maybe delete my account here?

I haven’t seen ANY improvments over the past days/weeks…. have you?

Sorry people, I must be having hormone problems or something (I’m way past menopause… lol). But I need to rant…

Old JS Memberlist

westy — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:16:45 +0000

Yep, I did it again…. spent too much time trying to help all my JS friends.

Some weeks ago, I started trying to add everyone into an excel spread sheet… not just for your sake, but my own as well. I couldn’t keep track of where everyone went to!

Now I’m sharing the sheet with all of you…. JS Membership New Blog List

It’s in no way complete. Some new blog url’s may already be obsolete, some people I didn’t know and they may now have completely diffent names so it was hard to match. It was also TOO time consuming to go through all the threads of my forum. So PLEASE notify me of any changes to make.

Notify me preferably via pm in my JS Forum, if necessary as a comment here, or as pm at the new JS site.
Sometimes I ask myself why I bother …. it’s not like I don’t have a “real” life!

So, go check it out!

Dorrie

166 Spam comments… uff

westy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:02:46 +0000

Yep, in my comments manager I have 166 spam comments to delete! Oh what fun! I received no mails about them, the system does seem to do a good job of filtering, but I think it’s ridiculous!

Go to your “manage comments” and see if a red number appears above the comment link… click on the number and see all the “lovely” spam.

I’ve pretty well decided to blog at blogspot. I did try importing the last entries here… when I did it the first time it worked, the second time it didn’t. OH, well….

No, I won’t be deleting. I still check here every day to see what’s going on.

So, off I go to delete all those spam…. see ya!

The Legend of the Furies; The Jayesse Saga

westy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:47:00 +0000

Once upon a time there was a well loved land called Jayesse. It was a happy place where people enjoyed sharing each other’s tales.

But then, as often happens, problems and woes arose. The Furies were called upon to save Jayesse, but to no avail… Jayesse as it was no longer exists. They lost to the Peanuts, then they lost to a major desaster….. and the Furies separated to various other lands.

Read about the Tale of the Furies and the Legend of Jayesse….

Once upon a time……

So now I’m the bad guy….

westy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:01:33 +0000

First of all, I changed the layout (or “theme” as it’s called here) since the other one kept repeating the entries. It’ll be nice if this one works better.

So I am now the bad guy…. the one whining and complaining the most about the new journalspace. Eh, pardon me, but I’m at least still here while others have deleted.

It was said that I HATE this new journalspace. Let it be known, I have NEVER said I HATE it…. I just don’t like the format. I already disliked it while experimenting with Wordpress so it wasn’t the newness I didn’t like. I find Blogspot much easier, not only for me, but for all my less computer knowledgable friends.

I was getting used to things here, then lots of spam entries and comments started appearing. The company running this are no beginners… they are a computer website business. As someone said, they should have tested before putting it up. So, when they bought the name journalspace, they seemed to have no practice or experience with this type of site. You try programs out first, then work out any new bugs as they appear.

My forum has been up and running for over 5 years. No, it didn’t show much action except when JS went down. But then it’s just a “Fun Forum”, never intended for serious, continuous use. But it worked. We ended up also having problem with fakes and spammers and tried no security methods which didn’t work. In the background, Wheelie tried a new, up-dated version…

But he didn’t put it online until he was sure it worked properly and all data was transfered!

I was happy to help. That’s me… a helper. I don’t have to, I do have enough things on my plate in “real life”, but I enjoyed doing the forum and being there for everyone.

But now I’m the bad guy…. so be it.

Is it the weekend already?

westy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:15:00 +0000

Well, since today is Friday, I guess it is the weekend. Only problem is, I teach a duty class on Sunday! About 25 people have signed up for it. It means getting some overtime, of course, which is nice.

I’m carefully watching the weather. We have STRONG winds at the moment, especially in the higher elevations (which in my area reach only about 3000 ft. MSL) and ice-rain. The predicted ice-rain for yesterday never came… we had clear blue skies! … goes to show how lousy the weather guessers work. The claim there will be sunshine on Sunday… we shall see.

Tomorrow morning I’m planning to finally visit my son and his family. I’ve been home a whole week already and haven’t seen them! And tomorrow afternoon my daughter may stop by with her gang.

I haven’t been having the urge to write much lately, and I haven’t even felt like reading journals too much. I just somehow can’t get used to not writing on our beloved journalspace. This place without pm and homepage, the new journalspace lots of spam members, comments, and what have you and just not user friendly.

OK, enough whining… outside it’s pouring rain and together with the stormy winds I’m sure glad I can stay home. TV program is boring so maybe I’ll put in a DVD…. or maybe read a book?

Dorrie

Busy day ahead

westy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:26:00 +0000

AS always on Thursdays, I’m going to have a busy day. First of all I have telephone duty, which means I have to stay at the office until 4:30 pm. Since I begin at 07:00, that makes a 9 hour day, with a half-hour lunch break.

After that it’s off to my other dance class. I have to drive about 45 minutes to get there, and afterwards 45 minutes home again, and that in possible forcasted ice-rain! Hopefully not! Last night’s dance class went great… 18 people, with 2 new ones.

Anyway, I won’t be online much until late tonight.

Oooops, time to get going… streets are possibly already slick (it’s -1°C outside).

Don’t forget to go vote in my forum (in the JS chat section).

Dorrie

The new JS… love or leave it?

westy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:10:00 +0000

Over at my Fun Forum I have written an entry about the “new” journalspace.com. I would like to read your opinions on it. More members have deleted today so I think it’s time to see what the general concensus is.

I have also set up a poll about it.

If you’re not a member yet, it’s easy to become one. It may take a while before I can do the manual activation so don’t worry, I’ll get around to it eventually.

I know, I know… I shouldn’t bother with it and I should give them more time, but I see too many of you getting frustrated (like I am).

I’m off to my dance classes now… no time to catch up to all of you, but perhaps later.

Dorrie

Back to normal

westy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:13:03 +0000

copied from my blogger blog…

Back to normal…..my journal here.
The comments now work and I know the trick for fixing it in case it happens again to me or anyone else (thanks Alaskanwarrior!). As you can see, I’ve played around with the layout a bit. Not much…. yet. But you guys know me, soon I’ll be busy being creative.

Back to normal… my work week.
So far it has been without any big problems, but Jerk T. was a jerk once again. If he keeps it up, he’s going to be in for some big trouble. Luckily the big jerk, Jerk D., is retireing in less then 2 months!! yay!

Back to normal… my dance classes.
They start up tomorrow again. I really don’t feel like doing them, but I know they will be fun (great people in them) and they are good excercise for me.

Back to normal… my cat.
She wasn’t mad at me for leaving her for two weeks.

Back to normal… the weather.
It’s been less cold the past days, and today the sun actually was shining, like in Washington, D.C., which I’m watching on German TV while I type.

Back to normal… my blogging.
Hopefully I’ll start up-dating more regularly again. I’ll try to do my best. I’m still jumping around between this one and the one in the “new” JS.

Back to normal… my time schedule.
I’m hungry. I had absolutely NO problem with jet lag! So I better go fix something. It’s almost 06:00 pm my time… inauguration time USA. Poor time to be writing… you are ALL glued to the TV’s, right?

Back to normal…. yep, everything’s back to normal!

Dorrie

Back to normal

westy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Back to normal… my dance classes.
They start up tomorrow again. I really don’t feel like doing them, but I know they will be fun (great people in them) and they are good excercise for me.

Back to normal… my cat.
She wasn’t mad at me for leaving her for two weeks.

Back to normal… the weather.
It’s been less cold the past days, and today the sun actually was shining, like in Washington, D.C., which I’m watching on German TV while I type.

Back to normal… my blogging.
Hopefully I’ll start up-dating more regularly again. I’ll try to do my best. I’m still jumping around between this one and the one in the “new” JS.

Back to normal…. yep, everything’s back to normal!

Dorrie