.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

I am being held captive at the moment, so cannot blog. A has posted this message for me in an appeal for help. HELLPPPPPPPPP!!! Bring me back to blogland!

OK, so that's partly a lie. A *has* posted this message for me (I emailed it to her), but I'm not really being held captive. Feels like it, though!

Basically I am having DNS problems with my internet service provider, who are basically the most unhelpful people in the world, and are SO gonna get a complaints letter in the post in January - luckily, I have too much work and stuff to do right now to think about it yet.

This DNS problem means that I cannot see certain random websites:
* Including many of my favourite websites.
* Including my Moveable Type account (the thing I use to write blog postings).
* Also including A's blog, deaf-blogs.com and MY OWN BLOG!

I am powerless. I cannot see SHD! I cannot do parts of my work! I cannot upload my special festive Christmas blog header! I cannot delete my stupid spam comments! Agh! And above all, I am seething because I cannot type a Things That Annoy Me post when I really, really need to do it the most ever! *SCREAMS*

But I CAN blog via A, however, or so it seems. This is a very strange thing indeed - typing words that I will not be able to see online - I'm not entirely sure why I even want to do this, but I do realise that the simple act of typing this blog/email/rant has made me feel better in itself, which can only be a good thing, right?

SIGH.

And if any smart arse wants to suggest ways to sort this stupid problem out, please do feel free to suggest your suggestions (at least the comments on this blog get emailed to me so I'll be able to read them(!)). I have emailed my ISP at least five times, opened three support tickets and phoned them once. The latest report is that the problem is with people in a dept who aren't allowed to communicate with customers directly. And everyone else is asleep (probably).

AGH.

No point wasting energy on this. I have other things to do, so I had better go and do them. Hopefully I'll be able to upload my festive header at some point BEFORE Christmas(!)

So now you know what is what, if you wondered where I am (or if you didn't).

j xx