Well, that was fun.<\/p>\n
Yesterday morning my e-mail program, The Bat<\/a>, locked up, giving me the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.<\/p>\n I had downloaded on Thursday the latest upgrade and installed it over my current version. Through Thursday and Friday everything was fine. But not Saturday.<\/p>\n Note to self: Leave well enough alone. If it works, it will probably keep<\/i> working.<\/p>\n Fortunately, Ritlabs had an earlier version of the program available on the website. I downloaded that in an effort to “roll back” the mistake I’d made in upgrading the software.<\/p>\n No dice. The program still<\/i> locked up.<\/p>\n This called for radical surgery.<\/p>\n I copied the important files out of the Bat program directories–important message bases, particularly my Sent Items, my taglines file, and my address books–and nuked the program off the hard drive.<\/p>\n Reinstalling the program was a snap. I took putting the pieces back slowly, though. Copy the address books to the proper directories and restart the program. Copy one message folder and restart the program. Finally, everything worked.<\/p>\n I didn’t save everything. Some message folders I hadn’t looked at in months, and they’ve now gone the way of the dodo.<\/p>\n Rebuilding my message templates may take some time. And I need to find my registration codes for the program, but I have a few weeks in which to do that.<\/p>\n Oi!<\/p>\n My friend Todd Kogutt<\/a>, better known in ‘Net circles as Scavenger, sent me the soundtrack for the Paul McGann Doctor Who<\/i> telefilm this week. It’s a fantastic score by the Johns Debney and Sponsler and Louis Febre, though in places it’s too lushly romantic to have a Doctor Who<\/i> feel. Debney managed to do something I long thought impossible–take the Ron Grainer Doctor Who<\/i> theme and put a symphonic spin on it through horns and percussion. Usually when you think of Doctor Who<\/i> music it’s of electronic noise, but this CD clocks in at an impressive fifty minutes of scored, orchestrated music for a roughly ninety minute film. Great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, that was fun. Yesterday morning my e-mail program, The Bat, locked up, giving me the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. I had downloaded on Thursday the latest upgrade and installed it over my current version. Through Thursday and Friday everything was fine. But not Saturday. Note to self: Leave well enough alone. If itContinue reading “E-mail woes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4082,441,4098],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-doctor-who","tag-e-mail","tag-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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