Reading your comment was a MOST pleasant start to this Christmas Eve day, thank you very much!

And you’re so right about levity trumping adversity. I see no other choice. If we got cheesed about every bump in the road or cried over every wrong-doing, there’d be no end to anger and sadness in this very strange world.

Your story too is a great example of how to trump adversity. Look ahead, see the signs and rather than fear or get angry about the apparently dismal prospects, you’re off and to the races. Awesome! Everyone should be so proactive.

So, a great big thanks to Melissa for sending you our way and here’s wishing you a very happy holiday and prosperous 2009 with your new Site Buildit! site and upcoming blog.

Cheers,
Ros

A fudge bar sounds good although I’d rather have chips or Hickory sticks. Gee, how come it seems like all my favorite snacks seem to be computer related?

Ros

It’s cold this winter, to be sure. Things seem to be up and running all round again. I’m just in the process of confirming that’s the case.

Thanks kindly for the offer. Will let you know. In the meantime, enjoy the warmth down there in Mexico and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Cheers,
Ros

I followed your reply from my inbox back to your site. I am glad you enjoyed my story.

Do not pay any attention to my ilk. Programming is an unnatural act—like Black Magic, best left to Necromancers and Alchemists. “Bleep” happens, and at the worst possible time, and in the worst possible way—a variation on Finagle’s law. (End-user rule: If the bleep hits the fan, blame the bleep on the bleep that originally compiled the bleep—and especially, blame the bleep responsible for the “user-friendly” point-and-click simplicity listed in the Manual that shipped with the bleep.)

I am only joking, of course. Levity trumps adversity. You are a perfect example. A dear friend Melissa Taylor, who posts on your blog occasionally, recommended you—urged, menacing, “Art, you got to read her book and visit her site, now!” since I voiced curiosity and a search for information on how to generate additional income at home online. (I am a network administrator and chief programmer for a major online player. Downsizing cut my department to a point, as I believe, that we can barely operate. Most of our work, now outsourced to independents on the cheap, is a harbinger of more “bleep” to come—and sooner than later. My contract expires in a couple of months, and I am not optimistic.)

I bought Site Build It!—after reading your review. I also plan to host a blog on my own server to support my main website. I spent the last few weeks studying your offering. In conclusion and by my assessment, you truly enjoy what you do, and it shows—no hype, no pressure. You genuinely care for your member subscribers. Melissa was right; you are, in deed, one-of-a-kind and second to none.

Art

Knowing about tar balls, shell scripts or cron jobs is not a requirement for getting things done, since there are administrators who handle that part of the process. Having a cron job is work, not none that site owners have to do. The software does it for you. So when a non-systems admin jokes about cron jobs being work, it is just that, a joke. Laugh at it. Enjoy it, because those who need to know, already do.

Even hard-core systems admins make mistakes, fix them, learn from them and move on without ridicule.

So, who wants a fudge bar?

Glad I checked in here! I just tried to get on the forum and was left standing out in the cold, LOL!

Sorry to hear more problems abound, but know that all will be well in the end!

If there’s anything I can help with, I’m available!

~(G)Q

Thanks very much for your comment and kind remarks.

As for doing everything right and still having things go wrong, we’re getting a real good tast of that today.

UGH.

Ros

Thanks kindly for the vote of confidence!!

Cheers,
Ros