Nixta Sinks

Woe #1: Migrating my e-mail proved technically simple to achieve, but nightmarishly hard to persuade myself of success because GMail and Hotmail were both playing up yesterday. I still seem to get e-mails with varying delay, but all my tests that I personally send arrive immediately. Grrrrr.

Woe #2: Blogger.com decides to prevent me from venting my pulsating spleen. With only the most criptic of error messages ("Our technical staff have been informed") I am allowed for 30 minutes only to post to How It Happened (which, Dr. R. will be happy to know, I refrained from doing).

Woe #3: Hotmail have now, in synchronization with upping my limits to 250Mb (though only on all accounts I have opened in the last 2 years, not on my age-old workhorse of nixta1), blocked access via Outlook or Outlook Express for non-paying subscribers! Although I'm a capitalist pig at heart, this riles me no end. Hotmail, which I've subscribed to since before MS got their paws on it (but not quite as long as nixta@hotmail.com has, apprently!), should not be restricted this way! Gah! Wah! Pah! How will I keep nixtaman, nicholasfurness, nobbycathcart, and winkywankywoozleberry active without Outlook to "touch" them from time to time? See bottom of this page.

Woe #4: In advance. Slashdot will no doubt not post my notification of this change. They never post anything I send them, the cliquey sodomites (well, some of them are sodomites). [And yes, it was rejected - I suppose blasting MS is no longer good enough, you have to have SCO and Linux in there somewhere for it to count... It's like those moving goalposts the US wanted for their World Cup thingamajig].