One BUSY Day at the Office
Yesterday a number of things came to a head at the office.
1. The data recovery I’d started for our Director here at WTM on Friday, finally finished. We had to put the hard drive from his bad laptop into my laptop (which often crashes), and then using a Knoppix CD, I was able to upload the files he wanted saved to one of my websites. From there I downloaded it to my main desktop computer. Tomorrow we will format and load his new laptop and add his old files that I recovered. Jondalar had already worked on this for two weeks, so this is quite a victory.
2. I got this next issue of Reflections ready to print, including some last minute corrections. This is the quarterly newsletter of which I am the layout editor and key writer.
3. In the morning I discovered that Ginny Dye has stopped - ended - MyPowerMall. I saw a video last week in which she hinted at this, so I wasn’t totally wiped off my feet, but I had been working on a new site that would drive a lot of traffic to MPM and that is now stopped in its tracks too. I should be able to shift gears, but I’m glad I haven’t lost more than a couple of months work on that. It was foundational though, to a huge dream I had of helping non-profits. I guess lots of people signed up but only a handful were really shopping online through the mall.
This means I’ll have to go through a lot of my sites to remove those MPM links. Hopefully I can find something else to replace them so I don’t have to go through those motions twice.
4. Last week I’d received a letter from Betty, a client, whose prolife website I was hosting. They had moved as a family to follow her husband to a new job. They are in a place in Mississippi where she can’t get phone or internet access. Her domain had gone down for lack of registration renewal. Since I couldn’t reach her any other way, I wrote to her, and yesterday she got to a phone and called me. We worked out a plan whereby I would register a similar domain name, and set up what I have as a backup to her site. I managed to get that done yesterday yet. The site still needs fine-tuning as some of the links don’t work, but if you had been looking for or linking to http://children-of-the-heart.net you need to change that now to http://Children-of-the-Heart.com (one that had not been available to her a few years ago when she first started her site).