- Lunch with old friends
- Negative can be positive
- Rainy days
- Clean floors
- Dark chocolate
Gratitude List: February 7, 2012
Aside
Reply
Author Archives: Sylvia Bass
Gratitude List: February 1, 2012
Aside
- Morning cup of tea
- New calendar day (the day I get to flip the calendar to see this month’s artwork)
- Homemade lasagna for lunch
- My own office
- Vegan sneakers on sale
Satisfied Customer (Simple Online Solutions)
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have had a terrible time moving my sites to a different host. My former host and domain registrar, AFMU, got hacked in early December. The only reason I found out is because one of my sites (52drawings) got hacked, too. It was a group drawing blog, so it was more of an annoyance than a real security problem.
However, I have yet to able to get a reply from AFMU. They never notified their customers in any way. They only have an online ticketing system that also went down with the hacking issue. When it came back online only one of my hosts was available and again after numerous attempts to contact them, I still haven’t received any reply. I’m not even sure they’re really in business anymore.
Before they went down completely, I had been able to get some of my domains transferred and pointed to my new hosting provider. However, I still had three stuck in limbo.
Green Smoothies
Is it possible to become addicted to healthy food? I find it odd and kind of amazing that one’s taste palette changes with the food consumed.
If you had told me that I one day I would actually want to drink up blended vegetables and fruit, I would have scoffed. Odd color aside, green smoothies rock! The fruit masks any bitterness of the greens. (Removing the stems from kale also helps.)
I took a short trip after Christmas to visit friends. I found that one of the first things I did when we got home was fire up the Vita-mix and blend up a bunch of kale, oranges, banana, carrots, strawberries and almond milk. If you get the right mix of fruit and vegetables, it tastes like a delicious juice and you feel energized for hours. It’s such a kick that you can get so much nutrition in one glass.
Who knew healthy could taste so good?
You’ve got to keep ‘em separated…
I hate learning lessons the hard way. Recently I learned that it is always best to keep your hosting provider separate from your hosting registrar. As mentioned before, my former host had a major problem in December. Their site was hacked and thus one of my sites was hacked.
All contact for technical support is done online through a system they took down for two weeks. Not that it mattered as they haven’t responded to trouble tickets or emails at all.