Throwing in the sponge.

Having to move my website from MobileMe to MacHighway has proved a disaster (See November 21st and June 8th). The site is still unreachable from my domain name and, even worse, many of the pages are published minus their photographs or fail to appear on the site at all. So my posts will appear here in future, and I will gradually add the past posts which were on my website prior to the move.

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Update.

All the dayboys came over for the October sagra: Jane in late September, the Cairns on the 7th October and the Rogers a couple of days previously. The weather deteriorated on the 7th and the Saturday of the festa was cold. The Sunday was even worse with strong winds which blew over many of the stalls. As a consequence the festa was poorly attended.

Pat had an uneventful trip to England to see Candy and Quinn from the 17th to the 24th October. I went across to the UK on the 11th November to attend the Old Elizabethans’ Bristol dinner staying with Mike Jefferies. I met Winkle Perham (see photo above) and Umpter Northover again for the first time in fifty years. Unlike previous years, I flew directly to Bristol from Fiumicino rather than from Ancona to Stansted. The carrier was Easy Jet, a pleasant change from Ryan Air. The price quoted was the price charged - it included taxes and booking fee, rather than these being added to the theoretical fare; there was no weight limit on hand luggage; and the extra 5cm allowed enabled me to take a suit carrier, thus avoiding a checked-in case. The downside was having to drive to Rome: ok going there, but a nightmare journey back in the dark with the Sat-nav playing up.


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Reconstruction.

Apple having decided to scrap MobileMe and with it its web hosting service I had to find a new home for this site. After much research I eventually settled on MacHighway which advertises itself as Mac friendly. I signed up with them on the 14th October. Last night  - after almost six weeks of frustration - I finally managed to get some of the site loaded and accessible via Google using the site’s MacHighway address:

 http://terri.machighway.com/~jamesric/The_Pool_of_Narcissus/Welcome.html

However,  my domain name - www.jamesrichards.eu - is still not working.

   Even worse all my blog entries disappeared . I was able to recover them via Apple’s Time Machine but am having to reconstruct them and repost them - a job which will take several weeks.

   I read recently that Blaise Pascal claimed all human misfortunes come from man’s inability to sit still in a room. You’d have thought that Steve Jobs’s Buddhism might have encouraged him to do so, rather than scrapping MobileMe and thereby turning my life into a misery!