Upcoming Historical Romance Wiki Firefox Fix

I got an e-mail this morning from a reader who couldn't access any of the links on my Upcoming Historical Romances wiki. It looked fine on my end, so I took to Twitter and voila! Sure enough, the problem seems to occurring with Firefox. In a nutshell? Because I'm too cheap to pay for the wiki service, y'all get bombarded with advertising on the side bar, along the top of the page etc. It's an ad that is causing the glitch making my wonderful wiki unusable. Here's a fix that worked for me, and hopefully it will work for you too.

Open up Firefox. Under the Tools menu, click on Add-Ons. That will bring up a separate window. Along top, choose the Get Add-Ons button. There you should find an add-on called Adblock Plus. Install that. Viola! The links on my wiki should start working again.

If that doesn't do it for you? Sigh. Hopefully Wetpaint is working on the issue, and everything seems to be peachy using Internet Explorer. Sorry for the inconvenience folks!

It Came To This

Yes, it came to this. After almost 7 years of having the Bat Cave at my original blog, the issues with Hughesnet prompted me to start from scratch. Sort of.

I know it's a colossal pain in the ass to change links and RSS Feeds, but honestly? It's one minor inconvenience compared to an entire ISP not being able to access the awesomeness that is the Bat Cave. When you look at it like that, it really wasn't much of a choice.

The good news is that I have migrated my entire archive, so all the glorious wonderful content is now here. Also, I have plans to keep up the "old" blog indefinitely because I know a ton of you have linked to individual posts I've done over the years, and broken links give us all a sad.

On the bright side, my URL makes more sense now. No more pesky underscore to try and remember. And really, doesn't "Wendy the Super Librarian" just have more of a ring to it?

So sit back, relax, and enjoy. Oh, and welcome Hughesnet people!

Barely Housebroken Monkeys On Typewriters

It's days like this that I wish I married a geek.

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, it has come to my attention that Hughesnet hates librarians. Well, that's not fair. They just hate me. Turns out some of you using Hughesnet for an ISP cannot "see" the Bat Cave. You can "see" me using your Google Reader. You can "see" me when you pull up a cached page of my blog. What you apparently cannot do is come directly to my site, read all the scintillating ramblings and leave comments.

You get a 505 DNS error, or some variation of that.

To add to the frustration? One Hughesnet user has reported to me that they can see other blogs hosted by Blogger/Blogspot. They just can't "see" me.

It's very frustrating. And like all free services, I'd have better luck finding the Holy Grail than uncovering an e-mail or phone contact for Google/Blogger.

Bugger.

But I'm working on it. And also throwing myself on the mercy of the Blogosphere. Any bright ideas? Hughesnet has been contacted and they say they're communicating with Blogger just dandy. Plus, these people can "see" other Blogger blogs....just not me.

I can't decide if this gives me a sad, or makes me Hulk-like angry. Probably a little bit of both. Wendy mad! Wendy smash!