December 28, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

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November 16, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

During the last 24 hours the website of Fathers for Life experienced a few problems. They appear to be fixed now, but I would not bet my life on that.

It all started on Nov 12th, when Symantec Service Framework crashed every time I tried to download e-mail.  SSF worked fine, as long as I did not try to download e-mail messages.  Of course, I had to shut down my machine every time and reboot it, so to get SSF going again.

There was obviously a problem that a software update would fix.  That was the very first thing I tried, but there were no updates.  There were no updates in the morning.

I contacted Symantec for a chat session.  The technician was so kind as to give me a contact number, so that she would be able to set up remote control for my machine.  Unfortunately, she signed off, before I had a chance to tell her that the error message telling me that SSF abended showed up every time I downloaded e-mail, that therefore there was no use telling me the contact number via e-mail.

Of course, I checked Webmail, but before I had that going, the chat connection could no longer be reset, and there were now about 50 people ahead of me in the queue.

I knew that I would not be able to stay alert long enough to do things right anyway.   So I caught up on some of the sleep I had missed.

It took about three hours before a new chat session was set up again and I got a new technician.  The first thing he did was to download software updates, of whom there now were some.  He got them installed, and I was able to download e-mail again without Norton AV abending.

Unfortunately, I did not realize it at the time, there was now a problem with uploading web pages for all of the websites I am running, including the website of Fathers for Life.  It is not clear whether those problems were caused by trying to fix SSF.  Still, it was quite clear that I no longer could use my web editor to upload new or edited web pages.

I tried to circumvent that but should have known better.  If only I would have waited for those problems to clear.  Nothing I tried worked, and I caused a few problems that put all of my websites out of commission.

In the end, I got those problems fixed, got all of the websites uploaded again, and - low and behold - all of the uploading problems I had prior to that were gone - and not because I did anything to address those problems.  I have no clue what happened and who has done it.

At any rate, things are back to normal, and now I need to check what e-mail messages need looking after.

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May 27, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

The top-ten key-word searches:

1. kilauren gibb
2. joni mitchell daughter
3. erin pizzey
4. international suicide rates
5. suicide rates in canada
6. joni mitchell’s daughter
7. radical feminism
8. fatherlessness
9. taboo porn
10. world suicide rates

The top-ten most-often visited web pages:

1. Anorexia Nervosa : Changing Ideal of Beauty or insane Obsession?
2. Suicide rates in countries throughout the world
3. Welcome to Fathers for Life
4. Children of Divorce & Separation — Statistics
5. Population pyramids for selected countries in the regions of the world
6. Family Violence — Main Page
7. Canada Suicides
8. USA Suicide Deaths 1979 to 1996
9. The reunion of Joni Mitchell and her daughter Kilauren Gibb
10. USA Population Figures for the Years 1980 to 1996

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