I have followed their installation instructions TO THE T a half-dozen times now and this is as close as I can get to a working networked backup drive. See all those folders on “The Internet”? Well, they’re NOT on “The Internet” … they are right here on this side of my router (physically AND logically), plugged directly into the same router as this laptop is using.

And I don’t have permission to use them. Attempts to open the folders (which I was able to do when the drive was directly connected to my laptop via a x-over cable) are met with a notice that I don’t have permission to open them … to speak with my system administrator.

I –AM- the system administrator and I know for a fact that I haven’t locked anybody or anything out of that drive!

Additionally, the error message Windows give me is “Network path not found.”

So, if it can’t find the network path, how in the Charles Dickens does it know to show the stinking icons?

Grrrrrrr!

This is the second drive Amazon has sent me and, I have to confess, I’ve gotten further along this time than last, but I didn’t pay good money to LOOK at the drives, I paid good money to bloody-well USE them.

This drive is supposed to show up as a drive letter. It does not. This screen is the result of clicking on “Network Places”.

Although I suspect that Iomega makes quality hardware, something is well and truly messed up with the installation software for their 1TB “Home Media Network Drive”.

I’m sending this one back to Amazon, too.

As far as I am concerned, everything I needed for a successful installation should have been packaged with the drive. The ‘Quick Start” installation notes simply are not enough to install the drive on my system. Nor have I gained all that much for spending well over two hours with (purported) tech support.

I think that I could assign the drive a static IP … if I could find its MAC address somewhere. It’s not to be found on the device itself.

But what, I want to know, would a person with even less techie know-how than I do?

Kerplop … back to the self-support forums, the fly-by-night “live” support and maybe, if I feel like jousting all night, even to the voice support.

How does that go … “Up all night, got demons to fight”?

This is an actual ‘tweet’ from Twitter yesterday. Just another example of your donations at work, folks … keep those ‘love donations’ coming in! (After all, the west wing of ‘the parsonage’ needs a larger pool.)

@kevinhash is grateful for some unexpected donations @burtonmemorial yesterday.   One step closer to getting that jacuzzi in the parsonage.

Not certain how the ‘pastor’ intends to save souls with the Jacuzzi (Jesus didn’t even have a place to lay his head) … but then, I don’t donate to any of the basket-shaking, bucket-rattling, ATM-in-the-foyer-having, box of code-numbered-envelopes-in-January kind of religions.

I used to. But I’m over that now.

Click here to read on, my friend.

It’s 2 am and the meds that were supposed to knock me out like a light by 10 pm have worn off without ever incurring much more than a yawn or two.

Now what?

Might as well StumbleUpon the web. Right?

Found this little gem a few minutes ago.  Good music to listen to while you wait for your meds to kick in, too.

Click here to read on, my friend.

Right now you can fly from Detroit to Aruba (1 stop in Charlotte, NC) on US Air for about $475, round trip per person and stay in an apartment in Aruba for about the price of a modest motel room in Toledo, Oh. Get hold of Stanley Kemp at A1 Apartments in Aruba (his web site does not reflect the 14 units he recently added) and demand that he find you a good room at a good price … and no more than walking distance from the casinos, dining and ocean, please. As one of the last few people in the world with enough money to take a vacation (lots of people have plenty of time), it’s your right to enjoy every minute of all 336 hours in a two week vacation!

So go have some fun, eh?

Click here to read on, my friend.

"If the Kingdom of God is not large numbers of Christian converts who attend church meetings, what is it? Once it is established, how should it be governed?"

This question was asked on What is the Kingdom of God? – ChristianityUnplugged.NET http://bit.ly/nVmsj , a site I encountered when researching my surname on Twitter.

Here is my response, as posted in Eric’s page.

Click here to read on, my friend.