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Welcome back and welcome

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Two things happened yesterday.

The first is that I finally finished a course of antibiotics.  These were two huge capsules I had to swallow four times a day for the last two weeks.  It was a pain in the neck.  Literally.  They kept getting stuck halfway down which meant drowning them [and me] with large quantities of liquid.  I told Herself that whiskey was the man for the job but she didn’t believe me.  She never does.

They didn’t work.

I still have that damned infection up my nose which is a weird place to have an infection in the first place.  It gives me headaches and occasionally pours like a tap so I have to wander around with a slab of kitchen paper at hand.  It also feels like I have brambles stuck up my nostrils which is a little annoying.

The second event is somewhat more satisfying.

Some time ago I stuck that little “Get notified of new Scribbles” thing at the top right hand corner.  Rather surprisingly some people liked this and the list of subscribers grew.  There are several hundred subscribers now.

I use a plugin called “Icegram Express” to do the work for me.  I post a scribble and it gets to work spewing out emails all over the place.  It does the job in batches to prevent overloading the boiler in the engine room.  It takes over two hours to send them all off.  Well, it did until the end of last month when it suddenly stopped for no apparent reason.

I spent several days torturing the site and trying everything I could think of to find the fault.  Some of you may have noticed all my “Please ignore” scribbles during this period while I was testing things?  I even set up a duplicate site to test things.

In the end I contacted Icegram and explained the problem in detail.  I had a sneaking feeling they would come back and tell me it was something what I done, but they didn’t.  They set to work on it and apparently found the problem as the next thing I knew, they released an update for all their subscribers.  Kudos to Icegram!  I was more than impressed, especially as I was using the free version.

Yesterday I posted a little brainfart and off went the plugin merrily farting out the emails again.

So welcome back to all my old subscribers.

And welcome, to all those who subscribed this month!

 

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Welcome back and welcome — 8 Comments

  1. Good to see that your notifications are working again. I just arrived here by way of your latest email so kudos to Icegram Express for actually providing customer support, such support is as rare as hen’s teeth these days. Have you considered fitting safety valves to the boilers in the engine room?

    • I posted my little problem in Icegram’s WordPress Forum and was surprised that they answered so quickly. They gave me a contact email and immediately got to work. I thought they would find that it was something I had done but it transpired to be an actual plugin fault. An update was supplied to their 100,000+ users and here I am back on line. To say I was impressed is a gross understatement.

      Safety valves are for wimps.

      • Some years ago I was working in Lisbon and I was contacted by a sugar company from the UK who had just bought a sugar refinery situated a little way up the river Tagus. This refinery had 2 decent sized boilers to generate steam for the refining process and superheated steam to drive two turbo alternators which provided electrical power to the plant. The new owner’s representative on site was not too happy with the state of the boilers and I was asked to survey the boilers and associated gear. On day one whilst doing an initial walk around to to define all the opening up needed I saw that the safey valves were just a solid lump of rust. When I asked the boiler operator why they were like this he answer was that they never used them (for wimps as you say). The idea that they were there for a reason and might be needed one day had never occurred to anyone in the refinery. Much work was done on these boilers before they went back into service.

        • I vaguely remember reading a book back in the ’60s where there was an account of a locomotive exploding here in Wicklow. I think there were a few casualties as the train was stopped at a station. It transpired that it was common practice to screw down the safety valves in order to increase pressure in the boiler. Obviously it worked…..

    • A weird looking yoke! I did a little investigation –
      Suitable for

      Hayfever, Nasal Allergies and Sinus Pressure.
      Catarrh, Post Nasal Drip and Nasal Congestion.
      Nasal Irritation from animal dander, pollen, dust mites, house dust, occupational dust, fumes and smoke.

      Sadly I don’t fall under any of those as mine is an infection of some kind.

      I suppose I could rinse with Dettol or drain cleaner?

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