503′s and even more convinced to move

Feb 8, 2012 ~ filed under: Blog & English ~ 0 comments »

I also get a lot of these with my hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’.

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable.

Argh…always when you need the site to work…it doesn’t. As if I don’t already feel I am cut off with GoDaddy and Wildblue. Thank you very much for making my life even harder.

I never had problems with my previous hosting provider (all-inkl.com) in Germany, but oh well; they didn’t accept to pay via paypal and that’s why I am now stuck with less good options in the same price level – like (m)ass-hosting providers.

P.S. Don’t forget to vote (in the sidebar). Thank you!

Blog on the move (EN-DE)

Feb 7, 2012 ~ filed under: Blog & Deutsch & English ~ 0 comments »

EN
If you are a regular reader you might have noticed that the quantity of posts has picked up. – Yes, I missed blogging and have spent way too much time in other networks that start with F and finish with book. I realized that I am way happier when I blog instead of wasting time on F-book. So, I closed my account and returned to my blog, which will be seven (7!) this year!

One reason why I haven’t been blogging very often in the last few months is that, back in Australia I was way too busy with my 3 jobs, and later even just with that one job. I also thought I don’t have much to talk about. Now here in the US, I have difficulties blogging from home, because our internet provider (Wildblue) plus my hosting provider (godaddy) plus being on a Mac means I cannot access my blog; it is literally not there. I get an empty page. Strange, but true. So, I have to take my blog to another internet spot in town (hej, we live in the country at the moment…) to be able to blog.

I wanted to wait it out until we move to an area with better conditions, but as you may know, I’m too impatient. If I’m not on facebook any longer, I want to fill my blog with stories. Therefore I decided to MOVE my blog to a new provider. I decided to move my domain to namecheap.com and my hosting to…probably either hostgator.com or inmotion hosting.

My blog might not be reachable for some time, but downtime should be minimal.

Soon more from missycola and her life on the colaplanet. Yay!

DE
Die regelmaessigen Leser haben es wahrscheinlich schon bemerkt; es gibt wieder mehr zu lesen auf planetcola.com. Ja, das liegt daran, dass ich gemerkt habe, dass ich viel zu viel Zeit im F-Book verbracht habe und somit habe ich es einfach mal zugemacht, das F-Buch. Ich habe gemerkt, dass mit das Bloggen fehlt und dass es mir viel mehr Spass macht als das stundenlange “Zeitvergeuden” auf z.B. jenem F-Book, von daher bin ich nun zurueck in meinem kleinen feinen Blog, dass dieses Jahr schon sieben (7!) Jahre alt wird.

Ein Grund warum ich in den letzten Monaten so wenig geschrieben habe, ist, dass ich in Australien mit 3 Jobs, und selbst nachher mit nur einem Job einfach nicht die Zeit gefunden habe, nebenbei noch zu bloggen. Jetzt in den USA ist es mir von zu Hause nicht moeglich zu bloggen, da ich mit Wildblue (Internetanbieter) + GoDaddy (Webseitenbetreiber) + Mac keine Verbindung zu meiner Webseite bekomme. Klingt eigenartig, ist aber so, und auch bekannt. (Natuerlich streiten beide Parteien alles ab.)
Somit muss ich mein Mac Laptop immer ins naechste Dorf schleppen, um dort das Internet zu nutzen, bzw. mein Blog zu beschreiben.

Das hat jetzt ein Ende! Nein, meine Geduld ist nun zu Ende!
Ich ziehe um…vielmehr mein Blog. Die Domain zieht um zu namecheap.com und der neue hosting Anbieter wird entweder hostgator oder inmotion hosting. Zuallererst zieht aber nur die Domain um.

Es kann also in den kommenden Tagen passieren, dass das Blog zeitweilig nicht erreichbar ist.

Aber keine Sorge, denn ich bin bald wieder (und dann uneingeschraenkt) da, juchee!
(klopft mal auf Holz fuer mich; ich hab hier grad nix greifbar; danke!)

A new cola-poll that seeks answers!

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Dear blog readers,
it has been a (long) while, but I’ve just started a poll in my sidebar and would be grateful if you could stop by (if you read this in a feed reader) to leave your vote.
Thanks, gracias, and danke!

DE
Meine lieben Blogleser,
Es ist schon sehr lange her, dass es hier in meinem Blog eine Umfrage gab, aber ich habe soeben eine neue Umfrage gestartet und wuerde mich freuen, wenn Du kurz vorbeisurfst (falls Du dies grad im feedreader liest) und Deine Stimme abgibst.

Thanks, gracias, and danke!

missy-in-a-new-mission-to-defeat-facebook (and write more HERE!)

Loving the US

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and especially Maine for this:

Sweet potato fries with ketchup (tomato sauce for Australians) and mayonnaise (typical German I guess).

Even better than chocolate; can you believe?
Oh, when did I have chocolate last? Can’t even remember…missycola is on a new health plan.

Australia Influenced

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Why do men never listen?

We are at the beach, mr.Natey and I and a few other people we don’t know. There are quite a few people in the water, but somehow I don’t feel comfortable. Not only because it’s winter. No, something isn’t right.

All of a sudden I see shadows in the water. They are about an arm length long and quickly moving. Sharks?

I am pretty sure, but mr.Natey doesn’t think so. He wants to go into the water. I say “Please don’t go, there are sharks in there.” He’s going a step forward and I’m now whining: “Please don’t go. I promise you I’ll cook you dinner every night until the rest of your day, but please don’t go into the water!” I’m totally frightened, but mr.Natey thinks I’m overreacting, as so often.

Then I’m going a few steps back and see all those sharks lined up on the shore. They are standing on their back-fin and they organized themselves from small shark on the left to humongous and extremely large (2-story-house tall) on the right. A line of about 6 sharks, all shapes and sizes. They are kind of smiling at me and the other people at the beach.

Nathan, oh why, is going towards the shore and is lining up next to the largest shark with his back to the ocean. He’s like “Look at me, I’m not afraid, I can even stand next to the biggest sharks and it’s all fine.”

Then, all of a sudden, the humongous shark smirks and swings his left fin, which is about the size of an American-sized van, and hits and pushes (or rather smashes) mr.Natey way far away into the deep and dark ocean. No one would survive that hit. Not even a mr.Natey “hero”.

Why do men never listen to their missy?

[image by C.Haugen]