According to the geek test, I'm geekier than Ted, who pointed me there in the first place.
I come up 27.0217%, a Total Geek. However, that score is skewed...females automatically get an extra five "yes" answers by virture of being female. Now, I'll concede that role playing games and science fiction (I was young!) contribute to my geekdom, but being a woman doesn't. I think it saves me, actually. It oughta be minus five...
But anyway, I am not a total geek. If I were, I would have been able to figure out the Magic Box curse of the week:
I get home Friday and can not get to my web pages. I assume the server is down, so I e-mail my host, which is in Texas.
Server's fine. They can get to my domain fine. Suggest I try another ISP.
I dial up on my old ISP and lo, there's my site.
Now I blame the ISP. Except when I call a friend on the same ISP, he can get to my site no problem. He suggests releasing and refreshing my IP address, and pinging and route-tracing and some other things that I only barely get, because I am only a poseur geek. No dice.
I start to take it personally that I can get to every site in the world except mine, and everyone on the Internet except me can get to my site. I get cranky. I go to bed.
Saturday morning the problem has not spontaneously resolved.
I have to turn it over to Victor, the King Geek (who is such a Pure Geek that he couldn't even be bothered to take the Geek Test because it was "too long"). He fiddles with "firmware" or something on the wireless network, and I can get to my domain again.
It's wireless. It's invisible. It's the @#$%^&* Magic Box and it has beaten me again.
Posted by Nic at November 8, 2003 11:25 PM | TrackBack