Archive for October, 2007
I use Yahoo! mail - my main email is a yahoo account, all of my domain-based email accounts are routed to Yahoo!, along with my email accounts I have through my clients’ businesses.
And Yahoo! is down.
Yesterday morning, a bright red error message appeared on my screen:
Unusual Activity Detected
To protect you, your account has been suspended from sending, saving, and receiving mail for up to 48 hours
I panicked. I can’t be without email for 48 hours - I run my business through my email account! So after searching through the site for almost 15 minutes, I found a phone number. Not one for customer support, but one for copyright issues. At this point, any number would do.
Finally connected with someone who theoretically could help, she told me she was sorry for the inconvenience and I would just have to wait until my email was back up.
Huh??
So I called back. This woman was much more helpful and explained that there was a bug in the Yahoo system and it had been there since Sunday. The engineers were aware of it and were working on it (remember, this was Tuesday). Evidently it is a roaming bug and hit different accounts at different times. Relieved that this was not an issue with my particular account, I prepared to be patient and work around my yahoo account as much as I could yesterday.
My fabulous assistant Sandy, who is more of a night owl than me, IM’d at 4 this morning and said “Yaaa Hooo! Yahoo is back up!”
And it was - for a few hours. Now I have that bright red message on my screen again:
Unusual Activity Detected
To protect you, your account has been suspended from sending, saving, and receiving mail for up to 48 hours
Anyone else having trouble?
Dina at Wordfeeder.com Copywriting and Marketing decided to share the fun and tagged me for a 7 Things meme. So here we go… 7 Things You May Not Know About Me.
1. I love to travel. I’ve only been to 26 states (will be 27 next week) and 7 countries - and I want the list to grow. Actually, I’d like to be a global nomad, living a few months here and a few months there. Have laptop… will travel.
2. I met my husband on a blind date, set up by his dad. Thanks Pops!
3. We homeschool our children. We started when our oldest started kindergarten and he is now in the National Honor Society in college. He’ll be transferring to Texas A&M in January.
4. I’m somewhat of a genealogy buff. I’m a direct descendant of Charlemagne and William Brewster (of Mayflower fame). I’m also related to William Pitt (Prime Minister of England) and Francis Drake.
5. My all-time favorite song is What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.
6. I was Editor-in-Chief of my high school yearbook.
7. I really am Peggy Sue.
If you’ve not watched this video, it’s well-worth the 1.5 hours. Carnegie-Mellon Professor Randy Pausch was diagnosed last month with pancreatic cancer. Given a remaining three to six months of good health, this lecture is a poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes funny, inspiring look at his life. Here’s the video. Thanks Chris, for passing it along.
