No joy in Mudville . . .
Today, instead of working on my marking or on the kids' PowerPoints, I made the mistake of tinkering with an old post to try to resize it to fit the Posterous page design. Deep down I felt it would be a mistake to tamper with a functioning embedded item when I started, but I decided to tempt fate, and today this blogger has struck out.
The WIX post from September 17 --> http://bigreturns.posterous.com/back-to-school-5 no longer displays on my computer when I'm in Firefox. It worked fine early this morning, but I had to try something new and now I get a big blank space where once a beautiful Wix page was displayed. Even today's post was supposed to be in my normal font, but that did not take either when the post went up -- except fora few lines near the bottom.
" Oh somwhere in this favored land, the sun is shining bright
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville— mighty Casey has struck out."
I find these kinds of days exasperating, very tiring, and demoralizing. I tried upgrading to Firefox 3 to see if that was the problem, but -- no. It still did not work, and neither did FF3. It crashed 4 times in less than an hour (once before it had even launched the first time and once after I had closed it down!) so I had to uninstall that and go back to FF2. When I tried to reboot the computer after the uninstall, it almost did not come back to me (took more than 5 tries!!!). My computer is now not the same old girl. For example, some of the familiar icons at the top of the page have gone missing, and when I try to open a link in an email, I get this lovely message:
There is no system administrator -- or at least I am it.
A little glimmer of relief: I figured out how to get the links to open in my emails. I right clicked somewhere and a box magically opened that allowed me to reset the default browser to FF. I guess when I uninstalled, that box was emptied. Where that box hides, I have no idea, but one appearance and one correction was all I needed.
QUESTION: How do I get that WIX to reappear when browsing in FF? Is anyone out there able to see it? If yes, please reply via comments, giving details about your browser and any settings you have had to apply to get it to come up. If not, try looking at the same post in Internet Explorer. It's really worth a look! Will I sleep soundly until I figure out the problem -- probably not. The conumdrum will taunt me until an answer is forthcoming, so I could really use some help here!!!!! NQ.
