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That can definitely be a problem, Karen. Admittedly, my own procedures would have kept the drama from the exploration and bore the readers. Still, a minimum of security is a good thing.

But, site security is one thing - personal security is another. If you were to set out some sort of warning fences (laser/infrared/etc) that can simply warble "something's coming", then that doesn't impact any single person. By personal, I mean things like making sure that they carry a firearm even if it is packed in a backpack (not very useful there in a hurry, I agree). Heck, even pepper spray sometimes works on bears.

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Welcome, David. We have a fine group of writers here who are willing to help.

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I am still being plagued with extended delays. This manifests itself especially when reviewing my own in-line comments on another author's chapter. I click on the blue highlight and wait, and wait, and wait, and wait. According to my traffic monitor, a query for display has been sent to tNBW, but nothing is received. If I wait long enough, it times out. Even though I hate Internet Exploder, this behavior is still present if I use that as a test. Something is either not fielding the request at the site, or that response is being dropped on the floor. Most times, I can finally view my comment if I close and re-open the comment repeatedly -- or click another comment and then go back to the original one.

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Outstanding, Denise! Thinking positive thought for you from my soggy little bit of Ohio. The rain is fine, but it raises the humidity something awful.

I am hoping that my wrists won't go that far. The doc says it is a mild case and if I don't stress it too much it should be fine with an occasional shot. My last shot lasted four months before even a hint of pain came back. My right one is due for a shot now as it building up pain, especially in the morning. She gets that needle way down into the tendon sheath. Painful in itself, but that pain goes away on hours.

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Lots of good information there. Thanks, Janet.

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Yeah. I know. but it offends mu sense of orderliness. The error was actually in my own local copy of the novel. I messed up a renumbering. I'll get it straightened out.

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Three months ago, I had over 1000 points. Now that I've begun two novels,they have dropped to just over 800. Still, that's a lot of points and I would love to be able to donate points to loyal readers. I also second the suggestion by Seabrass. Even a 5% refund of posting costs would be welcome.

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I'm running some tests now, but I may have found the problem, Corra. A series of PINGs against the DNS servers my router lists shows one of them responds 150ms slower than the rest which are nominally around 12-15ms. It is also interesting that a TRACERT to this site has two more intermediate stops between it and me as Booksie does. Any of those intermediate relay points could have something wrong with them also.

Today, 4 entries in my Event Viewer showed this error:

"Name resolution for the name www.thenextbigwriter.com timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded."

If Sol is doing some maintenance to the site, it is possible that the DNS servers aren't keeping up with the listing on a timely basis.

Still checking.

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Another possibility, but not as far as I can tell. I monitor my wireless logs regularly and toss out any MAC addresses I don't know. I change the passwords once a month also. I have four active wireless access points for full coverage of my house. If my bandwidth is reduced it would slow all the sites I visit, not just this one. I can watch streamed movies with no buffering. AT&T uVerse is really good at that.

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It doesn't seem top have anything to do with Windows as I get the same thing from Linux and a different browser.  None of my other sites are slow or have any trouble loading. Just this site and on Windows/Firefox and Ubuntu/Opera. In Linux I can monitor the IP stack easily and there simply is no response from the site after the browser receives the DNS reply for location. It goes into a wait state and sometimes it will time out, giving me the error "site timed out".

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Now, that's what I call succinct. Hamlet's timeline is a real twisty tale, that's for sure. No doubt Shakespeare was thinking in reverse - killing the MC and then telling us how it happened.

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