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I just received another email notification that led me to "Not Authorized".

What is the point of emailing notification that I can't see? Can't the mailing daemon be taught to check the membership of a given forum before sending out notifications? Here is what the email contains:

"bimmy has created new topic 'How it feels to be writing a novel. ...' in forum to which you are subscribed."

Note the phrase "...to which you are subscribed." Doesn't that mean I should be authorized to see the forum post?

~Tom

I thought it was just temporary, but now that you mention it, I am also seeing huge delays when adding a comment. I can highlight the word/phrase and the popup appears right away, but then I fill the edit frame in and click OK, it might take as long as five or six seconds to post properly.

This happens on Windows and Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.01).

Other delays are found when I try to send a PM. I enter the captcha and click Send, but most of the time it will fail after a long pause (around 10 seconds), making me enter a new captcha.

~Tom

I don't know if I'd even have noticed it. For 3 years I lived in Japan and they get almost a quake/tremor a day there.

~Tom

I would imagine that most modeling agencies would be in the Garment District. That's an area between 34th and 42nd Streets (N/S) and 5th and 10th Avenues (E/W).  There are loads of cheap hotels clustered around West Village and Greenwich Village. I've been there a few times, but stayed with friends in the Upper West Side (110th and Riverside).

~Tom

A hearty 'Well done' to all the contestants and especially to the winners.

~Tom

That is correct, Janet. I have since contacted the author and know what group it was posted in. This person also agrees that sending an email to someone who can't read it is pointless.

~Tom

Outstanding, Randy. Quite an accomplishment for you.

~Tom

Maggie Simpson comes to mind. There are several others, but they belong more to the Manga set.

~Tom

The timer reached zero. BOOM!

The unicorn bowed. "Hail Queen!"

Sword unsheathed. Strike. A kill.

Hey, this is real fun!

Hold my beer. Watch this.

"Never mind the smell. Dig!"

The huge wave struck. "Mayday!"

As far as backing up goes, Microsoft has a great piece of free software called SyncToy. You can get it from the MS site. The URL is:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/downloa … x?id=15155

It will run in Windows 10, but in order to use the task scheduler to automate backups, you have to do a tiny bit of fiddling (instructions are on the MS site also). There are three modes of operation:

Synchronize - which allows additions/revisions/deletions to be exchanged between source and destination
Echo - additions/deletions/revisions are only ECHOed to the destination from the source.
Contribute - additions/revisions are copied to the destination from the source, but deletions are not made.

I have it run every night, making sure that I have backups of my Documents directory on 2 separate USB drives.

Open Office works well for me as I do a lot of editing on my laptop which run only Linux. I've not noticed any problems between OE and Word, but I don't get too creative in the formatting arena anyway. One of the initial problems I had was that OE on Linux didn't have any of the fonts Word used. I installed them using the Ubuntu Software Center. Now I use the same fonts in both word processors.

~Tom