My alphabetic acronym letter to Jesus.

My alphabetic acronym letter to Jesus.


Atta
Boy
Christ!
Do
Everything
For
God.
He
Is
Just,
Kind,
Loving,
Merciful.
Never
Overlooking
Pious
Questions,
Reminding
Sinners
Through
Unrelenting
Vengeance
We're
Xenophobic
Yearnful
Zealots.

0x800ccc0f - the update.

Funny how when you make claims on the web, within minutes, the problems you express seem to vanish into thin air. I was having an issue with the 0x800ccc0f error, and was doing 2 things: 1 - hassling my ISP and 2 - detect and repair of my outlook. I'm not sure which thing caused the problem to be rectified, but my sending issue has been resolved, but the detect and repair hasn't completed. My guess is that the last comment I made to my ISP with regard to their new firewall settings was the answer. BUT I'LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE THEY NEVER RETURN PHONE CALLS. It's funny because the Flash animation they have on their front page gives a testimonial as to how nice it is to call and have the phone answered. Sure.. That's all well and good, but when it comes time to return the call is the time I remember the Seinfeld episode that had to do with a car rental place being able to take a reservation, but not being able to keep the reservation which is, of course, the most important part of any reservation.

0x800ccc0f... the misery

So I just came in today to work to find that my Outlook 2003 is giving me an error, 0x800ccc0f to be specific, that tells me the contact with my server was interrupted. there are numerous issues all over the web with regard to this particular error, and many seem to blame Norton Anti-Virus. The thing is, I am not using Norton. I have temporarily stifled email scanning through McAfee, but still the problem remains. If you go to Microsoft, the knowledge base article refers to a hell of a lot of possibilities, so I started off per their suggestion with creating a new profile. That didn't work. I called my ISP (hostmysite.com) and they assure me that it's microsoft's problem.

So, after futher investigation, I see that this error is also caused by firewall issues. I called back HostMySite, and still the denial continues. BUT HERE'S THE THING. They just updated their firewalls on Monday. Is this my fault? is it Microsoft's? I think not. The fact that I can't telnet to either of the ports (25 and 50) makes me believe that this is in fact a firewall issue on their end. But they don't

Isn't it funny how zealous employees can be when it comes to defending their company? The instant answer I have always gotten from them is that it isn't their fault. Then, after a lengthy conversation that ends up with them agreeing that I'm doing everything right, I still have no progress. I still cannot send from within Outlook. I can send from within their web interface (internal... probably defined as OK by their new firewall), and so can my router. But with outlook? Has anyone else experienced this issue? Has anyone had problems with HostMySite? I am very curious... but have no expectation in getting a reply because I have gone wholly unnoticed in the blogosphere forever.

This is a test. This is only a test. Anyone out there?