Well not really Paris – just a few shots from a somewhat cool drizzling day. Taken in and around Versailles. Hope to get out to the city of lights (Paris) tomorrow.
Read the Paris 2007 Journal.
Time to hit the road.
Sleeping Wolves is going to Paris and London once again. Hopefully full rain gear will not be required – it’s been coming down in both cities with some heavy duty flooding in the UK to boot.
Temperatures have been pretty cool for late June as well in both capitals (low 70s in F, high teens in C ) – all this while Athens and Sicily are experiencing record heat waves.
More trip journals and photos to come – on our return!
More chicks from this weekend.
From left to right: little mallard (not the same pic as the one below), greater scaup (i think), and other lil mallard.
Duck lovers might want to check out the Duck Thread or the Duck Pond.
Out of the blue this afternoon, I could no longer access Sleeping Wolves – no http, no ftp, no Plesk control panel. I could see all other sites but not my own!
Ruled out DNS problems by flushing the DNS cache and by trying to access the site through its IP rather than its name. Next I added the domain to the Hosts file. Nothing worked. Pinging the server resulted in a request timed out. Doing a tracert also went nowhere – it stopped after the 13th hop – a bad omen?
I asked a friend if he could access the site and he could without any problem. I tried to access the site through a proxy (thecloak.com) and I too was able to see it.
I then spent hours with Tech Support between my WebHost and my ISP – neither could help and one even suggested the classic “your computer must be infected – run an anti-virus”. I think they banned my IP as well since I was sending lots of packets…how sad.
So to make a long story short, and to document this mini-tragedy should it occur again, I finally reset my router to the factory defaults, shut my whole network down, and rebooted with a clean IP and clean settings….yes….it’s alive!
The moral of the story? Not sure. I still don’t understand why my site was selectively blocked by the router or whomever. All I know is that tech support is not the answer and you usually have to fix things yourself.
Nocturnal (owls) and Diurnal Raptors (Eagles, Hawks, Ospreys) can be seen in the
Raptor Gallery