My life, in general, is dealing with everyone else’s problems ~ if it’s not an issue with some tech somewhere, it’s an issue with a website or a purchase etc.

Now I’d like to think that I am a positive type person ~ I am predominately a ‘Glass is half full’ type, with minor negative expectations.

Call me am optimistic pessimist if you will: I believe that it will be fabulous, but experience tells me otherwise

Having said this, something I, and other small business owners, suffer from, from time to time, is a feeling of despondency - that feeling of “Why the **** am I doing this??!”

Well, today was one of those days…

I had some driving to do today: a special pick up from the suppliers then a brief sojourn down to a client near the Drax power station, after which I zoomed across to sunny Scarborough (amusingly renamed ‘Scarbados’ by the clients).

Usually I love these times, as it give time to think – get in car – apply liberal amounts of music and goooooooo!
On this occasion though, the doomsayers got there first, and the “what’s the point” message was coming through ‘loud and clear’.

BUT…

I had a client call (out of the blue) to say that he’d been to a networking session, where someone said they would review the other participants websites. One of these I had designed.
The review came back as extremely positive, and that the clients website was ‘One of the more pleasing designs’

That cheered me up no end!

I went on to have a great day – making several peoples lives easier and happier (I was delivering a new PC ~ it was like Christmas all over again!)

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Now I’m not one to moan – as you dear reader will likely know – but today was a difficult day.

The major headache was trying to get Apple stuff to use Demon Internet’s email system – what a PITA!!!

Firstly I had it working the other day and the iPad decided that it would not send – then not receive, then neither, then not send…
Great ~ how could that possibly be??
Well; today it came to a head and I braved the international joys of Demon Internet’s support.
Surprisingly they were actually quite useful and helpful, something I was not expecting!

Suffice to say that eventually we maanged to get the iPad conencting…
… to the catch all account
Sigh – not what this was needing
Phones back to someone else
Gets the iPad connected to the correct account
Now the Mac has an issue – can’t send, then can’t receive, then both
Sigh
More international joy
Finally gets it working

Joy

#Note#
for anyone reading this wanting the correct settings it’s as follows:

incoming mail server – pop3.demon.co.uk
Username – the bit before the @ symbol and +catchall account name including the ‘+’ symbol (i.e. mail+catchall)
Password – the catchall account password
Port – 110
SMTP – post.demon.co.uk
Port – 25

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