I write this from the darkest night of my soul.  I'm trying desperately to update the Hellblazer website.  God won't let me.

Or should I say, a system of coincidences won't let me.

The list of current (and I stress these are only the current woes) is nothing different than anyone else out there in the world wide wait has experienced.

I just have them all at once.

So, I live on the bleeding edge a little.  It really isn't my fault.

It's my job, and somebody has to do it.

I'm sure there are my other counterparts out there.   Those who, like me, are an interesting, if not harassed part of this network earth, who are just trying to do their job

But we can't.  Why?  Because something is always wrong between whatever it is you want to do on the web, and the interface to that service, on your personal computer.

It's way to complicated of a system not to fail consistently.

My current list of woes is quite amusing.  First, I can't seem to get my FTP connection to the web provider to work.  FTP is the shittiest protocol on earth, and when the provider is basically ignoring the FTP connection, it takes forever to even get a directory listing.

Not that it's their fault.  It could be my ISP.   They've been flaky for about the past three weeks, and it could be just shitty DNS service.  It's happened before.

Or, it could be my ISDN line provider.  I do have currently one line down.  But, NT RAS says I have a connection, and when I browse with IE, I get reasonably fast downloads of web pages.

Heck, I can even see the stuff I want to replace.   That is, if I can ever seem to update it.

But it is not to be.  Web page publisher craps out after a while, and complains that it can't finish publishing.  It does get most of the way done, which is odd.  Most of the stuff in the web hasn't changed.

But the application doesn't have a clue.  No, for it to have a clue, it would have to be FrontPage, and luckily, the Hellblazer web provider can't seem to figure out how to create a FP website for us, even though there are other FP webs for other users on their site.

Oh well.  Murphy's law.  Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.