Pretensions' internet connection has been through a particularly bad patch lately. Her ADSL line kept going down at unpredictable intervals and coming back up whenever it felt like (totally random, minutes or hours). Needless to say, this made posting and uploading excruciatingly frustrating exercises, which is why she hasn't posted for ages.

She was also having problems with a bad .htaccess file on her Wordpress installation which meant that whenever she managed to access the dashboard, it promptly gave her a 403 error.

After 3 visits from successively more senior Singtel techs and much shrieking down the phone line about switching to a different service provider, the connection problem now seems to be fixed (fingers crossed). Apparently P's condominium is a fairly elderly development and her telephone wiring is in much need of replacement. P was suffering from significant data loss due to a combination of badly oxidised copper wires (this from a relatively new line) and bad splicing of her lines into the apartment block's main box. Hence, during peak periods, her connection would go down.

With the advantage of a stable connection, P has also sorted out her software problem and hopes to begin blogging regularly again.