The Ides of March

View 717 Thursday, March 15, 2012

Ides of March: birthday of the late Dr. Stefan T. Possony, one of the great men of the Cold War.

My outlook mail has been broken since this morning when Microsoft seems to have sent some kind of update. I now have to exit Outlook, use Task manager to really kill it, then open outlook again to get it to send anything. It limps along as if it works, but it doesn’t. Also my accounts are now called jerryp@jerrypournelledotcom which is not the way I entered them nor have they been that way until – well I don’t know when it changed.

I can still get my mail, but I have to do things to get it. You can send and I’ll get it, but when I send mail it stacks up in my outbox until I exit and kill outlook then reopen it again. I am hoping to be able to find the message that seems to be stuck in my account but I am having trouble finding it. Ah well.

I kept playing with this, sending test messages and shutting down and restarting outlook, and Lo! a few minutes ago it stopped being stuck with the last message. I have no idea whether this ‘cure’ worked or what was done, but test messages now come through fast. We’ll see. Meanwhile it is bed time. Apologies.