29th Cleveland Int'l Film Festival, Entry #2
No, you're not imagining things--there is no Entry #1.
I had my first CIFF blog entry all typed in and hit the "save" button...and found out another reason why Tower City's free "WiFiCity" 'net access is a wee bit sub-optimal. It seems that they have a ridiculously short time-out on a "registered" wireless card--after 15 mins. idle (which is about 5 minutes less than it takes me to ponder my thoughts & translate to words--even for short posts like these), your connection has to be re-registered (basically, open a web page, fail, get re-directed to their accpet/reject AUP page, THEN get connectivity again).
So CIFF entry #1 died a horrible death due to can't-get-there-itis, and possibly a design issue in Safari that causes it to lose the cotents of a filled-in form if you do something like 'submit' (errror) 'back' (error) 'back' (error) (fix error) 'forward' (back to the form page--but its blank now).
*sigh*
So now I'm typing these entries in TextEdit, then cut-n-paste to the blog pages when I'm ready.
BTW, for those who are wondering why I said "another reason" above regarding the bogosity of WiFi City: I haven't (yet) raised the issue this year, but last year Mall Security was quite adamant that I was not allowed to use the laptop/wireless setup while sitting at a table in the food court. Only the seats "upstairs"--meaning the 3rd/Huron Rd. level--are allowed to be used by us net-surfer types.
Slight problem: there are exactly 5 of them (frequently all occupied with lunchers or loungers). While there may be dozens, if not a hundred, open tables below.
Idjits.
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