There’s an end-of-the-week gallery of some of Neil’s older photos of the island. This time, I tried to find ones that are of the hinterland, or of places most day trippers don’t see. They were taken a couple of years ago now, mostly in the winter or autumn, by the looks. There’s a feeling of ‘end of term’ about them. I don’t know if you’ve ever found yourself in a boarding school the afternoon after all the kids have gone for the holidays, or in a holiday complex during a changeover weekend? Perhaps an empty cruise ship after the cruise, or any other place that’s one day filled with activity and noise, and the next, empty, peaceful and slightly spooky, like Hastings out of season. Such places take on a different personality once everyone goes home, and Symi certainly does too.
Before the gallery, though, a word of warning.
This is the weekend I am finally going to try to ‘migrate’ my websites to a new host. Symi Dream has sat on the same server since 2004, and although I’ve been able to host as many sites as I want there, and have paid the same price for 22 years, I am now dealing with my third company, and they seem to have put security restrictions in place, which mean I can’t easily use my old email addresses. Something to do with being on a much-shared server and having to pay more to move to a dedicated one… I don’t know, but I looked around for some other places, found some sites, got bamboozled about STPs and PVLs (which I thought had something to do with the clap and visible panties, but what do I know?), and looked at much cheaper prices, and have been swayed by the hosting company that says they will do all the work for me, and only charge me half of what I was being charged, and for 10 times the GB, and I can translate my domain name too, as that’s with another company, and they, too, are costly, and all I have to do is commit to a free month where I bed everything in, and then stay signed up for at least a year. Cheaper if you commit for longer. The usual stuff. But this Company kept coming up in searches and discussions as being a reliable one, so, tomorrow morning, I shall begin.
Phew – that’s how much I am looking forward to the weekend. I know what’ll happen. I will fill out the simple bits like my name, set up my account, and be all ready to start on Saturday morning. Perfect. Then, trepidatiously, I will hit the button that I have to hit to start the ball rolling, and off we go… Into a series of instructions. It’ll be things like:
Navigate to Settings, enter your BSL Code (found in System/ Readers/Digest/Code/SBL), and open the All-in-one-Optimum-Migration Service found under More on the second Appearance menu, and toggle off ‘When C4 is sellected’ (you may have to log out and log in again at this point), first ensuring you have entered the SOC code sent by message to phone number +33 ending in 01019 into the marked box, and shout “Where the **** do I find ‘Settings?’”
So, if you call back here on Monday and things look different, wrong, or are not there, you will know I am having trouble translating my migration from one power-guzzling black box in Arizona to another. Alternatively, it may all go smoothly, or you may find exactly the same as you are looking at right now, and nothing will have changed.
Tempus omnia revelat. ‘Time Reveals All.’ (The motto was found scratched inside a pocketwatch researchers thought once belonged to Jack the Ripper. Hm.) We shall see…
