The Saga of the Website That Would Not Work
Saturday, September 6th, 2003 10:32 pmIt began one day, clicking away
Two hours there I'd spent
I clicked once more, that fateful day
But the page, it would not load!
I hit reload, and refresh, and such
In the hopes it would finally return
I pleaded, I begged, I yearned so much
But no, it would not, it was gone
So I settled down to wait and wait
Hoping it was temporary
Alas but no, that was not fate
There was much more ill there-in
On Z's machine it worked so well
I tried again on mine
But, dear reader, need I tell
The page, it would not load
Perhaps a problem that ad-aware
could fix for me that day?
I ran it twice with special care
No solution found there-in
A virus! yes! that must be it
So a checker was installed
Frustration and an urge to quit
Was all the checker found
Near wits end I was approaching
The site still causing grief
Of Chaos I wanted to be King
But the page, it would not load
I hit refresh, my machine restarted
What foul play was this?
Someone who was so cold-hearted
A trojan perhaps had placed?
A trojan-checker, when was run
Found nothing like the rest
Beyond the joke, this was no fun
When was my site coming back?
Then when all and nothing had worked
A glimmer of hope sprung up
Perhaps a cookie that there lurked
was causing me such strife?
Surely not! Yet wondered I still
And deleted that cookie plus 30
I went to the site not daring to breath
The page! It finally loaded!
(Of course, then I went and deleted pretty much all the cookies I had. I had to. It was a vengeance thing.)
(Stupid cookie. Took me three days to work out a stupid little cookie was stopping Kings of Chaos from working.)
Two hours there I'd spent
I clicked once more, that fateful day
But the page, it would not load!
I hit reload, and refresh, and such
In the hopes it would finally return
I pleaded, I begged, I yearned so much
But no, it would not, it was gone
So I settled down to wait and wait
Hoping it was temporary
Alas but no, that was not fate
There was much more ill there-in
On Z's machine it worked so well
I tried again on mine
But, dear reader, need I tell
The page, it would not load
Perhaps a problem that ad-aware
could fix for me that day?
I ran it twice with special care
No solution found there-in
A virus! yes! that must be it
So a checker was installed
Frustration and an urge to quit
Was all the checker found
Near wits end I was approaching
The site still causing grief
Of Chaos I wanted to be King
But the page, it would not load
I hit refresh, my machine restarted
What foul play was this?
Someone who was so cold-hearted
A trojan perhaps had placed?
A trojan-checker, when was run
Found nothing like the rest
Beyond the joke, this was no fun
When was my site coming back?
Then when all and nothing had worked
A glimmer of hope sprung up
Perhaps a cookie that there lurked
was causing me such strife?
Surely not! Yet wondered I still
And deleted that cookie plus 30
I went to the site not daring to breath
The page! It finally loaded!
(Of course, then I went and deleted pretty much all the cookies I had. I had to. It was a vengeance thing.)
(Stupid cookie. Took me three days to work out a stupid little cookie was stopping Kings of Chaos from working.)