I took my Mac into the shop for some work last week, and for a variety of reasons that are as complex as they are boring, I haven't been able to get my wilwheaton.net e-mail since I dropped it off. If you've been trying to get in touch with me for business reasons, I'm not ignoring you; I just haven't seen your e-mail (though I should see it by the end of the week.)
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Hey Wil, we are talking about you over on the Star Trek Online forums (the new MMORPG):
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=39670
I’m Oblivion165 🙂
Does that mean you ARE ignoring us if we’re trying to get in touch with you for NON-business reasons?
This is a great reason to switch your email over to Google Apps for Domains — you’re not tied down to any one computer and can access it anywhere, from any Internet device, using the Gmail interface.
I switched over my domain’s email to it last year and it was a great change.
I was wondering that very thing myself. 😉 It’s okay. I can take not knowing if you heard about Dave Cox finally marrying, or Google Wave coolness. /sniffle
😉
I agree with Joe. Switch over to Gmail and use the POP settings to pull your wilwheaton.net email into your Gmail account. Whether or not it ever becomes more than a backup is up to you, but it’s nice to be able to access your stuff when sh*t hits the fan. Also, make friends with DropBox if you haven’t already.
Ahaha. No. I’m not ignoring anyone.
Except you. I am ignoring you. Starting right … now. 😉
Sweet! I’m off to raid Wil’s RPG bookshelf, then! 😉
Well without e-mail maybe this will work for dialogue.
Any idea on the PVP/PA dice auction? Am I still in the dark ages and missed it?
Wil Wheaton in exile, in exile? MY HEAD IT HURTING
I can’t comment on Google Wave or Google Apps for Domains, but if it is anything like GMail but better, it might be worthwhile switching to a Google Apps for Domains type thing. Also, Dropbox is kinda nifty, but the web interface is not as fluid as its machine-based alternative. The application is extremely small in terms of hard-drive space and takes only a few kB of RAM to keep running, and it stores files in the folder online. Useful if you are working on an important file that you’re leaving stored in the folder, and it updates as nearly in real-time as possible, as in, when the file is saved.
Heh… I was wondering why the site was titled ‘WWdN: In Exile’ still, since WWdN hasn’t seen an update in quite a while. Something about change is never easy, I suppose?
I think my computer needs to go somewhere too…..a shrink comes to mind. I don’t know what the heck is up with mine. Somedays is signs on, somedays it doesn’t, and most days I feel like flipping it the “bird” sign if you know what I mean! Scary knowing how much depends on computers isn’t it?? Sure hope yours is out of the hospital soon:)
Are you ignoring or giving invisible treatment? Because if it is invisible treatment I might raid your RPG bookshelf too.
Nah, nah, you can’t see me.
Huh, I wonder why Wil is swinging that baseball bat at what he perceives to be open air.
I gave up on mail clients as well and forward my personal domain to hotmail and gmail.
I noticed that as well. Wil, it’s been like 3 years, I think this can offically be called the de facto WilWheaton blog now. 🙂
Question: This might sound stupid, and I do ask what seems like MANY stupid questions in a span of a week, but is there a way to set WWdN as a homepage? Yes, your blog is that important to me….have to have something to brighten up the long dull work week 🙂
Anwer to last question: If you use IE you should be able to click on Tools then Internet Options to make WWdN your homepage.
No chance of using webmail instead?
It kind of depends on what browser you use, but unless its been manually disabled, most any website can be set as a homepage. To do it in Firefox, go to the Tools bar, select options and it is in the first big box. You’ll can either use the link as follows, or you can choose to navigate manually to it and click the Use Current Page button.
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/
I knew it!
Now I’m going to go sit in the dark and listen to The Cure. …except I’m out of eyeliner. Damn. Now I’ll just have to find some other way to languish. Maybe I’ll go put on my corsets and find a fainting couch to look pathetic on.
😉
I believe the correct response here is “pics or it didn’t happen.” 😉
Jramboz, find me a fainting couch, and you’re on. Don’t tempt me.
Aww, but temptation is SO much fun!
Ah well that explains everything…maybe. We were trying to contact you for a promo for Memories of the Futurecast to play on our recent show about Star Trek: TNG, but never heard back.
So we wrote our own, in song form!
If you are interested it’s at the end of the show, we hope you approve/enjoy. Keep up the great work.
http://supernumberone.libsyn.com
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find twenty-eleven-dozen versions of the name Wil Wheaton or Wesley Crusher on characters in STO. And ships too. USS Wil, USS Wheaton, USS Wesley, USS WFS, etc.
You can tell this will most assuredly happen based on how many of the STO forum handles are versions of canon character and ship names.
I’ve totally got enough eyeliner for both of us. You bring the The Cure records.
Yes Wil, I think you should make the case for owning another Mac, because I know I have withdrawals every time my Mac is in the shop. And Windows is certainly never the same for me as having Mac OS X and the amazing apps I’ve come to rely on. BRING ON THE APPLE TABLET/NETBOOK THINGY (as Mac OS Ken says)!
BJ
Awesome! Angie and I shall languish together in our eyeliner and corsets, listening to The Cure and Depeche Mode, to console ourselves while we’re being ignored. 😉
Thanks man! I need to brush up on my computer skills huh?? 🙂
Thanks to whatupdog down below too!
Excellent. I am so glad you’re not ignoring the email I sent you, because that would mean you were breaking your own rule. You know, don’t be a dick. LOL.
Thanks my friend! I finally figured out how to do this…lol. Here I thought I was a computer wiz…um yeah:) I appreciate you taking the time to write and explain this to me. -Josh
Hi Wil,
It has been a while since we have conducted business. Oh, about seven and a half years. I was re-watching ST:TNG a couple of weeks back, a ritual I practice evey few years. It got me to remembering little Wheaton. Your friend. In the garage, you called him Wesley. Since he took that trip out to the Big Apple all those years ago, he’s been going by “Little Wheaton.” I know, people change.
Well, I don’t know; It’s been on my mind to drop in and say hi for no apparent reason. I guess you, your presence as a human on this planet, and my little Wheaton are vestiges of a more carefree youth. A youth I no longer have: since that transaction seven years ago I’ve gotten married, had a son and have another baby on the way. Little Wheaton is a thing, an entity, whose presence in my home I would not acquire today, if I could afford it or not. Not that I could really afford it then. I was a 22 year old part-time student, part-time slacker, full-time Counter-Strike junkie.
Strangely, those three hundred five dollars have afforded me a talisman to my youth. Little Wheaton is something that has been hanging around my house, still in its shipping carton, on the bookcase to be peeked at occasionally. It is always in my mind, never truly neglected but never displayed. Its like an illegal stash, where I hide the irresponsibility I know I dare not use anymore, but can’t stand to part with.
Wow, I’ve really prattled on here. Anyway, I felt a need to make my presence on this world known to you, I suppose out of some need to reciprocate. I prefer symmetry.
See you later,
Vincent
Boo Mac!
Go Linux!
What about those of us that are simple fan boys desperately trying to garner your attention in order to feel that we are part of your circle? Are you getting our emails? If so, why haven’t you written me back!
It’s a lot more sophisticated than that. If you don’t play D&D, poker, live in California (boy, I could rant on for days about how much he hates the East Coast but I’m attempting to be nice) or have blackmail on Wil, it’s no email for you! He’s the email nazi, and now you know. I suggest you get some blackmail on him, it’s the easiest way to get to him.
But I have those covered! I am in California. I have been playing D&D (just as long as Wil, if not longer), and I love poker! No blackmail though. I’ll have to work on that one. I’m even a writer! Maybe that’s it. Professional jealousy. No wonder he ignores me.
Ohhh…see now, you could have mentioned all of that first. Yeah, it’s gotta be professional jealousy and lack of blackmail. If all else fails, blackmail is a very handy thing to have on one Wil Wheaton. I’ve got tons. His severed body parts collection was let out of the bag some time ago, but luckily for me, I’ve got shitloads of information just waiting to be called into TMZ should the occasion arise.
Ok, what if I’d like to reach you for business reasons, and we DON’T have the email? 🙂
I am the owner of http://www.theouthousers.com, and I’d like to talk to you about maybe an interview for the site. I’m sorry to ask here, but it’s the only way I’ve found to contact you!