As some of you may know, I have a huge problem with Tripod. And as others may know, everyone has has a huge problem with Tripod so I'm not that much of an exception. However, despite how everyone has a problem with Tripod, I have a problem with Tripod of Colossal proportions. A very mammoth, very nasty problem. You see Tripod and I aren't exactly the best of friends. We have a long history of run-ins

Tripod closed my old account skyxie permanently because it allowed outside downloads of files in my directory. That really pissed me off because not only did it close down that account forever, but it didn't delete the account. I tried to recreate the skyxie account again but of course the name was taken. I figured that wasn't too bad since it's quite a reasonable thing for Triod to do. But of course that wasn't the only problem that arose. I tried to create a new account under the same e-mail address but of course, Tripod denied it. This is one feature I really really hate in Tripod. The fact that they won't allow more than one user to one e-mail address. I only have so many e-mail addresses, the main address being taken up by this account and two peripheral accounts. One for skyxie and another for sonsofadun, a StarCraft Clan my friend and I create but never got off the ground.

But of course that's not the limit of our many run-ins. Of course there are the regular periods where Tripod simply refuses to work. I go to Tripod, log in, and try to go the filemanager but NOOOOO! It won't let me! What does it do instead of bringing me to the filemanager? It stops responding and I have to pull the ol' ctrl+alt+del on it's ass.

But that's not all! Sometimes I just can't access my page. Oh everyone else can, but I can't. And then I get really freaked out because I think Tripod probably deleted my account and I have to call up someone to check out my site to make sure it's still there. I still don't understand why sometimes everyone, except me, can access my site. Sometimes I think Tripod just wants to piss me off. They probably are too. It's a conspiracy I tell you!

Now of course there are your regular sets of problems with tripod. Things just take so damn long to load. You might be uploading a 1Kb file and it'll take an hour. You might just want to look at a page that only says "hello" and it'll take an hour to load. Sometimes MIDI files will just error or won't load at all. Why does Tripod do this? I'm telling you, they're trying to piss you off. It's a #$@%ing conspiracy I tell you!

Now recently, the problems between Tripod and myself have been greatly escalated. Recently I have been unable to perform many usually everyday functions on Tripod. These ordinary functions being copying files, creating new folders, and editting images. Now editting images isn't too bad of a handicap since I always do it off of Tripod anyways. I edit all my images on Adobe Photoshop 6.0 on my computer. However as for the other two functions...

I have just about the same set up on all my pages. The same format with a navigation bar, Style Sheets, tables, colored cells, same color scheme, etc. Infact all my pages follow the same pattern for a logical reason. Pages just look good that way. So since I often use the same pattern, I copy my files a lot and just change a certain portion. However since tripod has taken away my ability to copy, I can do this. Instead I have to do some Save As action which isn't too bad but I have a hankerin' I'll lose that function some day too.

Now as for being unable to create a new folder, that has seriously hindered me. Without the ability to create new folders it makes it impossible for me to be any more organized than I am now. that is very bad because as this page grows and it holds more and more files, it's gonna need more and more folders to organize stuff in. If I've lost this ability already at this point, I can't even begin to image how crazy my site will be in a few months. Infact it's rather a mess as it is and I've had the ability to create new folders up till now.

Now you may be wondering how I could possibly lose these functions. Did the buttons suddenly just get up and walk away? No of course not, that only happens when you're intoxicated, not when Tripod chooses to be an evil bitch. I could click ont he button but then IE just explodes. It errors and I have to ctrl+alt+del it's ass. It consistently does this too. I doubt this is my computer's fault because I have a good computer and it's well updated.

But then again I'm the only one having problems like that, so it may just be just my problem. Same goes for being unable to access my own site. But none of these make sense! I can do all this stuff on other web hosting services, I just can't for Tripod! I still think tripod is trying to kill me...