Read Michel Fortin’s article titled “Crash And Burn In Vegas”.


Michel Fortin’s article is reprinted here.

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Crash And Burn In Vegas

Oh, boy, am I angry.

I was in Vegas last weekend speaking at Carl Galletti’s Internet Marketing Superconference – click here to see the pictures. We had a blast! Sylvie and I went to see Le Rêve (“The Dream,” by the Cirque du Soleil) at the Wynn. Absolutely a fabulous show!

We also had time to tour the “strip” and even checked out a live band and danced on the rooftop (52nd floor) at the Rio hotel, overlooking Las Vegas’ skyline.

And I danced so much that my clothes were completely drenched! There were Sylvie and I, Mike Filsaime and his wife, Mark Braunstein, Stirling Valentine, Mike’s assistant Michelle, Donna Fox and a few others.

Now, you’re probably wondering why I’m angry…

I do all my email and work on my PC at home using GotoMyPC, from my laptop at the hotel. (It’s a great program, by the way. It allows you to remotely access your desktop from any Internet connection in the world.)

And just when I needed my laptop the most, my computer died. I mean, it fried! Both the main drive and the slave (ghost image) drive were completely corrupted and inaccessible.

I had a tech from NerdsOnSite.com visit my office in Ottawa and try to fix it. No success. So I have no computer right now (it has been sent to a forensic data recovery lab, with the hope of getting something out of it), so I’m typing this from my laptop.

Thankfully, I have a third drive as a nightly backup, but only my documents. And my email is on the main drive and backed up every other week. So I lost over a few weeks of email. (I’m reinstalling Windows on a new drive, but now it’s going to take me over an entire week to restore backups and resinstall programs. Eek!)

And wanna know what the culprit was? Norton. Yup. Norton’s Security Center, which includes Norton Ghost and GoBack (which repartitions your drive to create “restore files” and backups), was buggy. I removed it a week ago, and things were fine. For a while. That is, until last Friday.

Ugh. Double ugh.

But the positive in this, is that I’m now trying out Thunderbird (the email program from the folks at Mozilla, the makers of Firefox), and I’m blown away. I am (and maybe soon “used to be”) an Outlook user. (Other than Eudora, which I used prior to converting to Outlook many years ago.)

Outlook is good, but I’m starting to fall in love with Thunderbird. There are countless extensions (i.e., plugins) to have it do whatever you want. Unlike Outlook, which uses “macros” instead that crash from time to time because some macros are incompatible with one another, Thunderbird is totally scalable.

One of those plugins is RSS feeds within your email program… another is the ability to “redirect” emails… another is anti-spam filtering (for free!)… and hundreds more. All great stuff!

Anyhow, thanks for letting me rant. Time to go back to work.

About the Author

Michel Fortin is a direct response copywriter, author, speaker and consultant. Watch him rewrite copy on video each month, and get tips and tested conversion strategies proven to boost response in his membership site at http://TheCopyDoctor.com/ today.

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