I remember registering my first domain when DNS updating faster than two weeks was lightning speed. Now, foot tapping commences when it’s not ready to go in under an hour. But, even so, we all know the tubes can get hopelessly clogged and the internet can take until next Tuesday to get here. I stayed patient. The following day, the URL resolved successfully.
To an amateur gallery of spiked heel shoes.
Here we find Debbie in all of her curvaceous glory and various stilettos. Six albums laid out in a sort of time line – “Debbie’s first album”, “Debbie’s second album” – comparable to a virgin teenager’s scrapbook. Debbie also highlights her favourite shoes, shoes of yesteryears, and miscellaneous collection of photos resulting, evidently, from a constant active pursuit of pointy footwear. Of course, the “Spiked Heel Gallery” immediately conjured up the likelihood of various x-rated photo albums involving women, stilettos and not a whole lot else. It turned out, however, to be quite mundane – just a simple collection of Debbie, her shoes and her shoe photos.
Regardless, the issue was still at hand: my URL was resolving to someone else’s website. A call to the registrar on my behalf uncovered a bit of a never-actually-explained snafu on their end, involving a “We’ll look into it and call you back” followed by a “We’re going to comp you your first year’s registration fee.” The small claims version of nondisclosure and settling out of court.
Issue resolved. For other people. Not for me. From here. Ok, that makes sense – DNS caches and takes a predetermined (and in this case undisclosed) amount of time to refresh. Alright. Patience.
Two days later, having gotten agreement from everyone that no ISP has a cache set that long, I began looking into other options. At a glance, I couldn’t see an obvious place to clear Firefox caches from within the program itself. So, I cleared my browser caches using a program called Main Menu for Mac. This did not resolve the issue. Reset the info in my router, reset my machine, cleared caches again, no change. In discussing this with a friend, he mentioned having cleared Firefox’s caches with a plugin. I did a quick help search and found it within a plugin that I use on a daily basis: Web Developer. Cleared it through there and it worked.
The shoes are off and my tech blog is ready to throw down. Anyway, everything seems more satisfying when you have to work for it. And hey. “Did I tell you the one about Debbie Does Heels?” will always be a great conversation starter. And you can never have too many of those in your arsenal.