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CornerBarPR.com May Look Normal, but It Ain't

Originally Posted Friday, 25 July 2008 at 12:00 AM
Updated Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 03:44 PM

Once the dominoes started to fall into place, our CornerBarPR.com^® home page quickly regained its appearance and again looks like a real Web site, and our Contacts On Tap™ on-line media directory once again works exactly as it did before our four-day disruption.

But it will be a while before anyone can subscribe or sign up for a Free Trial on our site. That's a heck of a way to run an on-line business, isn't it?

This is similar to a magician's sleight-of-hand: Most of our home-page links still don't work; it will take a while to rebuild and test those portions of our site, item by item. And when you have nearly 500 individual Internet pages, what looks like a delightfully comprehensive, easy-to-use site turns into a morning-after headache that simply cannot be alleviated by a "hair-of-the-dog-that-bit-you" hangover nostrum.

All paying patrons of Contacts On Tap will be granted an extra 10 days of service, free, to help make up for any inconvenience our server glitch caused. No lists were lost; no personal data compromised. We just had a big, stinkin' server mess that has taken our Tech God and his staff a while to untangle.

For Free Trialers, well, we'll consider allowing you a similar extension, if you're really nice when you ask.

But not if you're one of those jerks who tries to scam us by signing up for as many consecutive Free Trials as possible, just to see whether we catch on. We're friendly and all that, but we're also about to initiate legal action against one of those dishonest creeps.

You don't want to be next.

About The Author

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR, is well-positioned as CornerBarPR's Chief Curmudgeon; he's our version of Andy Rooney -- loves words, particularly loves to complain about idiocy.

In his spare time, Rich runs the inventively named Barger Consulting, where he conducts strategic communications planning and research, and gives people advice whether they want it or not.

Through the years, Rich has tricked unsuspecting folks into giving him positions as managing editor of the public relations division of a 180-person agency, and as a wire service editor, an economic analyst, a federal investigator, and, bless his little muddy boots, a farmer. Really. He fancies himself a pretty fair country editor and at one time was famous among about half a dozen people as "The Voice of IABC."

At various points in what passes for a career, he's done time as a member of IABC, PRSA, and NSPRA, as well as the Gifted Association of Missouri, the University of Missouri Alumni Association, the Council of Better Business Bureaus (as a Senior Arbitrator), and a handful of church choirs.

Known as "Boom-Boom Barger" in Marching Mizzou, Rich refuses to answer the phone during University of Missouri football or basketball games, plays a hard-edged game of bridge, and is married to a woman he doesn't like to talk about much, because she's smarter and much nicer than he is.

Barger's motto: "Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once."