Red's Place

SIGNS OF A LAME WEB HOSTING COMPANY:

They farm the business out to some other company.
Their (non-updated) support web page lists a tech support email address which no longer works.
Their site runs on Windows and doesn't provide an Apache-style folder view.
Their site only works well with Internet Exploder, which is not my favorite browser.
Their online tech support tells you to contact that other company, which has already told you to contact "your provider" and not answered your email reply.
That other company only has voice mail, no live agents.
The logon to renew your domain online asks you for a logon name which has not been provided to you.
When you follow the username convention in the instructions they sent, it doesn't work.

Wondering if switching to Go Daddy would solve some of these problems... for sure, Go Daddy DOESN'T use Windows servers.
and you can guess the name of the company I'm talking about, I bet! (hint: take the name from this page's URL and add "webhosting.")

Oct. 09: I was Snoopy for the library's Halloween party this year.

Snoopy rules!

The desire to put a bit of yourself "out there" is what motivates a person to write their own page. I described it to one woman as "vanity publishing; this way everyone can be their own publisher." That's one view of it.

These days that usually means keeping up a page on MySpace, etc. or constantly updating a blog or Twitter. [we won't discuss FACEBOOK] I would guess that most of the folks who do those haven't been harassed on the Net much. I got some of that once and don't care for it. My friends know where to find this page, and that's sufficient.

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Have you ever used Meebo to access your IM accounts?
Meebo is a web interface that works
with AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber and Gtalk!
No need to install any IM clients,
and you won't need your own IM account
to send a message to me this way.
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