Jan
17
If you haven’t heard about the latest customer service meltdown over at DreamHost, you’ll want to click on over and read the full explanation.
Basically, Dreamhost “accidentally” billed most, if not all of its customers for an entire year. And in many cases, clients were billed twice a month through December of 2008.
We had a teensy [...]
Jan
16
I’ll be honest here… I wouldn’t have written this post if I hadn’t read WPCandy’s Wordpress Hoodie contest post. Not because I’m only in it for the Hoodie, which would be super cool to win, but because I had no idea that Brian Gardner was involved in the Chicago Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk.
Before getting to [...]
Jan
15
Drew Veeneman helped start my day off on an intriguing note with a post over at the Tea Party Blog on the corrupt Illinois Tollway.
When the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA) was established in 1941, Austin Wyman (the initial head of the organization) said the tolls would be eliminated by 1984 when outstanding bonds [...]
Jan
15
Caution: couple F-bombs here.
Jan
14
Last Saturday night I installed Wordpress in one of my sub-directories to work on a few themes I’m using on other blogs. It was sort of a pain because I had to change permissions, flip back and forth to grab sidebar code from existing themes, and it just wasn’t a smooth process over all.
Then, yesterday [...]
Jan
14
I’m finally starting to get used to the idea of living here in Chicago. It took a good two and a half months to start feeling as if it were my home, but I’m finally there.
Last Christmas I flew back to Nevada and almost instantly felt like I lived in Nevada again. It was hard [...]
Jan
13
One of my New Years’ Resolutions was to clean up my blogs and get them all back on track. It hasn’t been easy…
That being said, it HAS been easy to identify things in my sidebars that I can live without. You know, like, for example, that silly widget that made perfect sense a few months [...]
Jan
13
Mozilla Firefox is bringing out viral weapons in an attempt to expand its assault on the dying Internet Explorer.
The latest weapon is a video that is shot along the idea of “we are the world”, bringing internet hot shots such as Ask a Ninja and Tay Zonday (Remember Chocolate Rain?), among many others in for [...]