Category: internet

For no good reason, I just went ahead and registered andrewhuey.net, so I now have andrewhuey.com, .org, and .net. And I also registered andyhuey.com, .org, and .net. Several of these domains were owned by a domain squatter at some point in the past. That’s why I first set up my blog at andrewhuey.org — it was the only variation on my name that nobody owned yet. Now, they’re all available. I guess whoever was squatting on them gave up.

I use 1&1, and they currently charge $8 for the first year, and $9/year after that. So I’m only spending about $50 per year on domains. Not bad, considering I can remember when it cost $100 a year to register a single domain.

I did a Google search for video training material on Microsoft technologies, and found this instead.

Not what I was looking for, but much more entertaining than SharePoint or Exchange training material.

I’ve been using both Spurl.net and delicious.com to save my bookmarks to the web over the last couple of years. Spurl has clearly been on life support for awhile now. It continued to work, but it didn’t seem like anyone was doing any maintenance or support work on it. Their site became inaccessible a few days ago, and hasn’t come back, so I’m guessing that they’re finally dead.

I ran across an article that mentioned ZigTag today. It looks like it might be kind of interesting, but I still wish Spurl was alive and well. Meanwhile, Yahoo doesn’t seem to have screwed up Delicious much since they acquired it. It still works well, and it’s still fairly simple and fast.

Talking Points Memo is a good place to follow the election. Lots of stuff going on at Twitter too. (Obviously, that depends on who you’re following.) Oh, and the NY Times and the Washington Post are free on the Kindle today and tomorrow, per the Kindle Blog. I’m sure there will be plenty of detail on the results in those papers tomorrow.

Well, my domain did fall off the internet for a couple of days. It’s back now. I need to remember to renew the domain early next time. That’ll be May 2010.

I’ve got a cold right now, so I’m not feeling real lucid. I took today off, and I might wind up taking tomorrow off too. I just feel really bad. Hopefully, a couple of days of rest (and Stargate SG-1 DVD watching) will help.

Wow, I’m not sure if my domain is still going to be mine tomorrow! I just checked my Yahoo mail account, and saw an e-mail notification that it expires today, 5-11-08. I don’t actually check my Yahoo mail account that often, since it mostly just seems to be a spam attractor. I do use my Yahoo address on my DNS account, since I didn’t want my gmail address out there for everyone to see. E-mail address harvesting from DNS info has become enough of a problem, I guess, that you can usually give your domain registrar a different e-mail address for them to use for billing e-mails, rather than just using the one listed in your DNS contact info. And I think are ways to have your DNS contact info completely private now too. So, I guess I should look into that, so I don’t miss the renewal e-mails I should be getting in May 2010. That’s assuming the two-year renewal I just put in for goes through, and I get to keep my domain name!

Some weird Wall Street Journal news this week. First, editor Marcus W. Brauchli is resigning, which looks like it will just speed up the changes that have been going on with the WSJ since Rupert Murdoch took over. Newsweek has a fairly lengthy story this week about Murdoch’s plans for the Journal, which include adding more political and general-interest news, and generally trying to make the paper more of a competitor with the NY Times.

There’s a fun little parody of the WSJ available here. (The Times has an article about it here.) I’ll have to see if I can pick this thing up the next time I’m in New York.

I still find the WSJ to be a useful paper, and I’m not regretting renewing my subscription last year. I largely ignore the editorial pages. Mostly, I just read the business news and some of the oddball stuff they tend to throw in. (For instance, today’s paper has a front-page article about opera prompters.) It sounds a bit like Murdoch might cut down on the quirkier articles, which would really be a shame, but we’ll see what happens there.