happy hosting

I have this new web hosting service. It's the third in my current collection. And there are several remarkable things.

1. It's amazing to me how much has changed in just a few short years. I first put up my website in February of 1995. Changed in price. Changed in ease of use and changed in options.

2. I've had a bunch of photos at a cheap hosting service now for about two years and I don't need to the service to do much and at the price I didn't expect much. BUT what I didn't know was that in comparison to what's out there today, this old host sucks! I thought it was normal to take forever to connect for an ftp session. Have most of those sessions crash. This new hosting service connects up instantly and flawlessly.

3. Last night I was playing around with the new service seeing what was what and I discovered that one of the things that comes with it is Forums. With the push of a button I can totally set up a complete XMB message board! I have two very kluged together forums - neither are very functional and they look like crap, too. So I was amazed when I hit 'set up message board' and voila this whole thing got created automagically!!!

Now if I can figure out how to set up my one asp page and database on the new host, I may well just cancel the other one.

Duh... the reason I got the other one was backup. Oh well.

happy hosting

I have this new web hosting service. It's the third in my current collection. And there are several remarkable things.

1. It's amazing to me how much has changed in just a few short years. I first put up my website in February of 1995. Changed in price. Changed in ease of use and changed in options.

2. I've had a bunch of photos at a cheap hosting service now for about two years and I don't need to the service to do much and at the price I didn't expect much. BUT what I didn't know was that in comparison to what's out there today, this old host sucks! I thought it was normal to take forever to connect for an ftp session. Have most of those sessions crash. This new hosting service connects up instantly and flawlessly.

3. Last night I was playing around with the new service seeing what was what and I discovered that one of the things that comes with it is Forums. With the push of a button I can totally set up a complete XMB message board! I have two very kluged together forums - neither are very functional and they look like crap, too. So I was amazed when I hit 'set up message board' and voila this whole thing got created automagically!!!

Now if I can figure out how to set up my one asp page and database on the new host, I may well just cancel the other one.

Duh... the reason I got the other one was backup. Oh well.

Jennifer Aniston

What is so friggin interesting about Jennifer Aniston settling a law suit over someone taking pictures of her boobs? I have read about this and heard about this continually now for two days. We've got a war going on, we've got planes crashing, we have people doing good deeds and Summer activities to report on and this stupid story keeps floating to the top.

Are her boobs something special? What clue am I missing here?

Actually the problem is that I'm probably not missing enough. I think I may have too many news sources. I started out in life as a newspaper reporter so maybe there's something DNA-ish there.

I read a regular paper newspaper every morning. I have a headline news thing that pops onto my computer screen at work with hot news. I usually watch the 5 p.m. news (unless there is a ballgame) and the 10 p.m. news on TV. Oh and a I get a couple of online newspapers that I kind of read.

I don't really feel like I'm generally on top of the news except if anyone has any questions about the Jennifer Aniston Boob Photog case, just let me know - I'm all over that one.

Jennifer Aniston

What is so friggin interesting about Jennifer Aniston settling a law suit over someone taking pictures of her boobs? I have read about this and heard about this continually now for two days. We've got a war going on, we've got planes crashing, we have people doing good deeds and Summer activities to report on and this stupid story keeps floating to the top.

Are her boobs something special? What clue am I missing here?

Actually the problem is that I'm probably not missing enough. I think I may have too many news sources. I started out in life as a newspaper reporter so maybe there's something DNA-ish there.

I read a regular paper newspaper every morning. I have a headline news thing that pops onto my computer screen at work with hot news. I usually watch the 5 p.m. news (unless there is a ballgame) and the 10 p.m. news on TV. Oh and a I get a couple of online newspapers that I kind of read.

I don't really feel like I'm generally on top of the news except if anyone has any questions about the Jennifer Aniston Boob Photog case, just let me know - I'm all over that one.