20 Year Reunion

My mother-in-law and I pushed my wife to go to her 20 year high school reunion this past weekend. It was a three day event, drinks on Friday, formal dinner on Saturday, and a picnic on Sunday. After Friday's mixer she was hooked and couldn't get enough. Tonight, she's back out with her high school friends.

I'm amazed how many people don't want to attend their high school or college reunions until they actually attend and love it.

iChat and MobileMe

The @me.com e-mail addresses went live a few days ago.

Does that mean you can use username@me.com in iChat?
Yup, you sure can.

In iChat, simply add a new account (iChat –> Preferences –> Accounts) by clicking on the + symbol in the bottom left.

Instead of adding a .Mac Account, choose AIM Account and add your username@me.com.

GoDaddy Affiliate Program

I've been using a GoDaddy reseller (NoMoreWebMasters.com) to register domain names with GoDaddy at a cheaper price than godaddy.com ($6.95 vs $9.99 for .com).

However, once I was logged in through the affiliate I couldn't change the DNS. When I clicked on "Total DNS Control and MX Records" to change my DNS I got the following error message:
The Total DNS Control Manager for this domain is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later.

After noticing this problem for several days I called GoDaddy. They told me it was a browser issue. While the rep had me on hold I googled the error message and I noticed some other people having the same, undetermined, problems.

I then noticed that the NoMoreWebMasters.com page was actually framing the GoDaddy affiliate page. Once I removed the GoDaddy page from inside the frame the problem went away.

I ran into this problem on OS X Leopard with Safari and Firefox 3.0. However, on Windows XP with Firefox, the NoMoreWebMasters.com page worked inside the frame and I could change the DNS. So, for some reason, framing a GoDaddy affiliate page doesn't work on the Mac.

Google Street View

Google Street View came through my neighborhood the other day and snapped this photo of my house.

This is my photo of the Google Street View car.



And this is Google's Street View photo of my car.
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Sunspots and High-Tech

This morning, our Web server went down for no real reason.

This morning, my my wife's hard drive died for no real reason.

This morning, Amazon.com's Web site went down for several hours for no real reason.

Coincidence? Sunspots?

At least the markets had a reason to go down, today.

The Inventor Of Sideburns

Yes, sideburns are really named for this guy (Ambrose Burnside)

Internet Connectivity in Africa

The pre-taped call in show

La Costa Short Sale + MLM

Here's a short sale in Carlsbad. This house is about two years old yet the owners still hadn't landscaped the front yard. After taking a tour of the house it looks more like a HUD foreclosure – the rugs were stained, the floor was dirty, and the walls needed paint. Although the owners moved out it looks like they left behind a bunch of junk in the garage. They really let the house go to pot. It a shame since it's such a nice, new, house.

On top of all that, it looks like someone was trying to sell a MLM (multi-level marketing) diet program in the driveway.

What were they thinking?

Marketing at its Finest

Doesn't this make you want to drop by the garage sale?