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Bookmarks for January 30th

January 31st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Delicious Marks

These are my links for January 28th through January 30th:

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Bookmarks for January 28th

January 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Delicious Marks

These are my links for January 24th through January 28th:

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T-Shirt Hell Shuts Doors After One Too Many Hate Emails

January 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Shirts

I’m done. I’m finished. I can’t take the stupidity anymore, so I’m leaving and I’m taking my website with me. As of Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009, T-Shirt Hell will be no more.

No, I’m not selling out to some douchebag corporate entity. No, we’re not being sued by any of the over 40 companies that have sent us cease and desists over the years. No, I’m not going to jail (yet) and no, it’s not because of the economy. Although, the recent dip in sales certainly does make the idea easier to accept, even though we still sell over 3000 shirts a week.

T-Shirt Hell Shuts Doors After One Too Many Hate Emails.

While I don’t think I’d ever wear one of their shirts, I have found a number of them insanely funny and inappropriate.  So long T-Shirt Hell, the interwebs will miss you.  Well, at least some of them will.

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Goodbye 1&1, it's been fun, kinda.

January 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Hosting

I’ve been a 1&1 customer for a long time, in fact for as long as they have offered service in the US.  I started out with their “free for 3 years” shared host.  Since then I’ve upgraded through two dedicated servers, the last of which is a Rootserver III for $125/mo.

While I don’t really have any problems with 1and1, I am concerned with the aging server, and a bit upset that they won’t lower my monthly cost without migrating to a new cheaper and faster server.  Their cheapest linux box is a dual Opteron with mirrored 250G disks, 2TB of bandwidth, and a $100 pricetag.

So farewell 1&1, if I have to upgrade to get a lower price I’m going to upgrade right out of the dedicated server space and look at moving to single or limited purpose slice type hosts.  This way each project has it’s own server, a measurable cost, is easy to backup, and gains some reliability.  Then if I need more power, bandwidth, or processor I can just pay for more.

I do still have one dedicated server, at Server Beach, and I will hang onto it for a while.  I’ve only had one problem with them (disk failure about week 2) and their tech support was quick, professional and even returned my calls when they said they would.  They appear to suffer from the same upgrade issue as 1&1, but at least what I have meets my needs and I’m not paying more than the cheapest offering.  If you happen to buy a server at the beach, be sure to include my affiliate code: RESKKTY3QB.  It will save you $100!

Farewell 475 days of uptime.

Bookmarks for January 24th

January 24th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Delicious Marks

These are my links for January 21st through January 24th:

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Bookmarks for January 21st

January 21st, 2009 | 5 Comments | Posted in Delicious Marks

These are my links for January 19th through January 21st:

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Skepchick: Critical Thinking at its Finest

January 21st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Advertising

Turns out, Headset Vince is actually one of the good guys, a hero. We need to stop mocking him and start celebrating him. And we need to buy his towels and nut choppers and his DVDs.

Skepchick: Critical Thinking at its Finest.

George Washington was a Genius

January 21st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Politics

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796

George Washington Quotes.

I think ol’ George was a genius.

YouTube – 'Air and Simple Gifts' John Williams at Obama Inauguration

January 20th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Music

YouTube – ‘Air and Simple Gifts’ John Williams at Obama Inauguration.

Absolutely amazing.

Eat Some Sea Bacon!

January 19th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food

Eat Some Sea Bacon!.

We hope to change that by encouraging people to refer to fish by a different name: “Sea Bacon.” Everyone loves bacon, and by calling fish sea bacon we can help the world see these misunderstood creatures for what they really are: enchanting, delicious treats.