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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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25 January 2002 - 10:20 pm
I've been using my laptop as my primary computer for more than a month now. One by product of this is that I no longer like low screen resolutions. My laptop runs at 1400X1050 on a 14.1" screen, and 1024x768 on a 17" screen looks huge in comparison. So now I run my monitor at 1280x1024. The increased space means my browser no longer needs to take up the whole screen, which is awesome.
I saw First Monday tonight on CBS. Actually, I only saw about 30 minutes of it, as that was all I could take. I don't think I've ever seen a crappier, more pretentious show. I'm sure the real Supreme Court justices cringe every time they hear mention of it.
As many of you moted, we had server troubles earlier this week, and unknown to most of you they persisted even after the site came back up. There are many things I like about phpwebhosting, and even though they eventually got everything straightened out, I wasn't very impressed with their service. I don't know if this should really bother me, but the following chain of events still upsets me:
1) My credit card is billed for the following 30 days of web hosting.
2) The following day, with no warning, phpwebhosting shuts down our site, resulting in the "Forbidden" errors that many of you saw.
3) michael and I notice the outage and email the tech support people to find out what was going on.
4) 36 hours pass without any response from phpwebhosting.
It continued from there, and full service wasn't restored until today. And none of it our fault really. Anyway, everything's back to normal so I'm going to put this behind me. phpwebhosting is still one of the best bargains in web hosting around, so I should just be happy that this was the first time in more than 6 months that I've had to deal with the tech support people.
Posted by on 25 January 2002 at 10:20 PM
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