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I’m waiting for my hosting company to get back to me about a problem I’ve run into this evening. Seems I’ve exceeded my allowed limit for number of SQL databases. Since I’m on a grandfathered annual payment plan, I suspect I’ll be asked to move over to one of their ‘current’ plans that will require four times the cash without offering four times the value. A victim of my own business success – time to jack up the prices!
I’ll blame the HST. People will buy any line of reasoning if you blame the government somehow.
While we wait for what’s his name in India or wherever to write me a message that will only make sense because I’ve grown used to that particular brand of jibberish, I thought I’d share some of the many links that I’ve been sitting on since… what, June? Really? Damn.
- Openbook is another exploit of Facebook’s impossible-to-parse privacy settings that tend to leave people’s status updates out there dangling for anyone to pick up. Go ahead, search on a term that someone would be embarrassed to have the internet at large know they talk about. The ‘recent searches’ alone are usually worth the time spent.
- American Drink. Cool layout, subject dear to my heart and liver… yes.
- If you’re a writer who keeps a blog that you don’t update often enough, Plinky wants to help. It’ll offer up a topic and integrate directly with WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, or whatever other system you might be using. I’ve signed up, we’ll see whether any of their prompts show up right here on the mighty A1.
- If the Earth Stood Still. What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? “If earth ceased rotating about its axis but continued revolving around the sun and its axis of rotation maintained the same inclination, the length of a year would remain the same, but a day would last as long as a year.” Wicked!
Finally, there’s more fine artistic work going on at Hyperbole and a Half. The latest:
“My dog might be slightly retarded.” This sounds pretty much exactly like every dog I’ve ever known. People who choose to keep animals in their home just don’t make any sense.