I’m getting old. Every new band sounds like a pale imitation of another, better one. Take my last Saturday’s outing as an example: The Snow Patrol show at Ricoh Coliseum, Toronto. I’ve only been back in the “real world” for two months now, so it’s been ages since I’ve seen anything other than Lefty [...]
Mar
29
Blogging and Privacy
I’ve been involved with the Internet access business since ‘95 - a quick google of my name will prove that. But what else am I up to? Do I _really_ want you to know? This has been my internal battle since I gave in and started this blog a few months ago.
Blogs, [...]
This week was a little unusual for my little “online projects” empire-in-training. Not only did I have a site removed from Dreamhost, my usual hosting company of choice, but Google was nice enough to give me a (relatively) huge bonus in my adsense account.
Dreamhost
Generally, I like these guys a lot. So, I’m not soo [...]
So I’m lying on my bed last night, around midnight, nodding off to an uninspiring game of Sit’nGo Texas Hold’em. An attractive picture, I’m sure.
Bing! My friend from Toronto messages me on MSN. She’s traipsing around South America right now with a friend from Australia, so I expect it’s the end of the day for her [...]
Jan
10
Blame it on GoDaddy
It’s all their fault, really. For the last two years I’ve been registering domains through GoDaddy, and every time I register a new domain, renew an old one, or go anywhere near their site, they bombard me with “ROBERTHOF.COM is still available! Register it Today!”
I held out as long as I could - really, I [...]