Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

Oh GoDaddy, how I love to hate thee…

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I was using DomainsAtCost.ca for all my domain registrations, going back years…  recently however I wanted to put a few registrations on Paypal rather than Credit Card.  I like how I pay for it with real money immediately rather than later… which I often get out of hand with.

So I signed up at GoDaddy.

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July 29th, 2008 at 9:31 pm  

Posted in DNS, Personal

One of my biggest pet peeves…

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…is opening up some source code and seeing ^M’s at the end of every line. It’s an issue caused by the different characters operating systems use when you hit the enter key. Read on for a bit more detail about this, and a quick fix for it in vi!

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July 15th, 2008 at 9:10 am  

Posted in Coding, Personal

My new phone (Samsung A950)

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I’ve only owned a few cellphones in my life and mostly for work.  Work would offer to give me one so I could answer late night calls or tickets off the clock (i.e not paid).  I’m wise to this scheme now.

Recently moving into an apartment with no landline, I figured it was time I get a cell again.  Not because I make a lot of calls, but because clients would ask where they could reach me off hours.  Heck, ordering pizza would be nice too.

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May 28th, 2008 at 1:39 am  

Posted in Cell Phones, Personal

It All Happened on a Tuesday… (also friggin banks!)

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The title here refers to Tuesdays.  A fellow I’m living with now, German guy, has told me that everything bad that ever happens to him happens on a Tuesday.  Paying attention now, it seems to be happening to me as well!  Maybe it’s a Tuesday curse?

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May 28th, 2008 at 1:25 am  

Posted in Personal, Servers