Need bandwidth?

From the department of “dude, seriously?!” - I am six short weeks from an anniversary with my current webhost, meaning another iteration of my yearly billing cycle.

So… anyone looking for cheap hosting? Because if you already were, you might be able to help Whimsi out.

• 1. I can may lease subdomain hosting on a yearly basis. If I decide to do so, approval would be subject to my analysis of your character; mi TOS es su TOS.
• 2. Alternatively, if you’re in the market for fo-reals hosting, consider signing up at Dreamhost with a referral code. You get 50% off any plan (even monthly… hint, nudge), I get $48 bucks.
  >>If you click here, enter WHIMSIDISCOUNT as your promo code. Simple. Done. Yay.

Also, I will likely post something similar on trueplaces, facebook, etc. - don’t let the spam piss you off. I’m not a bad person. Really.

Now you see them…

…now you don’t.

So two meager posts were lost due to my laziness in database migration. Did you notice care? Ok then.

The database(s) marked the last cobwebs to be cleaned out of the old space before cancelling hosting — so with any luck, here’s to another year of non-moving.

In other news, two new guys have started on at work. After constituting 50% of the student workforce for a while, this is very strange.

Hi, new guys.

Live, from… somewhere, it’s …something!

True Places. Go, visit, spread the word.

Remember last year, when I had a couple really ghetto URLs getting floated around, with All-About-China-and-Sara type stuff? Well, I officially consolidated all of the above into a hopefully-significantly-less-ghetto site. Added bonus is the idea of public vs. private, so anything that was posted separately on a locked blog (sucking up whimsi’s space here) — will now be inline (there) along with everything else.

Oh yeah — final detail: actual honest-to-goodness accessibility from behind Ye Olde Great (Fire) Wall. Hooray.

So go see, register, and try not to scratch the paint.

Wow

I just posted this to my blog from Google docs. Sweet.

Not that I really see any practical use for this — if ever I’m online, I can just as easily log into /whimsi — but still. I lessthanthree the all-around Googleness. Possibly it could come in handy if I were ever (Great Wall-)firewalled out of a blog. Not for my own domain, but at least another.

Still nifty. I freely submit my brain for indexing, and fully accept all implications thereof.

Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome - C’mon in.

Happy, joy. You’ve arrived. Stick around. Enjoy the view.

The new, permanent feed, in case you missed it:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/whimsi
[http://whimsicorical.com/whimsi/?feed=rss]
/?feed=rss2
/?feed=atom
/?feed=rdf

Choose your poison: Ta.

Out on a Whim

Ar har, ar hardy har. I cracketh me up. Whatever.

But anyhow. This apparent whim I’m going out on is coming soon — when I plan on migrating this decrepit piece of somethingorother from MoveableType to Wordpress. Ok, really, I get that it won’t affect anyone else, but it’s been making the geek in me happy for the past few evenings.

So just in case you decide to ever make use of your domain (yes I’m talking to YOU, Mr. “Oh, I’ll just put my diggs and kiss up to google and a cute little ‘under construction’ sign that is so 1996″) - here’s why I’m switching. Oh, and in case anyone else is interested, you should listen up too:

SIX APART SUCKS.

Got that? Just about sums everything up.

See, I was all about propping 6a ‘back in the day’ (ok, like two years ago) - they never were “really” free, but they were good enough for the little guy/gal. Then they married Typepad. Then they had kids. Then they forgot about us. But we kept hanging around, because every Christmas and Birthday they still sent us cards, so they still loved us, right? But then… MT3.0 came out, with its godawful licensing shite. Then we freeloaders cried. But I stayed - ’cause hey: one author, one site, one post a month - it’s not like I had big requirements.

But now the ‘principle of the matter’ finally returns to kick me in the pants, because I have sudden need of multiple databases, multiple authors, and actual plugin support - and I really don’t care to spend $400 for the privilege.

So screw you, Six Apart. I tried to pretend you were worth supporting, just because you’d been the “better guys” for so long. Now that I poke around with the “other guys”… holy fitshuck, batman: y’all suck.