Update: Okay, everything is back up on the new host! Thanks to Matt and Jake.
December 15, 2005 Movin' On Up
This website is (obviously) hosted by my brother on michaelhusson.com (of which I do not thank him enough for). He goes through Yahoo! Hosting for ...hosting. He has been with them for the past 4+ years. That long ago, you didn't get a lot for your money as far as hosting goes, $15 bucks/month got 100mb of space, a gig of transfer maybe and that was it. In the past four years, Yahoo! Hosting has continually made their hosting packages better and cheaper, all the while not informing my brother of the newer, better, cheaper plans. After refusing to reimburse my brother for years of paying more for a lesser service, He has decided to move hosts.
michaelhusson.com will be moving to a new (textdrive) host. For pretty much everyone but me, nothing will change, except that in the future I will be able to do cooler things with this website (first of which is have the "Now Playing" thing work on IE). So, over the next few days the up-time of /mark might be shaky, but bare with me. And I'll catch you on the flip-side.
December 12, 2005 So Cool, It's Not Even Here Yet
I have been asking for Google to Make a Calendar for as long as I've had Gmail. Luckily, they seem to be working on something. Rumors got started that Google would release an online calendar service at the Where 2.0 conference, but it turns out that rumor wasn't true (which lead some to call it a "hoax" [what the hell was hoaxy about an untrue rumor? Idiot.]). Anyhow, the URL http://calendar.google.com exists and currently just redirects to the main google page, a pretty good sign that we are near a public "release" of a Google calendar.
Now, for a reason I can't remember, I decided to look up all of the people on del.icio.us who have already bookmarked calendar.google.com, and found some interesting results. I was surprised to look at the top tags for this program/web-service that is yet to be released. Here are a couple of the top tags: "cool" & "ajax". What is cool about a product that has yet to come out?!? I really don't get it. I admit that I am a huge fan of google and it's tools, but calling a yet-to-be-released service "cool"? And "ajax"? Oh that's really bad. Not only for the same reasons as the "cool" tag, but wow, that "ajax" word has gotten out of hand. I don't know why this makes me so upset, but it does. I hate people sometimes.
