I’ve had my sites hosted by Dreamhost for long enough now to be pleased with the company. It may not seem it once you finish reading this, but I do highly recommend them.
Something I’m not pleased with, however, is Dreamhost storing historical support information for each user… including any passwords… in clear readable text. [...]
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Dreamhost and Customer Privacy
August 16, 2006 – 1:56 pm
Microsoft Live Writer Beta: WYS is not WYG
I downloaded Microsoft Live Writer (beta) just now to see if it was cool. It’s a WYSIWYG blog editor for Windows. Once connected to my Wordpress installation, I opted to edit an existing post.
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Post shown in Live Writer Beta:
Uninstall.
August 13, 2006 – 11:39 pm
boompa: Your garage online
boompa is young, but I have a selfish hope that it grows up well.
Boompa.com is a community driven online vehicle encyclopedia devoted to showing off, tweaking and catalouging anything that drives, flies, floats or pedals. Registered users can showcase their vehicles in their boompa “garage” as well as write guides dedicated to vehicle tweaking, maintenence [...]
July 12, 2006 – 5:13 pm
Favorville, an idea whose time has come
Still in its infancy (beta) and with a small base at this time, Favorville is a great idea.
Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others. With Favorville, members can post help requests, offer help and help grow the community. Favorville makes it easy to [...]
December 31, 2005 – 6:43 pm
Pandora’s music recommendations are good
I’ve been poking around at Pandora lately and it’s pretty impressive. Briefly, Pandora is a music recommendation service. You start by simply typing the name of an artist or song you like. Pandora does some work for a few seconds, then starts playing music very similar to your choice. Buying a [...]
December 30, 2005 – 2:27 pm
