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06:57 pm - DROC.CA : Douchy Business Practices

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I’m unsure as to exactly why this annoyed me so much but on receiving junk mail to my home address from a company called “Domain Registry of Canada” (spammer’s website) I felt compelled to write an email (if only to get myself off their mailing list).

Hi,

I’d like to inquire why environmental resources, postage, and my time was wasted by sending a letter to my home address “as a courtesy” to “renew” or should I say SWITCH for 4 times ($40.00 CDN) the price I currently pay to register my domains.

Please remove me from your database and in my obtuse opinion grow a pair of non shifty business practices. (“Domain Registry of Canada”? It may be legal but it’s certainly douchy).

Pissed off over junk mail and shady business practices,

Micheal

I’m fully aware it will do nothing, they won’t (and most likely should not) care about my opinion of their practices but making it known that Domain Registry of Canada is soliciting me to switch (under the guise of renewing) is douchy. The domain is even transfer locked (meaning I can’t switch registrar’s with their fancy paper form). It does stand to point that the moment you start reading further it’s quite obvious it’s a solicitation - it’s not hidden but the fact that I am being solicited for this annoys me even if it “standard practice” by those who have business practices I despise.

01:35 am - The Joyent Golden Ticket

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I’m happy to report that I am now using the newer Shared Accelerators running on Open Solaris - I requested my Golden Ticket several days ago but only had time to do it tonight and thanks to the helpful migration guide I was all done migrating everything except a handful of abandoned subversion repositories (which had been moved to git a couple months ago anyway) in just a matter of hours.

Another notch off the long, long list of rebuilding my web presence. My only gaff was that when I set up the domains on the new server I enabled PowerDNS right away meaning my DNS changed right away - no time to wait, but it meant any email in the 15 minutes before I finished setting up the email accounts could have been bounced.

11:20 pm - The Move To WordPress

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After much (okay very little) persuasion from Matt and coincidentally a well written breakdown on how he has set up his WordPress installation I’ve pulled the trigger and installed WordPress. The installation replaces my MT4.1 installation that languished under the wait for me to find some time to design the new blog and accompanying photo blog on mcjones.ca. I had even got so far I had it written it out and sketched in a notebook. Finding the time to sit down and actually code it however never came to pass as when I did make time it was the last thing I felt like doing.

So please bear with some minor growing pains as I decide and modify a theme for WordPress - I’d still love to go with the design I made but since that is never going to come to fruition I should move and start creating articles that interest me.