11/16/2000

Yesterday, I got a great offer from it&t international business directories. They sent it air mail, so I'm really impressed so far. I open the delicate, tissue-thin envelope, to find an even more delicate, tissue-thin order form. And what is it they're offering me? Why, to have the champeon.com domain (aka "Champeon Family Domain") listed in their directory, under NAICS category 23595, "Building Equipment and Other Machinery Installation Contractors", with old, outdated phone and fax numbers, obviously scraped from an old copy of the whois database. (I moved my domains from NSI to register.com this summer, because NSI believes that customer service involves hiring the mentally deficient and then making their customers wait an hour on hold to talk to them.)

The kicker: if I respond within 14 days, I save an amazing $29.94 off the regular price of $998.00!

I wonder if they'd list this domain under "Clam Dip and Other Delights"?
posted 10:31 AM

11/13/2000

As part of my long-standing campaign against redundancy, I'd just like to chime in here and say that I love the idea of request handlers mapped to backend processes. For example, if you have a script named 'login.cgi', and you're used to placing stuff in /cgi-bin/, you end up with /cgi-bin/login.cgi - it's so much shorter to just map /login to that script (or to a mod_perl module that performs the same function, only faster and more efficiently). OK, I admit it. I'm a freak about this stuff.
posted 1:36 PM

11/12/2000

On the off chance (highly unlikely!) that any spammers are scraping this site, please send all unsolicited bulk email here. Morons.
posted 1:33 AM