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There's no stripping. (Sorry.) But there's rambling, usually in the area of science, politics, pop culture, signs that are irritatingly misspelled, and religion, or anything that happens to be on my mind at the time. I post on study breaks, so that I don't go insane. Insaaaaaaaane!

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Saturday, November 24, 2007

The suckage of GoDaddy and their stupid TOS

You can't see this right now, because GoDaddy has helpfully suspended my account. Do you know why? Because I have

"... content not directly related to your live website on your hosting account [and am] in violation of the TOS as the hosting is not meant to be used as a file repository for non web related content. Once you can confirm that you have removed all non web related content please reply to this email again."

Do you know what the "non web related content" is? It's my very amateur, non-copyrighted clogging videos and the also very amateur, non-copyrighted video of my high school senior year Homecoming pep rally routine to Thriller. Good grief. I guess I'll have to remove those links in the sidebar, even though I do get a fair amount of hits from people looking for clogging videos. (Seriously, I really do.)

I only stay with GoDaddy because they're so much cheaper than other hosting companies and I, as a medical student with a pretty high tuition cost, don't exactly have lots of money to throw around. If only I had more traffic, which would mean more people clicking on my G**gle ads at the top of the page, and more people using my Amazon affiliate link when they buy from Amazon ... sigh.

So I'm in the process of deleting those oh-so-threatening clogging videos. I'm not sure what harm they were doing to anyone, but whatever. I'll play by the rules, but I'm still putting GoDaddy on my List. You know, THAT List.

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

The number's a fake! A fake!

Is there such a thing as a reverse phone lookup that is completely free? Mom's car was parked on the street at my apartment last week, and someone bumped the car (doing about $500-$1000 damage) and being a good citizen (or so we thought) left a note with a phone number. Well, Mom called the phone number, and got a woman who had no idea what she was talking about. Mom thought it may have been another medical student who lives in my apartment building, because the note was written on the reverse of an "Information About Your Medications" piece of paper, which would seem to come from a student or nurse or doctor, etc. So she went upstairs and asked his fiancee, who said that the writing wasn't his.

I tried searching that phone number, and I got results, but every reverse search is going to make me pay $14.95 to see the results. Boo! I remember when they were free.

So Mom has lost all faith in humanity. But if someone was going to leave a fake number, why would they bother with a note in the first place? If anybody has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

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