Alex Meyer’s Random Rants

Please stop clogging my comments with your shit, it’s annoying and pointless.

This morning I had inadvertantly chmod -R 711′ed my ~, causing a 403 forbidden error for about 9 hours. Whoops

Last night, I managed to acquire the last good domain name still available binaryhermit.org. Once binaryhermit.org manages to fully propagate and resolves correctly and stops occasionally throwing bad_httpd_conf errors, I intend to start migrating there. However, since there are links out there that point to ameyer17.com, I intend to keep that domain active for the foreseeable future.

Today, I went to the mailbox to check the mail, and there was something in it from Domain Registry of America (I refuse to publicize these assholes, so if you care to look at their website, I suggest that you use your favorite search engine to look it up). I opened it, and there was a notice that sent me a notification of the “domain name registration that is about to expire” and that “Your registration for: ameyer17.com will expire on May 22, 2007″ and “You must renew your domain name to retain exclusive rights to it on the Web”.
All this misleading language is an attempt by these assholes to FUD me into transferring my domain to them and renew it for $30 for 1 year, $50 for 2 years, or $95 for 5 years. I refuse to deal with these assholes and I suggest that nobody else does business with them
This blog post sums up my feelings.

OK, I nuked my blog again and I’m starting from scratch, again. Hopefully, this time it’s for good.