100 Things about me. I was brutally honest there.
More when I’m not in a hurry.

Something awesome coming soon!

I may be getting that .com I wanted back in March, after all.
Before anyone gets upset about my chronic domain purchasing (this will be five that I bought this year), I want to say that I pre-paid for the domain via a back order, in January, when I was first contemplating getting a new domain. For some reason, Enom dropped the name last night after the WhoIS said they had renewed the domain name until 2010. Oh well. If that happens, I may move my blog there, if/when I get the name. Right now it’s in the redemption period, but the actual website is no longer active.
In the meantime, I have a small proposition to make for my readers here.
I’m currently using MovableType for my blog, since I cannot get WordPress to install on this god-forsaken server, and it’s a pain in the butt. I have a nice, crisp twenty-dollar bill here, in the form of a PayPal transaction, for anyone who can do the following for me:
Install WordPress on a cPanel-based website (you’ll get your own login to do that), without using fantastico. For some reason that gives an error.
Import my layout and entries. This can be tricky, but you can purchase a theme from themespress.com for $10.
So basically you’ll get the $10 for that back and $5 to install the wordpress and another $5 to import my entries and tweak the layout. Of course if you’re excellent at tweaking or making themes, you don’t need to use themespress.com, and you’d make a complete $20 profit.
Any takers? Leave a comment with an actual email address or email me:

Put something about the design in the subject line.

For the first month or so, I accepted paid ads from EntreCard here on my blog. I did this because I know how managing a site such as EntreCard can be. Places that offer free services aren’t money making places. Rackspace isn’t cheap. Hosting isn’t cheap. Domain management sure isn’t cheap. I’m assuming a place like that needs constant monitoring.
Back in March of 2001, there was a site called theendoffree.com (it no longer exists–a porn company has purchased it. If you’re interested in what was on that site, an archive exists). It illustrated on how the free services of the web were disappearing. Even for a while Blogger.com offered a paid service. It removed ads from blogspot hosted blogs, and allowed people to alter the time stamp to their posts. Much of like it is now, only for a fee.
What sparked this change of mind? Several things. I was conversing with a friend of mine, and they commented that Geocities.com is closed. All the free sites hosted on Geocities will be removed at the end of the year. I think they were the most popular free-hosted site, probably because they’ve been around for over a decade. I had a Geocities site in high school. I was one of the first people who signed up with them. This conversation led to the prices of “free” services on the web, and how costly they are for their owners, in both time and money.
As much as I support these free services for communities, especially the ones that bring together bloggers, and if I can, I contribute financially, I can’t condone some of the paid ads or the rotation that’s going on in EntreCard these days. I will continue to use it, but I probably will never accept another paid ad again. Especially since I know that I won’t be seeing any of that money. If I want commercial/paid advertising on my site, I can offer ad space from Google Ads. Other than that, I believe paid advertising is prohibited on my web host, so I cannot continue to have the paid ads here, even if I want them. So as of today, May 1st, no more paid ads. I feel so … free. =)