I have been facelifting websites all this week. I mentioned PodCamp AZ in an earlier post and I just finished my wife’s birthday page the other day. I’m kinda proud of it, so I thought I’d link to it here. Swing by, take a look and come back to let me know what you think.

Michelle, my wife, is having her birthday this month (the 26th). And I have this crazy idea… Honestly, I have done this a couple times before, but never blogged about it or opened it up to the general population. Mainly because I’m betting that you don’t really care, but you could prove me wrong (yet once again). This year, since it’s an extra special year (she’s pregnant with our first), I thought I’d try something new and exciting. Let me start out by saying that she’s not that much of a blogger, but I’m hoping this event will inspire her to blog all the more. I know that at the very least, she will personally thank everyone who participates because she is just that kind of girl. Okay, here’s how it works… [Continued]

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I spent most of my day yesterday on the phone with Media Temple (or MT for short) on behalf of Justine Ezarik (or Justine for short). I was helping her move her blog, tastyblogsnack.com from DataCities (darn near the worst host I have ever seen) to MT. Now, before I get too deep in to this little story, I want to bring extra attention to DataCities and how crappy they are. Recently they removed all contact information except email from their website and made it virtually impossible to call them. I did extensive searching via Google and whois to find very bleak information. Eventually I found a phone number and when Justine called it, it went to some guy’s voicemail that wasn’t accepting messages because the mailbox was completely full. Needless to say, with the massive and frequent downtime that she was having, this just further enforced the reason why it was time for a switch. [Continued]

Here I am, unable to sleep once again and so I find myself plinking away through my Mint pages and I notice a link from a “random” post. With not much to do, I decide to investigate and to my surprise, I have been tagged by Kim M. Bayne and her Minced Media blog. Tagged? You may ask… Well, From what I gather, this particular tagging must result in a completely spontaneous post containing eight random facts about me. Now, I don’t consider myself all that interesting, but I’ll try to think of the most random stuff I can in hopes that you find it semi-interesting. Here goes (In no specific order) … [Continued]

So here I sit, relaxing in a nice little chair, drinking a frozen Gatorade and watching the lemmings, I mean iPhone fans that had been standing in line for over 2 hours file themselves one by one into the Apple store tonight. I leave my comfy chair only once, and just for a moment, as an Apple employed cameraman comes by to ask if he could take a picture of me in my iBAM shirt. I say yes, he says “That’s the best shirt I’ve seen all day”, I feel good about myself and return to my chair. In a way, I feel bad for these brave soles, most of them look like it’s Christmas morning, dancing and smiling for the TV cameras, digital photographers and multiple interviewers standing outside the line divider ropes that feed them into the store like cattle. “iPhone BABY!”, shouts one fan and cheering follows down the long line around the outside of the building. Some had been there all day, braving the Phoenix heat, others had paid good money for front of the line placement. I watched in amazement as very few walked out of the store with just one phone to themselves. One gentleman had four of them and quite a bounce in his step as he pranced away. I could only imagine that he was a captain of an eBay bound pirate ship, looking to make a pretty profit on the digital high seas. I wondered to myself, is it really worth all this excitement? [Continued]