Finally some good news from the “upgrade nightmare” front. Finally, finally, they shipped my upgrade copy of Vista Business on tuesday (so basically just on the day I ranted about them not shipping it, lol, did they read my blog?! ;))…now it should be only a matter of a few days until I hold it in my hands, the excitement :)
I’m usually a “collector” type of guy, but it’s time to let go. Last week I decided that I would let go of my proxy network (browsetastic.com) and put it up for sale at the MarketPlace of the great SitePoint Forums, where I’m an advisor (moderator).
Although the number of inquiries was huge, the number of bids was little…at least in the beginning. Then, it happened pretty quickly. After I posted a BIN, it was sold within 24hours…which leads me to believe that the BIN (12x net monthly revenue) was a little low, but hey, I’m not the type of guy who’s whining afterwards. I’m happy that I sold it at the price I did and all that’s left is to wait for the money to roll in and then getting everything setup to make the transfer smooth and easy…
…and on the upside, I’ve still got more than 40 sites to my name, so I’m not really retiring from the website business…and with the cash raised in the sale, I’ll get myself a new laptop (among other things) which will be put to good use in my upcoming diploma thesis… ;)
I forgot to bookmark the site I got this from, so I can’t link it up :(
…anyway…need to post this, as this one really cracked me up… :)
Man, this really sucks. Now, I’m usually not the one to jump on the train right away anyway, so it’s basically not the biggest deal, but slowly I’m getting annoyed. Why? Because I ordered a WinXP license with an upgrade coupon back in december when I built my new pc. So far so good. I then sent the upgrade coupon to Modus Link (the company handling the upgrades). That was in the first week of January. Since then I’m waiting and waiting and waiting…
Today, I checked the status again and the upgrade claim has finally been approved. Well, that’s the first step, but the thing still isn’t shipped yet. Are you kidding me? Three months and you’re unable to send me a dvd with a license sticker? Hello?! Absolutely ridiculous! The only upside: by the time I receive my copy I can be absolutely sure that there are drivers for everything in my pc and on a funny note: maybe SP1 will be already out by then ;)
After waiting and waiting and waiting on someone to have a look at my post on the WordPress support forums – without any luck – I decided trying again, finding the culprit that was causing the posts to be empty that is, not to post on the forums again.
In the end, I did nothing more or less than what I did right after the move. I don’t know why it is, but as you can see, it worked…although it didn’t work last time…hmm…weird stuff there…and although I can’t exactly figure out what went wrong here, I’m glad that everything seems to be working again.
…which brings me to the WordPress support forums: No offence guys, but my experience (granted that I tried/needed them for the first time in, well, something like 3 years) was horrible. No responses, no hints, no questions, nothing and it’s not that I didn’t try to provide as much info as I could on my problem…this is really disappointing, but hey…’s all good, I know how forums work, it’s all based on voluntary basis and well, if it’s on volunatary basis (aka you don’t pay anything for it), you can’t/shouldn’t complain if you don’t get anything out of it. So, no offence when I say: I just know that next time I run into a problem with WordPress again, I won’t even bother posting in the “troubleshooting” area, as it’s a complete waste of not worth my time…or as the orangutan from Doctor Doolittle would say: “Gracias por nada”
Well, it was time to move to a bigger server (more ram, better cpu, etc)…so it seems that everything worked out nicely, apart from the fact that all posts are displayed empty. They are in fact not empty (all the post text is in the db), but for some reason that isn’t displayed..hmm…I guess I’ll have to go bug hunting/forum searching…
Well, recently I spent quite some time catching up with new and old tv series. Roseanne was a real flashback…I can still laugh out loud when I see that one. Some of the old series I enjoyed for a long time are still running, so I have to follow these, namely emergency room, gilmore girls, smallville, las vegas and 7th heaven. Now I added some new ones to my every groing “need to watch” list:
1. NBC’s heroes – I absolutely love this one, I just can’t get enough, I’m really looking forward to every single episode, it’s just so thrilling.
2. Are you smarter than a 5th grader – rofl. This concept is so funny (and embarrassing for the candidates)!!!
3. COPS – how could I miss this all this time?!
4. American Chopper – always entertaining, I just love the custom bikes…
5. Poker After Dark (I don’t need to get too deep into this one and the following one, you can always checkout my pokerblog for more on poker)
6. High Stakes Poker – so addictive.
…and by just looking at that list of stuff I realize, I watch too much TV ;)
Yes! Yes! Yes! We did it! Handball World Champion 2007!
Nothing better than to win it, well, there is, winning it in your own country!!!
This is one for the ages, I just wanted to google something and google.de seems to be offline…something I’ve never seen before…hmm….
Wow…just had the chance to watch the stream of Steve Jobs’ keynote…
iPhone – I want one…end of story.
Source: Apple Inc.
Just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas!
Hope you have a quite and peaceful time with your family and loved ones!
Well, it’s been a while since I last upgraded my pc…almost 3 years…
So, I decided it’s time for a new one…some funky dual core stuff or something and yup, there are lots of possible configurations.
First decision: Intel or AMD?
I know that Intel’s Core 2 Duos are powerful, fast and sexy…but they’re a little more expensive too…so I thought I’d go with AMD, yet again…(my current system is an AMD Athlon XP, the one before that was an AMD, …)…
Second decision: Fastest/expensive, medium/alrighty, lower end/cheap
I decided to go with middle ground…an AMD x2 3800 it is, the Energy Efficient version of it – that’s perfect for a smaller case and it’ll help me save some energy costs, after all my pc is running most of the time. Combined with a funky mATX board, 1GB of ram (for now), 500GB Samsung SATAII (16MB Cache), DVD-burner, DVD-Rom and a nice mATX case by aplus…
The case arrived today and I’m hoping that the rest will arrive tomorrow (it was sent off by the shop today)…it’s going to be fun to build a pc, haven’t done that in a while…
Ooooh and I almost forgot, I ordered a new copy of Windows XP Pro…117€ including an Express upgrade coupon to Vista business….sounds like a good deal :)
I’ll post some pics once I’m done building…
As you may have noticed I’ve switched ads to Chitika after I’ve seen them on other blogs. So far I’m really satisfied with the results and I’ve started to add the Chitika eMiniMalls to some of my other sites, too – namely:
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Nice…after going ahead 1-0 early on with a wonderful free-kick by Fabian Kirschner (Beckham style over the defenders right in the left top corner) it was a tough match and Neckarrems had some decent chances to level things up at one a piece. Fortunately the didn’t use their chances and we were able to get the 2-o shortly before full time – Harald Ilg went one on one with the keeper and kept his cool to secure our victory.
So we stay in second place for now with 20 points, although both Neckargroeningen (1st, 21 points) and Oberstenfeld (3rd, 18 points) have one match more left to play…
Not that you can really put a price tag on a blog (or can you?), but after the recent AOL/Weblogs Inc deal there have been speculations all around the blogosphere – now there’s an easy way to calculate the value of your blog (link in pic below).
My blog is worth $3,387.24.
How much is your blog worth?
