I’ve been quiet on my blog lately. Trust me, its not for a lack of having things I want to talk about. I’ll start up again soon. In the mean time, I thought I’d post a quick one about what I’ve been up to.
First, DirecTV did it to me again. They pushed down an update without telling me first (or after). The update has one really nice feature that I miss from my TiVo: backing up ~5 seconds when you are fast-fowarding and then hit “play.” That was probably the biggest thing to adjust to when I made the switch to my TiVo. Its nice to have that feature again. — Yet, it caused all sorts of shows to stop recording for no reason. After working with a “qualified” tech for over an hour, I realized it would take less time to just re-add them to the list. Now that I’ve done that, things are working well again.
Next, I finally had it with my personal site’s ISP. I’ve blogged about this before because they have great deals but horrible customer service. They approached me about a domain name that was about to expire (one I WANTED to let expire) and that started a downward spiral. The end of the story is that I couldn’t stand dealing with them, never got explanations for odd problems and outages and finally decided to move on. I am in the process of moving that site to ICDSoft.com, which is where this domain is hosted. I think that’s a good decision.
And last, my side-project is taking off like I never expected. The community involved in it keeps growing and its been fun to see the site grow from a simply family web page to one of the fastest growing Disney-fan site community on the internet right now. Even Google’s news.google.com polls us for news stories now! I just can’t seem to get used to searching for Disney news on news.google.com and seeing my own site appear in the results. How cool!
Enough of an update for now.
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