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To continue the “pictures of DS games I saw at a store in Austria” series, here’s a picture of the only version of Pokemon to feature a robust regular expression engine:
I’ve heard time and again that English is a difficult language to learn. However, during my stay in Austria (where English training is mandatory for all students), most people I talked to expressed their view that English was a very easy language to learn, especially compared to their native language, German.
This DS game is clearly the reason why:
After all, who wouldn’t want to learn English from that guy?
It’s the 4th of July, the 232nd year anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s writing of a politely indignant letter to Great Britain. As such, you should probably watch this video:
At long last, Freakified.net has returned!
So, what happened?
Well, after Frozen Midnight Hosting (link still dead as of this writing) happily took my money, I was provided with some stellar service involving quite a bit of downtime. However, during my journey abroad, both Freakified.net and all of Frozen Midnight’s corporate sites went down completely, the latter being replaced with GoDaddy parking pages. After I returned, I began calling the owner’s personal phone number (which I had obtained from an excellent, free historical whois database, and leaving voicemails. I never received a response. Sending emails was also pointless, as all the domains at which they were hosted no longer existed. So I was stuck without a working site, and, more importantly, without control of the Freakified.net domain. (Having been registered through Frozen Midnight, I didn’t technically own the domain.)
As a last resort, I decided to try using internet phone directories to find potential alternate contact lines. After a few hours of searching, I was only able to dig up a single piece of information: the owner’s mom’s phone number. Reluctantly, I called the number, and the person who answered was (understandably), rather pissed off that I’d called. Nevertheless, she took down my info.
The next day, the owner of Frozen Midnight finally called me back, saying that he’d received a call from his mom, and that he would begin the transfer as soon as he had the necessary information. I thus left a message, and within a few days, I received an email notification from GoDaddy saying that the domain had been pushed onto my account.
As of today, Freakified.net is now hosted on HostGator, which had already impressed me with their service. Hopefully, they won’t turn out to be another Frozen Midnight.
In conclusion, Frozen Midnight is the greatest hosting company ever.
I think wordpress needs something equivalent to a vacation responder. For example, it could auto-generate inane posts for me.
On that note, my excuse for not posting for the next month is that I’m in Austria.
Also,
So I think that my hosting company needs to advertise it’s 80% uptime as a feature. For example:
Tired of your customers’ constant bantering? Now your small business can finally have the iron-clad excuse it needs to get out of providing goods or services in a timely fashion. Just think–sleeping in every day could be an “our website went down” away!
On that note, I think I’ll be switching away from Frozen Midnight. I have to wonder though…am I their only customer? I feel like the whole thing is just run by some kid in his basement.
I apologize for the lack of a post and…existence for the last day or two, but it seems my wonderful hosting company has taken a likeing to randomly dropping off the face of the Earth.
Anyone know of a better one?
So as you probably didn’t notice, I upgraded this site to the lastest version of everyone’s favorite content management system! Not only did the upgrade go seamlessly, but it was done almost completely automatically, thanks to the Wordpress Automatic Update plugin!
Wordpress 2.5 has so far proved itself a worthwhile upgrade–it features a greatly improved user interface, automatic plugin updating, and writing posts without Windows Live Writer is now bearable!
I have also now enabled page caching, so hopefully pages will load a bit faster now.
