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I went through GoDaddy to register my domains for my sites; I’ve been hearing bits of negative feedback lately about their hosting services. Now stories are getting more and more common:

GoDaddy is the registrar of several of my domain names. While I do think that their web hosting is crap, so far they have performed well as a registrar.

That being said, it looks like other people are not having the same luck with their services lately. Yesterday Mashable covered the story of a website that was suspended by GoDaddy due to “suspicious activity.”

Browsing around the web I also came across a website called NoDaddy, which is dedicated to report horror stories from users that got damaged by the company.

Read how GD screws over customers. I wonder how long this company can stay open for business with practices like these? Good thing there are alternatives.

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Americans outsource to get cheaper labor for unskilled labor and now we are starting to outsource teaching of basic skills.

The outsourcing trend that fueled a boom in Asian call centers staffed by educated, low-paid workers manning phones around the clock for U.S. banks and other industries is moving fast into an area at the heart of U.S. culture: education.

This is bad.

A New Delhi tutoring company, Educomp Solutions Ltd., estimates the U.S. tutoring market at $8 billion and growing. Online companies, both from the United States and India, are looking to tap millions of dollars available to firms under the U.S. No Child Left Behind Act for remedial tutoring.

Teachers unions hope to stop that from happening.

But you might think the language barrier or accent is bad.

Denise Robison said Taylor had trouble understanding her tutor’s accent at first. “Now that she is used to it, it doesn’t bother her at all,” she said.

Will this be worse than what our Teachers are doing to our students now?

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I am trying the latest Ecto blogging tool.

Some people say Ecto is pretty good

ecto for Windows has been updated to work with MSN Spaces.

how about some bold and italized
What else do I want to do?
Update: So the track back is not working. I have to figure out the WYSIWYG thing because the return does not publish automatically.
how about an immage added here
nope, there is no functionality to do that. lets see where did that go?

Technorati Tags: Ecto

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good night to figure out that I’m pretty Anonymous in this blog world. But I want to hang around some of the pretty people.
then I found MacStansbury has a group just for me.

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One Year ago this month (24 Nov) this blog started.
Sometime tonight this blog will have it’s 20,000 visitor.

Some of my friends get that much traffic in a month. but they are much better writers, have better stories, and look much better than I do. I just want to hang out with them because they are so much better than me. That blows me away.

After my first post here, which was very lame and then I didn’t have any posts up until December. Then in December I was able to bug Harvey who is still one of my favorite guys on in the sphere.

I was learning many things about blogging and the amount of time it can take to be really good, I think some of the better writers are good without the time it seems to take me.
I meet some friends like Bill Faith when I read his promise to Brianna and started to post on the Heroes Act fo 2005

I even tried some stale jokes
Margi was my first commenter and now she is having a baby…I have already meet many people that I want to meet in real life. and I have meet some in real life that are really cool and a lot smarter than I.

One of my good friends Raven started commenting on Jan 24th this blog was two months old.
I had joined (kicking and screaming into a group blog and then out of it again only to join/help with another because of Raven.
I meet Ogre on Dec 3rd after I had commented on his site..

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Even Microsoft needs a quality Operating System.

Aruba Networks was selected to provide the networking equipment for what is considered to be one of the world’s largest next-generation wireless LANs, serving more than 25,000 simultaneous users a day in some 60 countries. According to an Aruba press statement, Microsoft’s new WLAN will be deployed in 277 buildings covering more than 17 million square feet using Aruba mobility controllers, mobility software and some 5000 wireless access points.

What the press statement didn’t mention is that Aruba mobility controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows as part of its “Get the Facts” marketing campaign.

Mark Robards, Aruba Network’s Asia-Pacific vice president, said the company’s mobility controller switches provide integrated security, including a firewall, VPN, and hardware encryption, and they are “all Linux-based”.

Robards said the network rollout with Microsoft is going well and is likely to take two years to complete and will contain as many as 7000 access points. Indeed, Aruba is recruiting Linux developers to work on its mobility controller software. In an advertisement on the company’s Web site, Aruba is seeking a senior Linux software engineer with “expert knowledge of Linux and extensive Linux kernel experience”.

Sunjeev Pandey, senior director of Microsoft IT, said the company is “pleased to be partnering with Aruba in the upgrade of Microsoft’s next-generation wireless LAN”.

“This partnership will allow Microsoft to leverage a cutting-edge wireless and mobility platform that provides us the scalability, performance and security that our environment demands,” Pandey said.

Pandey’s appraisal of Aruba’s technology is in stark contrast to Microsoft’s “Get the Facts” rhetoric which places Windows as a more secure, and higher-performing choice over Linux.

Good thing Microsoft makes billions in PROFIT each quarter so they can write off all of the anti-linux marketing costs sunk into slamming linux…

H/T: Geek Ramblings

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I want my cow Buetooth enabled!

Mobile Pipeline reports: “Blip Systems said in a statement that it has developed a Bluetooth-mesh system in which sensors are placed on cows. That enables farmers to monitor the location and health of each animal, the company said in a statement.”

OK not as bad as it sounds but totally unexpected. Farmers and Ranchers getting technology! Never thought I would see the day.
Hat tip: BlueSeeker

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Group Map for People that visit Flight Pundit
Go add yourself to the map for me.

hat Tip to R’Cat’s husband for finding this thing.

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Rob at Business Pundit is getting paid to blog by American Express.

Companies that want to work with bloggers have to let go of the control. Yes, it is risky. But without risk, there is no reward

Hey AmEx, you can pay me too…
Lets see what Rob has to say comming up.

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What’s new in ‘92

This from Weblogs.Com News (Now Scripting News) Which is a good site for what maters in the internet world and blogging specifically.

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This is really Cool in a geeky kind of way

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Cool Family Photos

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by FlB with this “Five Things Meme”
when I met her last week I must not have told her about paybacks? Sorry FlB, you might have to learn the hard way.

5 things I plan to do before I die:
1. Meet the lady of my life that wants to do the other four things on this list
2. Race an full Iron Man Triathlon
3. Run another Marathon (If I forget how bad the last one hurt)
4. Bag the last 22 14′ers in my list
5. Learn to swim (good enough to race an Iron Man)

5 things I can do:
1. Blow things up
2. Fly a Plane
3. Ride a horse
4. Figure out computers
5. Piss off my twin sister

5 things I cannot do:
1. Figure out women
2. Not be competitive
3. Run fast
4. Focus on only one thing
5. Think after a long work day

5 things that attract me to the opposite sex:
1. Blonds
2. Brunets
3. Redheads
4. Bright eyes
5. Intelligence

5 things I say most often:
1. Splain it to me Lucy
2. You did what?
3. Manage Material, Lead people
4. Good job
5. Lets talk

I will tag the following people Seth, R’Cat, Mad Dog Vinne

FlB, thanks for making me go through this.
Go check out the rest also…

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Calling all bloggers!

A friend of mine is a radio talk show host for an AM radio station and brought up the topics of blogs on his show this evening. His basic contention was that blogs are not useful, powerful or read. He doesn’t have a blog because he does not believe it is a valuable use of his time (that is…no one reads them). He wanted to know if he was wrong or misinformed.

Now I know of the power of blogs, have seen newspapers corrected by blogs (Little Green Footballs is a great example of blogs catching what the media doesn’t), I’ve seen the media turn to blogs for information for stories…I’ve seen blogs influence things such as the International Freedom Center. What I’d like to do is give him a little taste of the power of blogs!

So, if you have 10 seconds and an email address, I’d like to send him some emails from bloggers and blog readers. I’ve set up the link below to automatically create an email from you to him, CC to me (I get an email sent to me as well) with the subject of “Are Blogs Powerful?” and the text of the email as, “Hi Chris, I heard through blogger Holly Aho that you were questioning the power of blogs. I’m a blogger/blog reader. She wrote a blog post requesting a few emails be sent to you to show you blogs are read and listened to. Here’s my email!”

As the emails are CC’d to me I’ll keep a tally of how many are sent and keep you updated. I’d like to have a few thousand sent to him - that would get the message across! (As we’re friends he’ll forgive me the massive amounts of emails - he’ll probably enjoy it! lol). I figured that it’s better to simply prove a point than debate the issue. I think this will do that nicely.

here is the email Email AM 1500 Chris Krok

hat Tip to Scott at Speed of Thought

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