If you’ve ever purchased (rented) a domain, you know that pretty much any name you’d want is usually already taken. Which is why when you find one that you like, whether or not you have any use for it yet, you tend to want to hold on to it. Unfortunately, while domains are pretty cheap, the more domains you have the more expensive having them gets. Which is why sometimes, you’re forced to just let them expire.
Last night I attended the wedding of some old high school friends (grats! Ben & Kim). Interestingly enough, it was the second wedding I’ve attended this month that joined together a couple that had been a couple for over eight years (grats! also to James & Nancy). When I woke up this morning I began reflecting over the wedding, the duration of the couple’s relationship, and my own past relationships. After a while, I stumbled on to an obvious, yet really interesting, fact that I hadn’t really thought of before. If you’ve ever had a relationship in your life AND you’re currently single, you effectively have a 100% failure rate for relationships.
So last thursday, just as I was about to shut down and leave the office, I received my least favorite twitter message of all time. Basically, I was informed through the tweet that my blog had been hacked. Very confused, I pulled up my browser and sure enough, my blog had been replaced by some stupid “you’ve been hacked” message. Long story short, after a lot of help from a buddy (thanks again Dave), several precautionary password changes, a complete export of my blog, a wipe of my server, a fresh install of WordPress, and an import, I was back up and running. Sort of.
Go ahead and take a quick look at your alarm clock. If you’re not home right now, close your eyes and visualize it for a moment. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. Now that you’ve got it, try to remember the alarm clock you owned before that one. Now the one before that. If you think about it, the alarm clock hasn’t really changed much over the past several years. With all the technological progress we see every day, why have there been no significant advancements in alarm clocks?
I’m not sure if everyone in the less traffic-heavy parts of the country have them too, but here in Southern California we have these intersections where you can’t make a right turn at a red light. It’s not every intersection, it’s just these specific ones. And I do get it. I understand that there are certain intersections which, due to heavy traffic during specific parts of the day, might not be the safest places to pull into traffic. The problem is that I’ve begun to notice these “no turn on red” signs showing up everywhere with little caveats attached to them, designating when you have to actually pay attention to them. This really annoys me.