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| Tuesday, November 20, 2001 |
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Go to Hell-O 
| | Two years ago I registered several domain names with Register.com. Cluelog.com was one. Ocode.com was another. Obuilder.com was another. I wasn't interested in renewing them (well, maybe Cluelog). So I decided to let them lapse out. Register.com sent me notices that the names were expiring, but I ignored them. |
| | E-MAIL INVOICE FOR DOMAIN REGISTRATION/RENEWAL |
| | Please see the register.com Services Agreement (link below). |
| | register.com is in receipt of valid credit card information for payment and confirms the following: |
| | Subscription Length: 1 year |
| | Amount Charged (US$): $34.99 |
| | If you feel that this charge is in error or do not wish to renew the domain name(s) listed above, please contact register.com immediately in one of the following ways: |
| | Contact a Customer Support representative online by visiting: |
| | (A URL that allows me to kill the domain name and have a credit issued on the credit card) |
| | Toll free in the U.S. and Canada: (877) 209-1434 |
| | Outside the U.S. and Canada: +1 (212) 798-9277 |
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| | Registrant agrees to the terms and conditions of the current Services Agreement. |
| | I guess it's an opt-out service agreement. |
| | Is this a sucky system? A little presumptuous, perhaps? I think so. |
With a plot like a Southern novel
| | When I lived between Hillsborough and Chapel HIill, I had no idea that the former was a Literary Community. Seems it is. Thanks for the link to Don McArthur. |
Freebloggery
| | David Williams points to Freeblogger on SourceForge, about which he says, I think that FreeBlogger could lower the barrier of entry to the Weblogging world.... I feel that Weblogging in general is a peoples' journalism... and therefore, all people should have an equal opportunity to maintain one. |
| | I'm not sure opportunity is the real issue here (or if there's an issue at all), since I don't see anything standing in the way of anybody blogging, courtesy of Userland, Pyra and others. But maybe David can tell us more on his blog. |
| | Semi-speaking of which, if you're looking to get deeper on the whole open source subject (or just part of it, which I think David is getting at with Freeblogger), check out Jonathan Peterson's blog. He's another thinker/programmer/journalist (among many other things, it's clear). Here's something he adds by email: |
| | Open Source will never deliver a vertical market product (i.e. a hospital billing system) because it cannot serve a narrow customer base. BUT it is a fine way to create coding infrastructure": HTML servers, intra-application communication standards, etc. Because there can be no political machinations or hidden agendas in the development of features. |
| | What's clear to me is that blogs would not exist or improve constantly if commercial developers were not doing creative work and giving stuff away. |
We've called some bloggers worse, no?
Hell 2.0
| | I keep getting Type 2 crashes with Eudora on the laptop, along with lots of other stuff that isn't quite working, either. Arg. |
Our Founding Blogfathers
| | Steve MacLaughlin over at Saltire has nominated (with help from Chris Locke) three Blogfathers: Samuels Pepys and Johnson and James Boswell. |
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