Archive for January, 2008

Lunarpages gets personal

Over at Web Hosting talk, someone claiming to be an employee of Lunarpages posted what he/she called the truth (here’s a link):
how bout a little from you Merlain’s Lair?
Merlain’s Lair = Scott Wilson
Merlain’s Lair = Disgruntled X-employee of Lunarpages
Merlain’s Lair = The guy that knew Lunarpages was “testing” the 404 error page and getting ready [...]

Lunarpages on the brain?

So…
I was recently promoted at my job. I’ve been doing the tasks for a while now and had been given a list of things they want me to accomplish. They finally announced the promotion Friday making it all the way official. Today was the day to start the tasks on my list I couldn’t do [...]

Dreamhost and Lunarpages

There’s been quite the scandal in the web hosting world lately. Dreamhost, a rather large web hosting provider and the company that happens to be my web host, had a major billing snafu. In a nutshell, during a manual update of their billings they accidentally billed for December 2008 (it should have been 2007). This [...]

Water is my friend

Water is my friend. Water is my friend. Water is my friend. This is what I have to remind myself every time I go get some boring old water to drink. Which happens to be every day. (You know… because if you don’t drink water you’ll die n’ stuff..)
I’m not a big water drinker. I [...]

Random diabetes - Thursday Thirteen #19

I haven’t had a chance to do a Thursday Thirteen in a while.. so here’s thirteen thoughts about my diabetes that randomly pop into my head from time to time.

Living with diabetes sucks. Maybe that’s not so random.. but.. it’s true and I think that at least once a month.
Metformin is a strange name for [...]

Dear east coast people

Some of us are a bit behind. When it’s 8 PM your time, it’s only 5 PM our time. We are just sitting down to dinner and finishing up homework while you watch shows like American Idol and Survivor. Once we’re done with that we have a few minutes to catch up on blogs and [...]

January = drowning in paperwork

At the end of every year I try to gather all the receipts for that year: all the utility bill receipts, bank statements, medical information, explanation of benefits, all of it, and file them away. I can never get it done before the end of January because there are always bills or receipts I’m waiting [...]