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I Thought I Did a Decent Amount of Business with GoDaddy

I got an interesting e-mail that was almost a bubble burster for me from GoDaddy today:

Dear Chris Short,
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you? 
Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you […]

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The Quest Continues for an RSS Reader

I am dumbfounded at this point.  I love RSS; I love the all the news at your fingertips ability it gives you.  However, I hate RSS readers.  Every single one I’ve tried has had a feature that really turned me off to it.  I’ve tried a lot of news readers and there is always something […]

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The Downfall of Quality Parenting and Society as a Whole

Wednesday night Aubree played in her Kindergarten program, Down on the Farm. Aubree and the other Kindergarteners did a fabulous job putting on a great show. I’m pretty damn proud of my child at this point.
However, the parents of the Kindergarteners were the ones that absolutely baffled me. I can not completely blame the parents […]

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Why Gamers are Anti-Social

I had an epiphany this weekend while I watched my wife play an old video game on our Xbox. I was not feeling well so I thought it to be smart to law on the couch and attempt to spend time with my wife. I was not looking for sympathy. I quickly […]

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Lovely WordPress Quirk

I was installing WordPress on a domain yesterday and downloaded the WordPress recommended Widgets Theme Pack. I then unpacked the Widgets Theme Pack in the ‘themes’ directory, pick a theme, and off I went to do other things. Not so fast, after leaving the blog alone for about an hour I noticed […]