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Dead Email
October 07, 2005

My email service went dead yesterday after I changed my DNS pointer over to use Webmail.us’ email server. It’s not their fault, though; it’s the fault of eNom, who provides their DNS services.

Apparently since my domain is registered with Registerfly, who is an eNom reseller, eNom won’t let a different company host the DNS records for that domain. Nevermind that I don’t really care about their agreements. Silly resellers of domain hosting.

So anyhow, I signed up for Premium service with DNS Made Easy.

YouTube?
October 07, 2005

Plus they’ve got this whole community site thing going over there, where you can search for videos by tag (yeah, like Flickr), watch them, and leave comments. It’s actually not too shabby. Certainly better than Vimeo, which is fixated on the whole Quicktime playback. Ew.

Have I mentioned that I’m trying the FAlbum plugin? You can see my Flickr photos on this site!

Server Service Update
October 06, 2005

Well, it has been an interesting week in the web server arena. I’ll be glad when the transition is over, so I can stop goofing with settings and start actually using things.

Incidentally, this is only the second full post I’ve written on the new server, and I hadn’t even taken the time to appreciate how much snappier everything is. Ahh…

But I have signed up for a couple of hosting services that should hopefully spread resources out and keep my web hosting cheap.

Why I Hate My Microsoft Mouse Scroll Wheel
October 06, 2005

I have one of Microsoft’s higher-end wireless mouses. One of the newer features they’ve incorporated with this one is the tilt wheel that lets you scroll left or right. It doesn’t have all kinds of extra buttons, and the shape of the mouse pleases me.

But the scrollwheel. I hate it. It doesn’t “click” as you scroll; instead, it scrolls smoothly. This has two ill effects. First, it’s very susceptible to something falling into the mechanism and making the wheel tacky, but only in certain radii. So right now I can scroll up smoothly, but as soon as 2 inches of screen goes by, the whole scroll wheel feels like it’s submerged in gummy bear protoplasm. But that’s nothing compared to the other annoyance.