I have had good luck with Driectnic for registering and also hosting
a web site.
Stewart
At 07:15 PM 10/6/2007, you wrote:
Well, was up more than half the night trying to negotiate GoDaddy,
for getting first Domain and also website, wordtracker sites for
websites, and finally, fiddling with trying to print out business
cards on old HP LaserJet printer (bought in 94, still
kicking!). Why would a sane person do all this? Well, in order to
have business cards to take for networking purposes to the
Greenfestival in D.C. today and tomorrow. And, of course, if one is
going to update business cards (old ones are so old they don't even
have email address) then, of course, one would like to have their
blog and website on them, which, of course, means first getting the
blog up (sort of did that a few days ago) and a website up and
domain name registered, right? And, of course, having learned, from
recent seminars on websites & business (including one at CPUG
meeting a month ago) about the importance of "key words," certainly
have to fool around with these key word sites, right?
And, just when you think you've figured out a solution for how to
get some business cards together on very short notice (without
spending much moola) by learning how to print them yourself, of
course the printer or something or many things involved decide not
to cooperate, and even play a bad joke, by making it almost appear
at one point that its actually working. But, alas, on more careful
inspection, the wording on the cards is all off, enough to ruin the
whole deal, like having your phone number show up on another
card. Curiously, does work with plain paper or printing one card at
time, but printing 10 at a time on the cardstock just leads to these
fatal misalignments.
So, this far in to my sad tale (or rant, take your pick), here's
maybe my main question: Any ideas WHY the printer gods are
punishing me thus, however subtly? Could it be an outdated printer
driver? Tried to update it, at the end of all of this, but can't
even tell if this actually occurred.
But I digress from the kicker to this tale of self-inflicted
woe....As a result of being up half the night fiddling with all of
this and a good part of the remainder of the night just not being
able to sleep (so what the hell, get up at 5, after maybe 2 hrs
sleep, and fiddle some more, right?!), I ended up blowing off the
Greenfestival entirely, which was the very impetus for all this last
minute urgency and scrambling! So much for the best laid plans of a
misguided man! But, as they say, there's always tomorrow, and maybe
by then I'll have a card or two, say, to hand to Ralph Nader after
his closing talk. And at least I like irony.
Where's Nader been, anyway, when it comes to all the problems with
high tech so many of us seem to be increasingly having (not even
counting this experience as part of that)? Maybe he'll surprise and
announce that he's joining the fray we call Presidential
elections. At least it would add some real entertainment, to go
along with a weekend full of green. In fact, Nader once ran as a
"Green," now he's speaking to the Greenies; no doubt about the
problems caused by all those who are consumed by "green" of another
sort. And, while being "green" when it comes to things like
computers and printing cards or creating websites is not generally a
desirable thing to be, when it comes to becoming the world's most
consequential person, being "green" doesn't seem to be all that bad
a thing; maybe even a good thing, actually, by some accounts. But,
of course, "green" or not, anyone wanting to seriously play the
Presidential game sure needs a lot of the green stuff. Agreed?
There will be, as they say, a "second chance" tomorrow - so long
as I don't repeat the whole thing tonight, toiling into the wee
hours again, trying to print cards that line up right, figure out
how to do this or that in setting up a website, figuring out what
happened to GoDaddy's wonderful-sounding promises of free blogging, etc.
So going to have to do the hardest thing of all related to computers
(at least for me) - turn the damn thing off and keep it off at some
reasonable hour!! :) Why, oh why, can't someone invent a timed lock
for a computer, like a bank lock, or a lock which someone at a
remote location has control over? We don't ask alcoholics to hang
around in bars for hours a day, then also be their own bartenders or
bouncers, do we?!
As far as "Go Daddy," so far my experience with them has been more
like, "Yo, Your Mamma!" Hopefully, this will just be a bad,
passing first impression someday. You go, daddy; I'm either going
to sleep or going to go bananas. Now maybe if I can crash as easily
tonight as many computers seem so able to do!
Randy
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