Lessons learned this week:

My ISP has been having troubles.

For the second time in a week, they’ve lost DNS.

This took me a while to figure out, because while I was unable to get anywhere by name but could via IP on my windows machines (which points to the DNS servers being down), I was able to get out via name from my linux box.

That didn’t make a whole lot of sense.

I finally got curious enough to look into my conf file on the linux box and discovered that at one point I had added another DNS server to the mix (must have done that when there was a problem in the past).

So… I’ve been calling my ISP, but their either not open yet or not answering the phone.

My contract with them ends in October and may end completely if they don’t give me a damn good reason to stay with them. I pay for a year at a time, and I’m not paying the typical DSL rates, I have a corperate package (with multiple static IP’s). I’m going to start calling around to see if I can get the same thing from someone else.

Of course, if I do that, the owners of the 40 some-odd domains I host will need to change the DNS entries for their domain. Should be interesting.

As my back is absolutely useless, I’m at home today (hence, the lack of webcam activity for the one or two of you who care).

I’ve got an appointment to see my doctor tomorrow morning about it. From the way things feel both in my back and in my leg, they’re probably gonna have to cut me open again (as it’s getting to be the way it was before my last surgery).

Oh boy! Wheeee! Can’t wait for that!!

So I’m going to spend the day in my chair, watching daytime TV, and moving very little (unless I get the itch to play a little BF1642 DC… then you probobly can find me over at Thaiguy’s server… specifically 206.66.81.7:14567). Oh yeah… I live the rockstar life!

For those of you who don’t partake in the BRHF (the official forum of wwbd), Eve posted this link yesterday: Caffeine Machine (how friggin’ cool is that?!?)

I was approached a couple days ago with an interesting proposition: replace a product that’s currently in existence with one that is more compatible with current environments and contains a ton of new features that make it more business oriented.

After speaking to my brother-in-law… I believe we’re going to take a run at it (his eyes lit up when I told him about it)

The initial calculations for revenue from the sales looks good, and the residuals from monthly service contracts are pretty solid. Without going into any details on exactly what it is, there is the potential for making > $800,000 initially… $240,000 a year on service. I can live with those numbers.

I’ll let you know how things pan out.

It’s the aftermath of Monday, and I feel it.

I spent most of last night attempting to buy things for my eldest son. He’s grown beyond what he used to like in clothes (which is whatever we bought for him) and has developed his own individual sense of style. In plain english… those $8 t-shirts no longer work for him… he needs the $30+ ones.

Damn teenagers!

It was fun shopping with him, but I had problems paying for it. Apparently my bank’s link went down so my debit and credit cards wouldn’t work (and I hadn’t brought my checkbook). Since the link was down, I couldn’t even get money out of the ATM. Thank God I had my other cards with me (though it’s pretty embarassing when your card doesn’t go through… they just stare at you like you’re a bad person).

I’m still working on the site to attempt to make it more Netscrape friendly. If you use Netscape and you’re having issues with how the page displays (ie. It’s all white with black text). I’ve done a number of things to attept to correct it, changing lines of code and adding a .htaccess file so that Netscape parses css files properly.

Sigh…

No link of the day today. I’ll try to find something for tomorrow.