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Why you haven’t heard from me

So I’m currently living up in Toronto.  Toronto is great, we play hockey on Saturday nights, cool city, great friends, fun stuff all around.  That being said, I’m not sure how long I’ll last up here.  I did buy a hockey stick, so that’s saying something right, But I am still pushing the entrepreneur angle and having a blast en route.  My latest two projects that are live are enviropuresolutions.ca, and then two more that go together, MissouriQuiltCo.com and QuiltersDailyDeal.com. The latter two have been a great experience for me really. Seeing something go from foundation to turn key is something exciting no matter what, and to be able to build something that will have a direct impact on several people I am personally connected to is a very rewarding feeling. I’m excited to see where it goes. But that’s been my life for 20+ hours a day, 6 days a week. I’m anxious to watch TV again, I feel like I’ve been away from life. But now that the foundation is laid and things are moving along, I’m scheduling in a bit more sleep and some exercise (this chair and ice cream sandwiches are a cruel mistress)

So anyway, I’m still floating really, in a great situation, but it’s definitely temporary, which is frustrating all over again. But alas, I shant bore you with the gory details of my inner workings.

As a side note, I’ll be manually restoring 3 years worth of thenyelabs.com for posterity, so if your rss feed starts wigging out on you, that’s what’s going on.

Enjoy

My adventures with 1and1 internet hosting

So again, I must apologize for the down time.  I am back up on a great new host – midphase.com  Their customer service has been tremendous and it’s a nice change from 1and1 internet hosting who were terrible.  Needless to say I was down for another 4 days following my fiasco so a total of about a full week down over the course of 2 weeks.  My favorite exchange from teh tech support calls went like this -

Me: So I’ve been down 3 days, 2 days, and now going on 4 more days, do you know what your garuntee is for uptime on your servers?

Support: Well not exactly sir

Me: 99.9% uptime

Support: Oh yes, that’s right

Me: Are you aware how much time is allowable to be down under such a promise?

Support: Ahh sir, but it’s only 99.9% we do expect for some down time

Me: 20 minutes a month is allowable under your promise, so knowing that, would you say that it’s a little unreasonable to expect me to be okay with my site being down for almost 8 days?

Support: I can’t say exactly sir

Me:  Well, can you understand why I might be frustrated with the situation?

Support: I don’t know sir, I can’t say

and it gets more ridiculous from there.  I love support centers and the powerless people paid to jerk you around in such scenarios, with the ultimate frustration being they really can’t do a darn thing about it.