Archives for August 15, 2006
A few of my favorite things from last week’s ESRI UC
A few of my favorite things from last week’s ESRI UC
US Census Press Releases
A first test post to the blog using Windows live writer (beta) – the US Census bureau has released some new data and population estimates – an updated look at how the nation’s population has changed, and the first for many communities since Census 2000 For more see http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/users_guide…
A typepad moblogging solution from sixapart
Placebase Pushpin LE API and the dataplace offering up some fine functionality
Do you know who handles your domain name registration? Beware
Do you know who manages your domain name registration? You best be careful or you could get screwed around big time! Some advice.. recently I had a really bad experience with a company that handles some of my domain name registrations (luckily its only my personal and secondary stuff.. not all the important ones!!) I renewed 3 domain names and paid the annual fee via credit card, no problemo. Then, low-and-behold, about 2 weeks later the updates hadn’t taken effect. Naturally I’m getting weirded out thinking that I may lose the rights to the domains. So I start contacting the company via the contact form, tech support etc… I do this over and over again and get nothing back, no feedback, nada. So now I’m getting really weirded out and move a couple of the more important domains over to godaddy… luckily the move takes effect. So, I continue to try to get in touch with them to no avail. Naturally, I decide to do the smart thing and I totally flip out on their tech support via email…. really, it was a masterpiece! Their reaction… they yank the freaking plug on all my domains.. yes that’s right.. now none of them are accessible, and get this, they have locked them up so that I can’t transfer any of them… NICE! NEedless to say that I’m pretty much prepared to rip someone’s head off. I’m still battling with them and hearing nothing, thankfully I have a friend who does webhosting for me and also handles domain reg. so he’s slowly having luck getting the names moved but its a real pain. So, let this be a lesson.. use only reputable firms (tucows, godaddy etc…) and NEVER ever use jumpdomain.com – lesson learned! Obviously I’d love to go legal on these guys but it really isn’t a feesible option
Dell recalls notebook batteries
Puchase a Dell notebook lately? The company has issues a recall on the following: The batteries in question, made by Sony Corp., are in notebooks shipped between April 1, 2004, and July 18 of this year. The recalled batteries were sold with the following Dell notebook computers: Dell Latitude(TM) D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810; Inspiron(TM) 6000, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 500m, 510m, 600m, 6400, E1505, 700m, 710m, 9400, E1705; and Dell Precision(TM) M20, M60, M70 and M90 mobile workstations; and XPS(TM), XPS Gen2, XPS M170 and XPS M1710. (Source: CBC) – now I wonder if the recall will enable me to trade in my piece of crap “premium, long life” battery that I upgraded to which provides me with a whopping 3 hours of life! – for more see www.dellbatteryprogram.com or call toll-free at 1-866-342-0011.
another not-so-familiar face absent from ESRI UC
Not a surprise to me at all, I didn’t see Geocomm, gisdatadepot, geocommunity, thinkburst, Geocomm International, or whatever the hell you want to call them – at the ESRI UC this year. Not sure what they would sell or promote anyway since free GIS data is pretty much available everywhere on the web WITH metadata too! The company actually used to be an ESRI reseller, however, I suspect that since they were into ESRI for so much cash for past ArcView sales (as well as countless other creditors who’ve never been paid) they likely used up the old welcome invites…