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This is too good to not to pass along. My web hosting provider, Hostgator, is having a Black Friday Sale this year. The discount is really unbelievable, up to 80% on everything. A year of their best shared hosting plan would only be $35.88 after 80% off. Cheaper if buying 2 years or more. I wonder if I can get this discount as an existing customer? Here’s the detail they sent me:

We’re offering 50% OFF EVERYTHING From 12:00AM CST – 5AM CST

We’re offering 80% OFF EVERYTHING From 5AM – 9AM CST WHILE SUPPLIES LAST (first come, first receive; so definitely don’t miss out!)

From 9AM – 11:59PM CST OR after 80% OFF accounts have sold out, we will continue to offer 50% OFF EVERYTHING

This applies to ALL Accounts and ALL Term Lengths. So your visitors and friends will have the opportunity to receive up to 80% off of up to 3 years worth of Hosting! That would come out to $35.64 for 3 FULL YEARS!

That includes Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting AND even Dedicated Servers! Never before have we allowed the promotion on EVERYTHING including reseller, vps and dedicated servers AND ALL Term Lengths AND allowed our affiliates their full, regular commission on every sale you send us on Black Friday!

This will apply to the client’s first invoice (first term length they sign up for whether that be 1 month or for 3 years).

Incredible, no? And Hostgator is a fantastic company to work with, I have been with them for years, and using them for all my clients. Check them out! Now, I just have to make sure that I will be up during the 80% OFF hours. Wow, I must be some kind of geek, I feel like one of them shoppers that’s ready to break down the doors to claim my prizes! :lol:

I don’t think I’ve ever dedicated a post entirely to politics. Well, after watching last night’s V.P. debate, I just need to vent a little bit. I have a few points to make.

  1. Did you all notice how Palin ignored questions and answered something entirely unrelated? And she even made a point to tell us that she wasn’t going to play by the rules? OK. First agree and accept the debate format, then ignore the moderator. Nice. This just demonstrated to me that Palin is not a listener. She would tell you what SHE thinks that you want to know. Will she also decide what’s best for you without listening? It also demonstrated that she does not play well with others. She does not handle interaction with others well. Zoning in on the camera helped her focus on PREPARED talking points. And did you notice she had no reaction after Biden’s emotional moment? She was able to immediately turn to the camera and continue with her talking points. She was totally in the zone… the Sarah Palin Show zone.
  2. All the folksy talk, the Joe six-pack, the you betchas, the hockey moms, the winking, just sounded like a sales pitch. Yes I know, they were all trying to sell themselves to us. But this one reminded me a slimy car salesperson. (Sorry, but it did.) Do we want to let someone charm her way into our lives and forget about the important stuff? Haven’t we already let someone cowboy his way into our lives for the last 8 years? Do we want that to happen again? DOG GONIT!
  3. It was very convenient for her to drag Obama and Biden’s history into the equation. But when Biden mentioned Bush, it was backward thinking? HUH? And if I remember correctly, some people cannot do enough to separate themselves from the Bush administration. How do they do it? By pointing out Bush’s mistakes of course. Oh wait. Maybe Palin doesn’t need to know the past. Just like she doesn’t need to know what caused global warming to fix it.
  4. There were still moments that she did not sound coherent. Can you imagine if she HAD to answer questions and not recite prepared talking points? And yes, I DO think she memorized her answers. Oh wait, they are answers only if they can be applied to questions.

I know I am a little mean spirited this morning. But gotta get these things off my chest somehow. Thank you for reading. :-)

Thought I quickly mention this. You might have noticed that every comment on this blog is associated with an avatar. Mine has a picture of me. Most others are now associated with auto-generated avatars. (Don’t blame me if you get a bad one. It’s AUTO-GENERATED! hehehe)

WordPress uses the Gravatar system. Other places also use Gravatar for showing users’ faces (or whatever they want to show.) I think it’s pretty neat. You sign up for an account. Upload a picture or two. Add email addresses that you use for leaving comments on blogs or forums. Associate each email address with a picture you uploaded. Done. After that your chosen avatar will show up anywhere that uses Gravatar as long as you use an email address that has a Gravatar setup.

Don’t you want to set one up? :-)

May’s GLASG meeting was another fun-filled and informative one. It was good to get out of the house and stop thinking (worrying) about what’s happening in the family. Too bad the Jills weren’t there.

The highlight of the meeting was Janel’s lecture on dyeing and color theory. She is a chemist, and she brought to us so many interesting facts. I can honestly say that it was actually FUN talking about chemistry and how our eyes perceive colors. Who’d knew! :-) Janel also announced her new book, The Eclectic Sole, which is available on Amazon. How exciting for her!

Call me crazy. Yesterday I registered a new domain jasonknits.com. There’s a good reason. I want to separate the personal blog content from the Buddhist content. The goal is to give instructions to the web bots, spiders and crawlers that these belong to different domains. Anyway, the url will probably change next week from jasonknits.com/ to jasonknits.com. The feed should stay the same for RSS readers. (An advantage of using FeedBurner.) Will update on the approximate time of the move. :-)

Update, 5.17.08, 10:40am: Think I am going to work on moving the blog today. Nothing like the present moment. :-) There SHOULD be a redirecting message that informs people to update the URL. I don’t foresee any difficulties.

Update, 5.17.08, 6:56pm: Blog transfer complete. Please make a note of the new URL. I am looking to implement a redirect that will announce the change. Now it works automatically without giving any information.