I just recently changed my domain registar from Dotster.com to GoDaddy.com.  I did this mainly because Dotster started to charge for the DNS manager...$10 per year.  During the transfer, I got this email from Dotster:

We’d like to encourage you to stay by offering you reduced account pricing. If you choose to take advantage of this offer and cancel your transfer, we will permanently reduce your registration, renewal, and transfer pricing. Your new pricing will include $8.95 registrations and renewals along with $7.75 transfer pricing. We DO NOT charge an ICANN fee, as most other registrars do. The new pricing applies to the following TLD’s - .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .us. Just click on “renew domains” below to take advantage of this offer and cancel your transfer. The new pricing will apply to all future registrations and renewals as well, and is effective immediately.

This actually frustrated me even more.  So in order to get the cheaper rate, you have to threaten them to leave.  That's is not a business model that I want to be a part of.  If they can offer that rate, then it should be the normal rate.

My daughter's speech teacher was killed this morning at 3:30 am.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal accident that took place on I-275 south of SR 125 in Union Township, Clermont County, early Sunday morning.

Police say Kathryn Haumesser, 27, of Amelia, was driving a 1997 Saturn in the northbound, right lane of a construction zone around 3:30 a.m. when she was struck by an oncoming pickup truck head-on.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/02/26/275_fatal.html

Not sure what we tell our daughter.  very tragic.

It has been almost 9 years since I brewed my last batch of beer.  Tonight, we bottled an October Fest beer.  Here's the wife capping: 


And the boy packing: 

To my surprise on my way to work, WBOB 1160 AM changed their format to all Oldies.  If I recall, they were in the middle of a 10,000 song marathon.  I really enjoyed WBOB.  They had some of my favorite talk show hosts Bill Bennett and Hugh Hewitt.  I guess I will have get them via streaming over the internet.
 

A couple months ago, I remember playing Google Earth and thought it was ok but more or less just forgot about it.  Last week, I decided to give it another look and found it amazing.  I think the reason why I gave it a second look because I wanted to compare it the new Microsoft local.live.com.

Its "fly to location" feature is quite awesome and enchants my 3 year old son who is totally into maps.  The community feature is pretty neat, as well.  People can "pushpin" points of interest and share.  These can be turned on and show right up in the map.  

I was looking at some burning oil fields in Iraq and it made me think about the "time" issue with satellite images.  It would be interesting to be able to compare a region overtime.  This could be interesting for a number of reasons:

• aforementioned Iraq
• Stadiums or buildings as they are being built
• before/after of New Orleans
• suburbs growth
  

Today, my Firefox was automatically updated to 1.5.01.  It is refreshing how simple and painless it is.

It did say that one of my extensions X-Ray was not compatible was was disabled.

I think Apple and Real need to learn some lessons from FireFox.

Well, my parents are currently visiting my sister in California.  They are trying to attend several show tapings.  Tonight, they will be on the Tonight Show.  Good chance they I would be embarassed if Jay Leno talks to them. 

While setting my DVR, I noticed that Snoop Dogg is on.  I really doubt if my parents know who they are.

The award for Windows XP on an Intel Mac Content is now at $9569.  Supposedly,  this guy got it working.  However, he did use Vista stuff to help boot.  I would say that is legit but I am not the judge.