I noticed an article on the New York Times today that Network Solutions (aka www.netsol.com) has a policy of registering domain names that people search for.  This was news to me, as I’ve always used them.  Much to my chagrin, it is true – the domain name I searched for the other day – which I’ll withhold due to a reason outlined below – is now reserved by Network Solutions.  What sneaky bastards.  They’re apparently doing this to prevent scamming, but how does make this different from the scammers?
Of course, …

This past week we got stumbled.  StumbleUpon.com is a website sharing social network, and someone liked my 5 reasons to move to Costa Rica.  There was a DRAMATIC effect on our traffic – we went from some 20-ish visits per day to over 8,000 in 2 days.  The majority of the visits were less than 1 minute, but a few people took the time to read and some did comment.  Our feed subscriptions also increased by more than double, but I was immediately skeptical as to how many new people …

I’ve been bored with our old design for quite some time and finally got the time over the last week to refresh it. It took a few tries before Trish ok’d a design – she’s suprisingly averse to change in some ways. I felt that our our changed outlook on life – defining our dream and actively working towards it – needed to be reflected in our blog design. My goal was to make the blog brighter and more open, with colors that reflected …

I should’ve done a speedtest while in Cahuita (where my guesstimate is 256 kb/s down, 64 kb/s up), but better late than never.  San Antonio de Belen, a suburb north of San Jose.  The download speed here (949 kb/s) is great – I get almost 1500 kb/s at best in the States.  The upload is solid, definitely doable.  Frankly I’m just glad that it’s fast enough to be usable.

Apparently, the server that our site is hosted on died 2 days ago.  Our host, AN Hosting, has been quick and diligent about moving everything to a brand-spanking new server.  The problem was hardware-related and should not resurface.