Alex Reid

I am in pain. Everyday.

It takes me 10 minutes slide out of bed and prepare for the pain standing up and it takes me 25 minutes to get clothes on. This morning was the worst though. My chest muscles were stressed and it hurt like to hell. I had to stay up because just lying in bed even hurt. Getting up hurt. Everything hurts.

The phone rang and I couldn’t even pick it up. And besides, who wants to be greeted by “ARRRUUGHG!” as I pick up the phone. It’s not even so much my ribs as it is the muscles around my ribs. This is why it hurts so much to move and why stress is dangerous.

On Friday night, I had this horrible toothache, so Jenny got me some Anbesol and some more Advil since I’m out of painkillers now. This completely sucks. It may be another two weeks before I get better.

Watching TV and playing video games.
Anything that involves not moving.

Part one and part two.

You’re putting words in my mouth, just the way you put artificial facts in your head
- David Letterman to Bill O’Reilly

One of the things I like about Winnipeg:

This is the company that is bound to discredit domain name registration business for awhile.

RegisterFly was an Enom reseller, and recently became ICANN accredited. While the two partners fight, the company has gone to the dogs; domain names set to renew are being left to expire and no one is replying to any support inquiries.

Their customers – there are 900,000 of them with 2 million domain names – are finding out the hard way that they can’t do anything, since having an authorization code (which is a new policy) can only be given by the domain name registrant.

And while people’s domain names expire, cyber-squatters are quickly snatching them up – knowing there is a good chance that the names are wanted.

Calls and emails to ICANN regarding the inability to contact the company are being forwarded back to the company – annoying people that much more. It’s up in the air what will happen, with some suggesting the FBI get involved. In the meantime, some people are turning to the net to plea to the owners.

It’s gotten so bad that even Enom (whom in my opinion is not very good) is stepping away, by posting notices all around its website and released a slew of press releases that RegisterFly is no longer a reseller for them.

See: RegisterFly on the Fly, ICANN on the run