Update from Twitter
At international beerfest in edmonton oh man such a bad idea so fuckin drunk
Update from Twitter
I love the IGA at Amherstview. Scampi fries and quavers mmmmmmmmm
Internet Issues
Well….that sucked.
Long story short – went to bed Friday at 4am. Had a big work day planned, so slept for 4 hours. Got up, showered, went downstairs and it was doomsday – my internet was dead. I called Cogeco, who said that it was because my modem was dead, and if I wanted one before Monday I had to go get a new one myself. So I went and did that – and the AC Adaptor they gave me didn’t even fucking work. I have spares however and I tried one – still no internet.
So I was without internet till Monday afternoon. The reason? Apparently someone ripped the cable that goes from the telephone pole to my house. The guy says that it looks like someone must’ve ripped it down, although it’s possible a truck did it. Either way yeah – that fucking sucks.
So now I am super behind. It’s 5;30pm EST Tuesday as I write this. I leave for Edmonton in 12 hours – and I planned on having so much shit done before then, and now I am fucking swamped. Blah. I wanted to have lots done so I could easily relax on this trip, especially with the Fallout 3 DLC awaiting me upon my return.
Oh well nothing I can do now. I am pulling an all-nighter so I should be able to handle lots of stuf, and I will have my internet at Marks so no big deal I guess. Still a bit of a bummer though.
Being without internet was nice though. Although it’d never happen, I’d love to be able to every 4 weeks give myself a week off from the internet(bar important work stuff). Sadly I’m a workaholic – but it’s one of those little pipe dreams I’ll hold onto – that 1 in every 4 weeks I’ll not use the internet for anything except important e-mails. The more I type that, the more I think it actually IS possible, and is something I would really like to do, but meh I know I won’t.
Anyway…….off to work, and then for my tradition – sometime in the 24 hours before a flight, I watch Home Alone again. I’ve seen that movie at least 500-600 times(no joke) and it’s so awesome every time. I like to watch it before I fly anywhere, so that if my plane happens to crash and I get burnt alive, my last memories will be of Macaulay Culking saying “Buzz, your girlfriend….WOOF!”
Update from Twitter
My internet is down until at least monday nite so anyone msgs me won’t reply till then ty.
The death of Geocities
You can read the full article here – but to summarize, Geocities, the free web hosting service from 19-fucking-95, is pretty much dead and buried.
This is one of the saddest events for internet related matters. Seriously. If you were on the web from 1995-2000, there’s a strong chance you had a webpage at Geocities.
The very first website I ever created was at Geocities. I can’t remember the exact URL, but I never even knew HTML and used Geocities Website Builder software to create it. If it wasn’t for that, I probably would have never got into the business I am today.
I still remember my first homepage. BluenoseGjMcGs Website was the name of it. It was more just a personal page where I put on some pictures, funny soccer quotes, jokes etc. I also ran a brief TNM e-fed and posted stuff on there too.
Then when I created my first wrestling website, the Pro Wrestling World, I had it on Geocities. Amazingly, I still remember the URL – it was /https://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/9333
Unfortunately the site is long gone, and the earliest web archive is just a forwarder to our new site.
I remember having about 300 different Geocities accounts, as we had lots of files to host but Geocities had a size limit for your account(no bandwidth limits at that time). Just thinking about all this brings back memories. The biggest thing at that time I remember was EVERYONE had Geocities accounts, and then they all left to go to uh…Simplenet.com I think it was. Like people had URLs like WrestlingGod.Simplenet.com and so on. Then one day due to bandwidth, simplenet just booted every fucking wrestling site off them, which was epic lolz.
Anyway, very sad to see Geocities gone, as it kicked the ass of all it’s competitors, like Angelfire and Fortunecity. Unfortunately they never could figure out how to really profit from the site, especially in this web 2.0 world. It seems silly – but to me, it’s like an NFL Player seeing the kids team he played for at 4 years old shutting down – they got me the start in this business, and who knows if I’d still be in the position today without it.
To Geocities: Thanks. I owe my livelihood to you, as do many others I am sure.