The Southeastern network outage effecting Embarq’s Carolina customers (and beyond?) has apparently been resolved. I could ping regional DNS servers but all outside IP traffic was dead. We were down here in South Carolina for about 2 hours.

I found this cool picture of the Twitter main offices. Now that’s a neat workspace.

I’ve decided to try out the new grid hosting service at Godaddy. There are several limitations including no SSL, but the technology sounds promising and you can’t beat the introductory price. I will be providing a detailed review here after evaluating the service. Let’s hope it’s an improvement over the deluxe plan.

After months of lingering along on the crippled ChannelMe platform, the founder of Hollywood.TV has decided to join the “big league” and migrate to dot com. This site once heralded by dot TV enthusiasts is now officially hosted on a dot com. This is just the latest blow in a series of defections for the trendy media-centric TLD. Current TV made a similar move shortly after winning an Emmy in 2007. There’s growing speculation that a contractual issue exists between Verisign and Tuvalu that is causing concerns for these heavy hitters.

Over the next several weeks, I will be making several changes to the website and begin focusing on domain sales. I’ll continue to perform Internet/network consulting in Greenwood, SC.

I’ve always been a been fan of the Avett Brothers. Today I was checking out some of their new material on Playlist.com and stumbled on this great tune. Click play to Enjoy!

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Video tutorial on how to get an expert appraisal for your domain at NamePros.com..

This is my first video using CamStudio screen capture program. In this video I give a brief overview of registering and grace deleting domains at Dynadot.com.

After making my video for President Elect Obama, I found this cool video. This is Gene Chandler, the “real” Duke or Earl. He’s 68 years old and still going strong. Awesome!

Today I was researching the Velvet Underground when I came across this video of Andy Warhol eating a hamburger. Warning: This video contains subject matter that may not be suitable for vegetarians.