Joey Gibson's BlogThoughts, musings, ramblings and rants on Java, Ruby, Python, obscure languages, politics and other exciting topicsNetflix Is Keeping Profiles- June 30, 2008 A couple of week ago, Netflix announced that they were dropping the feature called "profiles." With profiles, you could setup separate sub-accounts for other family members, and assign some number of DVD's to each profile. We're on the four-at-a-time plan, and I setup a profile for my son Thomas, with one DVD assigned to it. This means that he has his own queue with stuff he wants to watch, and his stuff isn't mixed in with mine. It worked beautifully. And then about two weeks ago, Netflix...http://joeygibson.com/blog/general/netflix_is_keeping_profiles.html Setup With SliceHost- June 28, 2008 Some of you know that I left Jobkabob at the beginning of June, to work for Spectrum K12 School Solutions. It's going well, thanks. For the past three years or so, my blog has been hosted on a Jobkabob server, but since I was leaving, I had to find another home for it. I was going to just buy a virtual server with GoDaddy, but a guy at work mentioned SliceHost, so I decided to check them out. I liked what I saw, and I am now running on a "slice." Setup was painless and moving my blog was cake,.http://joeygibson.com/blog/general/setup_with_slicehost.html McCain Wants My Vote- June 17, 2008 I received this photo in the mail today along with a puff letter allegedly from the man himself. It was basically, "I'm running for Prez because blah blah blah" and the same old promises he's been making. Though no mention of drilling for oil in our own country or of stemming the tide of the Mexican invasion. Oh yeah, and a plea for money. He wants as much as he can get, but he's not getting a dime from me. I gave money to the RNC once, and all it seemed to be used for was to ask me for...http://joeygibson.com/blog/politics/mccain_wants_my_vote.html |