BookBlogAdina Levin's weblog. For conversation about books I've been reading, social software, and other stuff too.Mountain Charlie Challenge- June 23, 2008 I went to Scotts Valley today to pick up my bike, and headed over to a local bike shop for some ride recommendations, since it's rumored to be fine biking territory. I was thinking about maybe heading toward the coast and riding 25 miles or so. For the month or so before the Danskin triathlon I'd been focusing on shorter, somewhat flatter rides followed by runs, so I hadn't been doing lots of hills. I asked the friendly bike store guy what he recommended. He got out a map, and drew a magic...http://alevin.com/weblog/archives/002038.html Earthshatteringly bad service from Earthlink- June 23, 2008 It took over 5 hours to recover from an expired domain name. The experience with Earthlink was one of the worst customer experiences I've had in my life, and I can't remember the other ones. The domain had been my primary web and email address for 10 years. It took me a few days to realize that the problem was the domain, not just an email delivery problem. Once I realized the problem was with the domain, I looked up the domain on whois and saw that it was registered at register.com. ...http://alevin.com/weblog/archives/002037.html |