Over the Salton Sea
Near the beginning of my career (after all the “real engineering” stuff like mining and oil), I worked for a small company developing software for analyzing satellite data, and between that and being a pilot, I totally fell in love with satellite, space and aerial photos of any sort. I remember a set of classic [...]
Hosting on GoDaddy
I finally got all of my domain transfers and hosting sorted out — my corporate domain is now with GoDaddy both as the registrar and the web host (although the archive of my business blog is still down), my Yahoo hosting account is cancelled, and I never have to talk to Melbourne IT again. I had [...]
Sporadic email problems
If you’re trying to email me now, you’ve noticed that my kemsleydesign.com domain is totally screwed up, likely due to Yahoo. Hopefully things will be sorted out by tomorrow; in the interim, you can email me at skemsley at gmail.
Sex. Death. Siberia.
I had a last-minute invitation to see Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto this week. From their description: The frustrated and lonely wife of a wealthy man falls into a passionate relationship with one of his workers. Fuelled by lust and a need to escape her bleak existence, Katerina risks all [...]
Yahoo has hijacked my domain!!
Three days later, the saga continues. Yahoo seems unable to figure out how to release my corporate domain and allow it to transfer to my new registrar, GoDaddy: it is still languishing in a “Pending Current Registrar Approval” state. Today, I spent a long time on the phone with Yahoo technical support trying to get [...]
Getting shot by Rannie
Rannie (a.k.a. photojunkie), a talented local photographer who I met through the TorCamp community, came over on Friday to shoot me. Photos, that is. I need a real headshot for my blogs and various speaking engagements coming up, rather than the current shot that was taken while on vacation in Murano. I scrubbed the obvious [...]
Outage earlier this week
Okay, that sucked — you may have noticed that this blog has been down since late Sunday night, or showed my corporate website instead of the blog. I’m constantly amazed at the ways that domain registrars and hosting providers can screw things up; there’s always some new frustration. I’m documenting the whole story here for posterity [...]
Jerry has (had) a friend
After last week’s mousecapades, we figured that the entry hole was blocked from our side and we were free of mice, although there were still some odd scramblings inside walls at times. For good measure, we picked up a couple of traps, and set out two of the glue type and one of the old-fashioned [...]
Love 2.0
In response to my earlier post about Skype stalkers, and I’ve had a request from Skype’s PR company to help find someone to interview for Valentine’s Day tomorrow. The gist of the story is how Skype can help long-distance lovers keep in touch, especially on Valentine’s Day. Are you currently in a long-distance relationship? Do [...]
Rebuffing the Skype stalkers
As part of the whole transparent lifestyle, I publish my real name, my age and my gender on my Skype profile. Unfortunately, some morons take the “female” indicator as an invitation to start a chat with me that they think is going to lead to some sort of hot IM conversation. I allow chat messages [...]
