This week in Tweets

February 22, 2009 TechyDad This Week in Tweets

Need to tell my parents that my in-laws are coming with us on our Disney World trip. How to break the news, though? #
They wouldn’t have been able to go, but I don’t want to make it seem like we were slighting them in favor of my wife’s parents. #
Got an idea for a Twitter app, but it’d quickly push me above my API limit. I should probably register another username for the app to use. #
Good morning everyone. At work today so I can use my vacation day for Fridge Delivery Day (also known as Thursday). #
Do you develop in ASP and PHP? If so, do you use separate hosting accounts? #
Typical. I feel highly productive and want to plow through my work and my laptop slows down to a crawl. #
Just e-mailed my web host asking why they changed their plans so drastically. #
From 140GB, ASP/MS SQL & PHP/mySQL for $130/yr to ASP/MS SQL OR PHP/mySQL & 4GB of space for $193/yr. Or ASP/MS SQL/PHP/mySQL & 8GB for $509 #
Was checking out Lunar Pages. They had ASP, PHP, MS SQL, mySQL, & just about enough space. Only allowed 2 websites per plan though. #
I asked how much to purchase additional websites (need at least 6) & was told I can’t. I’d need to sign up for multiple plans. WEBHOST FAIL! #
Just got a reply from Sectorlink about their hosting plan changes. #
They “introduced a new security model & new feature set … which unfortunately resulted in an overall increase of price.” #
They also added that any existing account “will continue to be hosted at it’s current cost and features until you request otherwise.” #
It does in the short term. It means we can stay on the plan we have now without any problems. #
Oops, that first part was meant to be @TheAngelForever. 😉 #
Just found a host to investigate. Heard good things about Surpass. They don’t do Windows, but mentioned a “sister company” HostDime. #
HostDime has a plan with 10GB of space, 5 hosted domains, PHP, ASP, mySQL, & MS SQL for $14.95/mo or $165/yr. #
If I can move my sites to using mySQL instead of MS SQL, and if ChiliSoft ASP works well, then HostGator might be a viable option. #
HostGator is $14.95/mo for unlimited space, unlimited domains, ChiliSoft ASP, PHP, & mySQL. #
RT and Enter to win a Boon Trio Animal Bag. Details here: http://twurl.nl/uj5t2a <= Only two days left. #
HostGator is also working on Windows plans. Looking forward to those. #
Going to try to switch SectorLink to paying monthly while keeping current plan. Otherwise I’ll soon be locked into Sectorlink for another yr #
Productive streak killed by McAfee Anti-Virus suddenly(and for no reason) demanding 90%+ of my CPU time. #
What’s sadder: A 13yr old might be the youngest father in Britain or 2 boys question his paternity saying they too slept w/ the 15yr old? #
Just thought of an interesting (and disturbing)wrinkle with the new #FacebookTOS blog post coming soon. #
Interesting. New reply from Sectorlink says that they’re still offering PHP/mySQL on their Windows plans. Website just hasn’t been updated. #
So their current “Windows Level 2” plan would fit my needs, but would cost about $253.20/yr (adding additional 2GB web space to get to 6GB). #
That’s still double my current hosting costs. #
Very productive “working vacation day” today. Got 18 items checked off my To Do list out of 32 items I started with. #
I love working on vacation days. No one calls and bothers me. I get so much more work done. #
Heading home now. Much work accomplished on this In-The-Office-Vacation-Day. #
Skipping #WiiFit tonight, but I have a good reason. My little one projectile puked all over our bed. He’s still awake but acting normal. #
Just watched #Heroes. My son decided to puke during the opening minutes. Thank goodness for DVRs. Don’t think it was a critique on Heroes. #
RT @mommasreview: Only one more day to win two Slankets! Come enter our giveaway http://tinyurl.com/am2o9h #
Got a voice message while I was in a meeting. It’s a wrong number. Should I call back to let them know or just ignore it? #
RT and Enter to win a Boon Trio Animal Bag. Details here: http://twurl.nl/uj5t2a <== Would be cute to take pictures of NHL/JSL on this. #
Called the guy back. I’d hate to wait around for a callback if I left a voice mail at the wrong number. He thanked me for calling back. #
Sectorlink has updated their plans. Were showing 1.5GB & 4GB for the Windows plans. Now 15GB & 40GB. Not as good as the 140GB I have now tho #
Just confirmed. I can switch from annual to monthly billing on Sectorlink while retaining my old plan. #
This means I can leisurely look at other hosts instead of having an April deadline. #
Poster on DisBoards said they were given a soup recipe by DW staff. The foodie in me loves this. Enjoy food at Disney then make it at home! #
Politifact, which during the election fact checked candidates, is tracking how well Obama keeps his campaign promises. http://is.gd/g1hq #
Current track record: 9 Kept, 3 Compromise, 2 Broken, 21 In The Works, 475 No Action (not surprising, he’s been in office less than 1 month) #
How do I tell my parents that my wife’s parents are coming w/ us on our Disney Vacation w/o hurting their feelings? #
The longer I wait to do this, the worse it gets but I can’t think of a way to casually slip it in without it sounding like an insult. #
The complication w/ my parents is that they’re looking after my 94yr old grandmother so they can’t leave her for long. #
Thanks @classymommy & @Jentifa. I’ll offer another trip w/ them (even though I know they won’t accept). #
I guess I just need to get it over with. If I wait too long, I’ll need to explain why my in-laws are in the vacation photos. 😉 #
Trying to pack up and head home but the “1 last test” I did of a page turned into infinite recursion. Trying to shut it down before I leave. #
80 days until we go to Disney World now. #
Computer moving slowly today. My brain’s moving slowly also. Is it naptime? #
RT @WorthyWire: North Dakota House Gives Fertilized Eggs Human Status http://tinyurl.com/awob2t <= Fertility treatment ramifications? #
When couples are done w/ IVF, fertilized eggs might be left over. Those are usually destroyed. Under the ND bill, that would be murder. #
Why can’t I just get a list of a user’s friends using the Twitter API without going through page after page? #
Got a great Twitter-based app in mind, but I fear I’ll hit the API if I need to go through page after page of friends. #
At the very least, it could give me a “Number Of Friends” figure so I can figure out the maximum page I’ll need to retrieve. #
Only going to pull the 1st 10 pages of a user’s Friends. There are 100 friends per page. That means a 1,000 friend limit which seems fair. #
Skipped my #WiiFit workouts this entire week so far thanks to our marathon cleaning sessions. #
Going to head to bed now. So tired from all of our cleaning. With luck, my wife & the boys will be able to visit me at work tomorrow. 🙂 #
The Crisis of Credit Visualized: http://www.vimeo.com/3261363 Very informative (and scary) look at the mess we’re in. #
Nine out of 10 parents swear in front of children: http://is.gd/kfmR #
Looks like my wife and kids won’t be visiting after all. Was looking forward to it too. 🙁 #
Hmm… The Twitter app I’m working on keeps crashing FireFox. That’s not good at all. That’ll need to be fixed before I roll it out. #
A bug in my code made a ton of TwitterAPI calls & bumped me into my rate limit. Guess I need to wait an hr before continuing my development. #
Parents called to tell me that my grandmother fell today. She’s in the ER now and might need to go to a nursing home for rehab. 🙁 #
Realized that my Twitter app will *ALWAYS* hit the 100 reqs/hr limit. Just the nature of what it does. Need to apply for the increased limit #
Running into too much trouble with a jQuery Queue plugin. Moving everything into a server side script instead. #
Oops. Last tweet should have specified that I’m having trouble with a jQuery *AJAX* Queue plugin. #
My wife is passed out on the couch next to me. I should really be getting to sleep also. But first I need to prep my camera for tomorrow. #