Then I got an email saying “The following domain name cannot be registered – reason: already registered”.

Well, that would have been nice to tell me WHEN I WAS DOING THE FREAKING SEARCH TO BEGIN WITH. 

I know I’m not the only one this has been happening to. How can they not be prepared for this kind of surge? As the self-proclaimed “World’s #1 domain name registrar”, you think they would handle this better.

To top it all off, they send me an email asking to fill out a customer survey after speaking with their support on the phone. I filled out the survey which included some negative feedback. After I hit the “submit” button, I get a pop-up in the browser stating: “You are about to submit negative feedback. Are you sure?”

Wow. Seriously? You’re f$%&ing right I’m sure.

When you consider all of the things we worry about these days, it can really be quite depressing. Take the following for example:

• global warming
• the economy and possible recession
• the housing market and sub-prime mess
• the war in iraq – still going
• the deficit – still growing
• skyrocketing gas prices and depleting oil reserves
• crazy floods in the midwest
• crazy wildfires in California
• rising food costs
• disappearing or dying bee population – almost 1/3rd of them
• world population is near 7 billion, projected to add another billion in just 12 years
• reality tv shows like tila taquila

Those are just things off the top of my head. So how are we going to fix these things (well, the ones that can be fixed), and continue to scale for the future?

I dunno. I was hoping someone knew. If you have an idea, leave a comment.

And this is the case with most of the department stores I’ve been to. I worked at Mervyn’s for a few years during college and always wondered, even back then, why on earth their technology was so dated.

I recently received a very official and important looking piece of mail. I get a fair amount of junk mail and quite a few pieces that try to get past the average person’s manual “junk mail” filter by putting things on the envelope like “official”, “important”, or even “time sensitive”. I’m usually pretty good at filtering these out, but sometimes they do such a good job of making mail look important enough that I shouldn’t take the chance of throwing it away and end up opening it. Here’s a recent example:

Whoah, what’s this? “Official Property Documents Enclosed”, from the “Administrative Offices of APF/OV”, whatever that is. Hm, I guess I should open it just in case.

Ugh. Gimme a break. It’s some company trying to get me to refinance my mortgage. I really hate this crap. I wish there was some way to make this illegal.