 2005-08-17 13:37:50 |
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Bobbo's sudden disappearance in the simian universe closely mirrors my own recent plunge into the endless abyss of online gaming when I picked up World of Warcraft last Friday and proceeded to fall into a rabbit's hole of time suckage.
There I am at 3 a.m. trying to level my Dwarf Hunter "Oakface" up to level 5 on the Dark Iron server.
It's as goddamned dorky as it sounds. I blame Brian over at VGN Radio and of course Penny Arcade for stoking this particular geek fire. When am I gonna get my life back?
My own site Terribly-Happy (no link and you'll see why) is currently down because of a mistake I made with Network Solutions. (Arguably using Network Solutions in the first place was my biggest mistake.)
This company had the balls to call me and ask why I was transferring my domain to another registrar, then offer to match the $8.95 price, down from their robbery-like $34-a-year. To which I asked the nice lady on the phone why I wasn't offered that price in the first place. That would have kept me around.
So then she tells me that they can get me back up and running immediately if I stay with NetSol. Or, she says, I can wait a week until they approve my transfer and then another day or two until my new registrar gets me going.
Now, I ask you this: If they can look up my phone number and call me and try to sweet talk me into staying into the fold so quickly, can't they also just flip a switch and approve the transfer just as quickly? Can the buttons for these disparate functions be that far apart?
Nope. They'd rather my site twist in the wind for a week. Which is exactly why I'm letting the transfer go through. I can put up with a week of no site if it means getting out from under their assy weight.
Terribly Happy should be back by this weekend or early next week. Somewhere down the line this domain will move out of there, too.
There I am at 3 a.m. trying to level my Dwarf Hunter "Oakface" up to level 5 on the Dark Iron server.
It's as goddamned dorky as it sounds. I blame Brian over at VGN Radio and of course Penny Arcade for stoking this particular geek fire. When am I gonna get my life back?
My own site Terribly-Happy (no link and you'll see why) is currently down because of a mistake I made with Network Solutions. (Arguably using Network Solutions in the first place was my biggest mistake.)
This company had the balls to call me and ask why I was transferring my domain to another registrar, then offer to match the $8.95 price, down from their robbery-like $34-a-year. To which I asked the nice lady on the phone why I wasn't offered that price in the first place. That would have kept me around.
So then she tells me that they can get me back up and running immediately if I stay with NetSol. Or, she says, I can wait a week until they approve my transfer and then another day or two until my new registrar gets me going.
Now, I ask you this: If they can look up my phone number and call me and try to sweet talk me into staying into the fold so quickly, can't they also just flip a switch and approve the transfer just as quickly? Can the buttons for these disparate functions be that far apart?
Nope. They'd rather my site twist in the wind for a week. Which is exactly why I'm letting the transfer go through. I can put up with a week of no site if it means getting out from under their assy weight.
Terribly Happy should be back by this weekend or early next week. Somewhere down the line this domain will move out of there, too.
