Month: June 2006
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Which webhost would you use?
I’m not satisfied with my current webhost, TextDrive.com, and I’m looking for suggestions/alternatives. TextDrive has provided good support, mostly, and the $25/month for shared hosting is reasonable, though clearly not the cheapest out there. I have a handful of domains (<10), and pencoyd.com, running clock is the only active one. The 2GB storage and 10GB/month…
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Movie: X2: X-Men United
I watched X2: X-Men United mid-week on DVD. The impetus was the release of the third X-Men movie. Although box office numbers have been great for the one in theaters now, I don’t want to see it without having seen both of the previous films. Pretty solid film. Magneto (Ian McKellen) is quite a villain,…
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Book: Shadow of the Giant
During Memorial Day weekend, I finished Orson Scott Card’s final novel in the Ender series, Shadow of the Giant. Ender himself is almost nowhere in this novel, as Bean is once more the lead character. The spotlight is shared with Peter (the Hegemon) as post-alien war Earth continues to shake out. As an exercise in…