Kessa bought me a BBQ for Valentine’s Day, and it’s been sitting in the box since.

Now I cook with it every chance I get. I think I found a new hobby, I love to BBQ!

I use Akismet on my Wordpress site to catch spam. At first I was very impressed with it. When I first installed it (a few weeks after it was announced), it worked very well; it would catch all spam and let all ham through. I’ve made sure to have the latest version of the Akismet plugin for Wordpress installed. Since 99% of the spam determining is done on the akismet server side, there haven’t been any client side updates in some time. My Akismet setup has caught 25,521 spam comments so far.

But recently, it has been misbehaving on my site and the sites of some of my friends that use it. I get 5-10 spam comments a week that Akismet thinks is ham, and every once in awhile I’ll get a ham comment that Akismet thinks is spam. Then it will place SOME items in moderation which are VERY obviously spam (100+ links).

It’s annoying, and I wish Akismet would get it together. For now, I’ll be patient and keep flagging comments accordingly. After all, there’s still nothing better…

Edit: I found an announcement for Defensio, which could be an Akismet replacer. I requested information and perhaps inclusion in the beta. This sounds promising.

So my buddy Tom (flash #2) is reporting that his Xbox 360 is giving him the red ring of death, meaning it has overheated and died, as so many others have.

I guess that means I’ll get to flash 360 #9 with the new iXtreme firmware (assuming it’s a Sammy).

I’ve been playing around with a friend’s PSP, which has a cracked screen. I flashed it, via the #psp on efnet guides.
2.50 => 2.71 => 1.50 => 3.40 OE-A, as they recommend. It went VERY smooth, all done within an hour.

The PSP has a broken UMD drive, so we’ll see if it’s an issue in the long run.

I’ve used Godaddy to register my domains for some time. The only reason I used it was because it was cheap, I didn’t really enjoy their interface or the company as a whole. So, when I found someone cheaper (or comparatively priced), I jumped on it.

So let this be a guide on how to transfer domains FROM Godaddy. I used Mydomain.com as an example.

First step, go to your Godaddy control panel and ensure that
a) Your administrative e-mail is correct.
b) Your domain you will be transferring is unlocked.

Next, go to MyDomain.com and login (signup as necessary). Once logged in, you will see on the bottom of the main page “Transfer Your Domains To Us”. Click that then put in the domain name in the following page. Just follow the steps until you can place the order. Two things that really appealed to me were the fact that
a) Coupons exist for a $5 transfer, which INCLUDES a year renewal. If for no other reason, this makes it much cheaper than godaddy can do.
b) You can use paypal for payments. You can do this with Godaddy but it’s just not as seamless.

Next with the Godaddy control panel, select “Authorization Code: Send by Email”. You will get an e-mail containing a code which you will need later.

Next you will receive an e-mail from Mydomain entitled “Confirm Domain Transfer”. There will be a link in there to confirm the transfer, click that. The page you go to requires you to put in the authorization code obtained from Godaddy. Once you enter that code, the transfer process has begun.

Next (a few hours later), you will receive an e-mail from Godady along these lines:

Dear %NAME%,

GoDaddy.com(R) received notification on %DATE% that you have requested a transfer
to another domain name registrar. If you want to proceed with this transfer, you do
not need to respond to this message. If you wish to cancel the transfer, you must do
so before %DATE%+4.

Followed by a bunch of “incentives” to try and keep you. I’ve tried to hasten the 4 day period, but they won’t have it.

After the 4 days have passed, the domain will be copied. Fortunately, they keep your NS records in tact, so the transition can be seamless insofar as there should be no transition-downtime.

Overall, yes it’s a lot of steps, but it’s worth it. Domains are expensive, and they really shouldn’t have to be.