Tom Sommer’s Weblog

Ever since I got the job at wannafind I have been careful to give advice on webhosts. In the past I use to complain about cliche.dk and try and help people find a good webhost based on my past experiences.
Now I’m sort of afraid any recommendations I give, will resort in people getting the wrong impression/idea of my intentions. Many will think that the only reason I now recommend wannafind is because I work there – and therefore that my statements are based on an intention to make profit off my recommendations – This is in no way true.

The truth is that I now recommend wannafind because I know how wannafind work. They offer good service and great stability to their customers, this is something that I now know and can promise. Mainly because I hear how my co-workers talk on the phone with customers and I see how procedures are carried out when a server stops running.

There might be lots of other great hosts out there, but I cannot recommend them, I have neither used them or seen how they operate.
So while my recommendations are more subtle now, trust me when I say I have only your interests at heart, not my own.

I’ve been searching the web for PHP merchaindise. Without much luck.

Then I go to zend.com and find that have a contest on which t-shirt should be the next “Zend T-Shirt”… I find two which I really like, called Zombie (front) (back) and PHP Coder (front) (back).
I vote for PHP coder but then see that 57% has voted for some idiotic T-Shirt of a fucking smilieface… SUCK! Everyone go vote for PHP Coder :) PLEASE!

I really wanted to get me a Zend T-Shirt :(
Not even in their store is there ANY PHP merchaindise, shame…

Some people just really don’t understand anything when selecting webhosts.
I can understand if you make a mistake once, I did when I chose cliche.dk.
But now cliche.dk and their way of treating customers is widely known, so why would anyone even consider all these new hosts? They’re popping up all over the place, look at Cube ApS and BlueWebHouse ApS? Half of the hosts which used this strategy a year ago is already dead or dying…

I really don’t understand why people still fall for “Get a huge hosting solution for ~$1 (10dkr)”. People have to be able to see through that? or?

All these quick and fast ApS hosts promise everything but in the end deliver nothing. Remember you are signing a contract for 6/12 months of payment and hosting, and if you find out it SUCKS after 1 week then you’re pretty much fucked.

So think about your choice of host, don’t choose all these newly founded webhosts, they might be able to provide good service and stability in the beginning but they can’t get afford to upgrade servers or staff when their customers only pay $1 a month. It’s a failed strategy, don’t fall for it… THINK PEOPLE!

I know I work for wannafind and many might think “hah, he’s only saying that because then wannafind will get more customers”, but no… I’m saying this due to my experience with webhosts and user’s questions in newsgroups.

There are many cliche’s out there, don’t fall for them!

I really suck at spelling. No doubt about that, I find myself running each “long” textbody I write through a spellchecker.
I normally open 40tude Dialog and just paste the text in to the compose window, easy way to check for errors.
The spellchecker in Mozilla Thunderbird is rather sucky… They really need to fix that, but my guess is that nothing will happen, since Mozilla generally seem to have a hard time adding new and useful features to it’s applications.

But there has to be an application dedicated for fast and good spellchecking. So why isn’t there? I’m not going to install MS word to get myself a decent spellchecker, no thank you

PS. this text was spellchecked :)

While I for a long time have relied on Trillian to satisfy my IM needs. I tried MSN 6 for the first time today, and I really like it.

I came to thinking of how many I know who use ICQ and not MSN, and concluded that was only a few…

So I’ve decided to try and switch to MSN6 alone, no more ICQ or YIM…

We’ll see how it goes, I’m not sure I can live with MSN alone :/

With the release of the new Thunderbird Nightly, supporting Extensions. I decided to take up one of the ideas for extensions.

I want to create an extension that allows users to easily customize and add colors to each level of quoting. I use this myself but not as an extension, so now I just gotta find out how extensions work… Which is not as easy as I expected

The day I’ve been waiting for, for tree long years, has finally come.
Today at 10:30 AM CET – I graduated from HTX Viby.

It’s been a pleasure and honor being a part of the class, 3.W 2003.

Now it’s time to move on with my life and get school as far away from me as possible. I’m now looking forward to working at wannafind for a long time doing things I really love to do.

At this time I have no plans on getting back to school, I’m simply sick of it.