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After several days of flopping around, the forecast models are now beginning to home in on an eventual landfall for dangerous Hurricane Gustav somewhere west of New Orleans. But the entire northern Gulf Coast is still within the storm's reach. A scary way to observe the 3rd anniversary of Katrina. - Chris Baskind via Bookmarklet

oh no!! - Sarah Perez

Whee! Just upgraded to a Cat 2. - Chris Baskind

Chris go to bed! :) - Justin Korn

Not liking this. Hurricane bad. - Larry Kless via twhirl

Didn't realize this was one of the serious threads. Seriously hope you guys are all safe and sound... - Justin Korn

Robert Nelson posted a message on Twitter

“@tommyduncn I use DH myself & am happy, but @sarahintampa had issues with them & has to leave them.”

Thursday at 3:25 pm - Link

@tommyduncan here's the whole story. Reconsider! http://sarahintampa.posterous.... - Sarah Perez

Sarah Perez shared an item on Google Reader

Why can't they fix the Flash/Firefox bug?

Thursday at 3:11 pm - Link

Jeff P. Henderson, Cyvros/fyc, Kol Tregaskes, Anthony Citrano and Roger Chen liked this

Surprised more people aren't discussing this. Happens to me a lot. - Sarah Perez

Flash Player 9.x has serious issues on OSX, too. I tried installing 10.x beta but as the article says, many sites refuse to work with it. - Anthony Citrano

Me Too! Every couple of days I have to uninstall and re-install the Flash plug-in to get it to work again. Easy to do, but should I really have to keep doing this with production software?? - Jeff P. Henderson

Sarah Perez posted a message

“my dad killed my website - he forgot that he gave me his cc# to build him his site/pay for hosting over on dreamhost. He disputed the charges and thereby killed his site and all of mine since Dreamhost thinks that a TOS violation. Thanks dad.”

Thursday at 8:35 am - Link

Erhan Erdogan, Mike Fruchter, David Ward, Mitchell Tsai and 8 other people liked this

that sucks.. but ant the sites hosted under two different domains ? - Peter Dawson

omg, sarah. :(( - Hao Chen

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Oh geez that's harsh... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

wow - Michael W. May (Joffi) via twhirl

@Peter - all my domains were hosted at dreamhost, all were wordpress installs. I knew I didn't dispute any charnges, but after I finally got a response to a support ticket a day later I found out that someone did. After some investigation, it turned out to be my dad...who's now paying big time since I have to move 4 websites to a new host, wordpress installs and all. - Sarah Perez

ouch... - JA Castillo

Oh Dads. Dreamhost still stinks, though! :-P - Mark Trapp

as a dad of a college age online active kid, ouch is a good response :) - mike "glemak" dunn

yikes, that sux - Shey

wow, that really sucks Sarah. Good luck on the moves. - Rob Diana

Think of it this way, DreamHost is the suck. Now you can get a better host. It's just like moving, you get rid of all the junk and you come out cleaner, leaner and meaner after the experience. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

That's a comedy of errors; I'm sure it's tough on you. I hope you had some offsite backup. Hey, I need to go back up my blog now... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Sarah, that sucks! I was wondering what happened to your site as of lately. If you need any assistance moving the domains or with the wordpress installs, please feel free to drop me an email anytime - mikefruchter@gmail.com. - Mike Fruchter

Ohhh nooos, wow.....That's not cool! - Anthony Farrior

omg :( - LouCypher

poor you.... - H.C.

uh oh - Jeremiah Owyang

OOOO MMMMMY GOOOOOOODDD... that's is simply unbelievable...wow - Susan Beebe

DAAAAAAD NO!!! - jeneane is in the house

however, it is a good name for a new website: mydadkilledmywebsite.com, which is (what do you know!) available! https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop... - jeneane is in the house

ouch! hopefully this doesn't equate to "deleted my website and it can't be recovered" - Abbas Haider Ali

Not really Liking, more a sympathy Like. - Hutch Carpenter

That's what parents are for (to wreck our lives, lol) - Jeremy Campbell via twhirl

here's the full story (an email I sent to a friend who shared the ghacks story saying he never had any problems with dreamhost): http://sarahintampa.posterous.... - Sarah Perez

@mike totally emailing you - Sarah Perez

yikes! - Mattb4rd

the issue here shouldn't be the credit card dispute. I think the bigger issue is that DH has a one-strike, no questions asked, don't let the door hit you on the way out policy. Mistakes happen, and it seems odd that the DH TOS don't care. - Shane Perris

Your site is back http://www.sarahintampa.com/ ：) - LouCypher

Liking now, because sarahintampa.com is back online. - Mike Fruchter

Sarah Perez commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: louisgray.com: MacBlips and GadgetBlips Launch to Capture Leading Tech Stories

Thursday at 12:42 pm - Link

"This solves my dilemma about having too much Engadget to read! Nice. Well, that is...if it works. :)" - Sarah Perez

Sarah Perez posted a message

“I've been on vacation since Friday. Anyone want to fill me in on what I missed? I haven't read RSS in days!”

Wednesday at 2:26 pm - Link

Michael J Cohen, Hutch Carpenter and (jeff)isageek liked this

do you know about http://beta.friendfeed.com -? - Brian Sullivan

I'm still awesome... - Shey

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You missed most of the Democratic convention...oh wait, you didn't miss anything. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)

3 days? an uncountable amount of action has happened, all of which would have been life-changing for you. unfortunately now that you've missed it you can never recapture those moments, ever. maybe you'll think twice before getting offline for that long again!! - Jeremy Toeman

bacon, mango, beta, twitter still down - that's about it sarah ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

twitter bought google then google crashed. - (jeff)isageek

me three Sarah - anna

The Web crashed. We're going back to gopher baby! - Mitch Wagner

Jeff - well done sir. Well done. - Steve Isaacs

I made a tag cloud of your Google Reader shares: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008... - Hutch Carpenter

you guys are so funny! - Sarah Perez

haha - gamcat

Sarah Perez posted a message on Twitter

“so Twitter folks, where do I host now? (Or like, next week when Dreamhost checks their postal mail and processes my Money Order)”

Tuesday at 7:12 pm - Link

Brad Nickel liked this

Are you looking for a VPS where you have root access, or just a hosted blog? - Jason Carreira

Start Logic and Verve have both been good to me. - Yolanda

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I've been very happy with MediaTemple's Grid Service and their VPS service. http://www.mediatemple.net - Brad Nickel

@Jason I want somewhere with one-click Wordpress installs - Sarah Perez

Sarah, GoDaddy has 1-click Wordpress installs and they've been kind to me. Of course, I don't get much traffic so I don't know what kind of load they bear. Prices are on a par with Dreamhost I believe (but not 100% sure on that). - Shane Perris

I've used MediaTemple and now use MidPhase ('cause it's a lot cheaper). But if you're planning on Digg spikes, MediaTemple is the cheapest way to handle it. - Bob Caswell

MediaTemple looks nice - #3 "we answer the phone" http://www.mediatemple.net/why... - Sarah Perez

You do NOT want to host on GoDaddy and you do NOT want to EVER EVER EVER host at HostDepartment. - Cyndy

I agree—you don’t want Go Daddy. - Albert Willis

What can I say? GoDaddy has been good to me and I know plenty of others who feel the same. However, I also know plenty of people that swear Dreamhost is the best place to be. As usual, YMMV *shrug* - Shane Perris

Sarah Perez published a photo on Flickr

Dreamhost Sucks

Tuesday at 7:39 pm - Link

H.C., ~C4Chaos, Marshall Bose, Mark Trapp and 2 other people liked this

sorry that this is happening to you, Sarah. I am with Dreamhost and it's sad to watch. - Matt Hooper

One strike and you're out? What kind of insane anti-customer policy is that? - Shane Perris

hopefully Sarah you can get hold of a human on the phone tomorrow and straighten this out - Matt Hooper

WOW! This is how NOT to do hosting business. I have a few domains hosted there. I will be looking elsewhere for sure. - Marshall Bose

@Matt - I would ditch DreamHost right away. And there is no way to get a person on the phone!! I have tried! - Sarah Perez

Sorry Sarah - Simian DA (Amber)

Sarah Perez posted a message on Twitter

“OH.MY.GOD. Dreamhost thinks I disputed the charges on my acct. What??? No I didn't. They have closed my acct. This sucks”

Tuesday at 5:34 pm - Link

Sarah, you didn't by any chance have it set up to pay via PayPal, did you? I'm having the same problem with a different host. - Cyndy

Oh geez that bites. Keeping my fingers crossed that you have a backup (and thinking I need to make one myself). - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

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I have *some* backups.... - Sarah Perez

Sarah - Ugh! Feel free to share any temporary back-up sites.Sure everyone here would be more than happy to spread them around - Charlie Anzman

Ouch. That's bad. - Louis Gray

dreamhost should be renamed nightmarehost - Morgan via fftogo

I just have manual backups - Sarah Perez

That's terrible. Best of luck getting it restored: try to move off as soon as you do, though. - Mark Trapp

yeah, if anyone knows anyone at dreamhost, please hit them hard for me. thanks. - Sarah Perez

Call my hosting rep, Reema Patel (866) 406-4678, ext 1338 at http://HostmySite.com and get switched over el pronto! Your situation at dreamhost sounds like "nightmarehost" ...this is really awful treatment! - Susan Beebe

Dreamhost is perfect except for when they go completely crazy, charging everyone a year in advance by accident, changing SSH keys without telling anyone, stopping forwarding email to Gmail, or keeping passwords in cleartext and letting 3000 accounts (including mine) get hacked so all my index pages have invisible iframe spam. Gotta love 'em. Seriously. Gotta or they'll close your acct, apparently. - Kevin Fox

@Susan - they have my domains, too, so I can't even redirect them until I send in an Money Order so they will "temporarily" re-enable my account. - Sarah Perez

Kevin - really? Shia, I thought the iframe was due to Joomla - bastids! They drive me buggy! Yikes, time for a new host... - Cheryl Allin via twhirl

or throttling your account when you get massive spikes in traffic and don't have an upgrade or any solution at all except to say FU. They are teh suck. - Morgan via fftogo

Sarah Perez posted a message on Twitter

“I'm filing a BBB complaint on Dreamhost. This is beyond wrong.”

Tuesday at 6:52 pm - Link

Bob Caswell liked this

mailing in my *MONEY ORDER* from a Post Office tomorrow. But guess what? they only check their MAIL at Dreamhost 2x per week according to the email. So I guess I'll be back up and running in an eternity from now. - Sarah Perez

Sarah Perez commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Tweeple Twak (The Twitter App I’ve Been Dying To Show You)

August 22 at 9:25 pm - Link

"Thank you for your email. However, I will not be able to respond immediately as I am currently on vacation. If you are sending a pitch for ReadWriteWeb, I encourage you to send your email to tips@readwriteweb.com. The entire team reads those emails and it's the best way to contact us. I will return on Thursday the 28th. If you are a friend or family member and need to reach me before then, please call my cell. Thank you, Sarah Perez -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Where You Can Find Me: -------------------------------------------------------------- www.sarahintampa.com - My Personal Blog www.on10.net - Microsoft's Channel 10 www.readwriteweb.com - ReadWriteWeb www.grandeffect.com - Tech Blog Network - Advertise Today!" - Sarah Perez

Sarah Perez shared an item on Google Reader

Get Paid to Twitter Using the Adjix Link Shrinker

August 21 at 6:33 pm - Link

nooooooooo - Sarah Perez

Sarah Perez shared an item on Google Reader

Colin the Baby Whale

August 21 at 6:33 pm - Link

this was the saddest story :( - Sarah Perez

Shey posted a message on Twitter

“@ehrenc Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of folks at work use IE6”

August 21 at 2:00 pm - Link

Yes it is unfortunate that this lame beast won't fall over and die - Ian May

indeed - Shey

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- you need silver bullets to kill this beast... - JA Castillo

I'm considering pulling a covert op to go around all the comps in the office and upgrade them to IE7. Still mulling it over. - Shey

- oh yeah...I like your style! - JA Castillo

Fools, swap to Firefox immediately ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

IE6? They'll never take my K-Meleon away! :) - Morton Fox

Shey, where do you work? 2003? - Andy Roth

ugh!!! your IT guy needs a good slappin' - Sarah Perez

Rahsheen(isSoAwesome) posted an entry on rahsheen's channel on 12seconds.tv

12 challenge: Sing your favorite song when you were 13

August 21 at 9:49 am - Link

Sarah Perez, Michelle Martinez, sergiooo, edythe and 5 other people liked this

Is anyone looking for 12seconds invites? I have like...10. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

Should post them in the invites room. - Yolanda

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True... - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

Hmm... 1990? Probably Policy of Truth by Depeche Mode. I could sing that. Who's got a mic? - Louis Gray

1991, which means I won't dare even speak what my favorite song was, much less sing it =P - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

FriendFeed Karoake night anyone?? :-) - Lisa L. Seifert

And I also notably feel old. 1990?? 1991?? I was 13 in 1983! Awesome musical choices, though! Def Leppard? Michael Jackson? Duran Freaking Duran? The Police? Can't choose! Brain will explode... - Lisa L. Seifert

Louis Gray and I are the same age, so probably the same, although I did have some New Kids on the Block, MC Hammer, and Milli Vanilli at the time. REM's It's the End of the World As We Know it would top my list as well. - Jesse Stay

Wow I feel like a kid -1996. Blackstreet - No Diggity. Don't have a video option but I'm singing it. - Simian DA (Amber)

Hah! Blackstreet. Man, I wish I could bring that kinda music back...oh wait...I CAN... - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

Yeah...already there. And some old Fugees. - Simian DA (Amber)

Hmmm, it was probably "If it isn't love" by New Edition (but maybe it was What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) by Information Society and I just didn't know who Information Society was). More interesting, there was not a single hip hop track in the top 100 songs of 1988 - http://eightiesclub.tripod.com... - Jason Toney

wow... ha. probably True by Spandau Ballet or Like a Virgin or... Too Shy by Kaja Googoo... - edythe

Oh geez. It was '87. That's glam band era. Not fair! - Rodfather

1988, Never Gonna Give You Up, ohhyeeaaaahhhhh. Actually it was probably Don't Worry Be Happy, I loved that song. http://www.musicoutfitters.com... Edit: oops, there's already a link to 1988 top 100 sorry - sergiooo

I suggest we all do one on http://www.singsnap.com/ - Rodfather

W00t - nice job! - Sarah Perez

Mike Fruchter posted a link

Gridjit Blog - FriendFeed Likes, Comments, Rooms. Twitter Replies. And more.

August 21 at 4:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Brian, Kenichi Matsumoto, Here's... possible248!, Charlie Anzman and 7 other people liked this

"Today we rolled a biggish update to Gridjit.com that should make it more enjoyable to use. The big new features are: Integration of FriendFeed Likes, Comments and Rooms" - Mike Fruchter via Bookmarklet

I might need to check back in with gridjit - Sarah Perez

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Anyone got an invite? :( - Brian

@Brian use this code: 67aaad9 - Mike Fruchter

I'm signed up and I like it so far! - Daynah

Wow I'm already signed up to it and I didn't even know it. - Andrew Trinh

@Mike Thanks man - Brian

(jeff)isageek posted a link

my ugly mug made it on techcrunch again :)

August 21 at 10:15 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Brian, Justin Korn, Mike Fruchter, Erhan Erdogan and 4 other people liked this

this is like the 3rd time. - (jeff)isageek via Bookmarklet

I saw you there as well. I wasn't thinking Ugly Mug though. I was thinking, there's Jeff! - Louis Gray

well thanks louis :) - (jeff)isageek

me too! jeff spotting is fun! - Sarah Perez

Steve Rubel posted a link

Hey, you can get paid to share links on Friendfeed!

August 21 at 5:30 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Neill Adamson, Apostolos Papadopoulos, Lu Tao, K.D. and 6 other people liked this

This is interesting. What's your take? I am not using it since it's ridden with conflict for me. But I love the idea! We need innovation. - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet

My take is, "ick" and if there is no way to note shares that are being compensated, I would stop using FriendFeed almost completely if people I'm following are availing themselves to such services. - Robert Seidman

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Bad bad bad bad bad....and worse! - Andrew Fielding

I don't think this will be received very well. It's PayPerPost for microblogging. - Mike Doeff

nooooooooo - Sarah Perez

I see it both ways, as my post says. But ultimately, if the community hates this then it's toast. - Steve Rubel

Meh, if I wanted to see ads I'd be on blogs right now. Instead, I'm on FF reading what people think about blogs (and hopefully not what they're paid to say). - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Using friendfeed to promote themselves? er promote something? tsk. tsk. - Morgan Warstler

This one is toast at FriendFeed. http://beta.friendfeed.com/e/8... - AJ Batac

I'd never use it.. I'd hate for people to stop clicking the links I share because they think I'm just after the commission. - Freemor

since when is greed and stupidty called innovation? oh, yeah, in marketing meetings - gregory lent

very interesting idea - EXTREMELY interesting comments - Marco

"Like", as in "hate". - Chris Martin

Kill -9 - Jonathon

Why shill for other businesses for just a few cents or bucks? Not worth it, keep the Internets pure and clean! - Rudolf Olah

@Rudolf...Internets pure and clean? Too late judging by the easy access to porn. :) - Craig Eddy

no no no. - Dean Terry

@Craig I meant, pure and clean in terms of ads :p - Rudolf Olah

DO NOT WANT!! - Morgan

This will attract spammers >:( - LouCypher

This explains some of the ad-based tiny urls I've seen. - Hutch Carpenter

a divide is showing up between ad/pr/marketing world (manipulators) and explorers who love social media for the discovery of new ideas. greed and selfish don't mix well with discovery - gregory lent

Sarah Perez posted an entry on sarahintampa

Tweeple Twak (The Twitter App I’ve Been Dying To Show You)

August 21 at 8:10 am - Link

Michael J Cohen and Mike Fruchter liked this

Seems excessively narcissistic to me - Jason Carreira

@Jason welcome to social media ;) - Sarah Perez

Looks cool! - Svartling

lol ... vanityware, i call it ... biggest of big businesses - gregory lent

Sarah Perez shared an item on Google Reader

Microsoft Launches Photosynth: Your Pictures in 3D

August 21 at 6:14 am - Link

Kim, kamla bhatt, Tim Costantino, David Risley and Matt Craven liked this

yet another cool tool that i need to try...wonder how folks keep up with all these nifty tools that are constantly being thrown at us. i find that i often retreat to my old, tried and tested apps. Do you find it challenging being an early adopter? - kamla bhatt

I like the licencing part... - Kim

@kamla: having a test machine is nice :) - Sarah Perez

Corvida posted a message

“How many of you actually pay attention to the rooms on FriendFeed? Do you check the rooms everyday? Every other day?”

August 21 at 7:35 am - Link

Kol Tregaskes, Jeff P. Henderson, Evangeline, Barbara K. Baker and 10 other people liked this

I check rooms fairly often. Signing up for several rooms and not a whole lot of people keeps the noise down for me. - Simian DA (Amber)

My rooms show up in my feed, makes it easier to keep up. Probably only useful for posting rooms, rather than aggregation rooms. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

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Every other day... about half shown in feed, rooms are important - Majento (Early Adopter :)

Rooms are now under used and not appreciated. - Russellreno

I check daily. The craft room is used daily seems like. - JMS

Rarely. I haven't really needed them. - Hutch Carpenter

I only check every few days. - Mark Wilson

I have RSS feed for one room (FIR) which is the only way I keep up. If I add other rooms, will do the same thing - Doug Haslam via twhirl

I think rooms is one of those features that haven't been thought well enough by the FriendFeed folks - JungleG

rarely - they are a great source if I am looking for information specific to that room's topic though - Marco

I'm subscribed to a lot of rooms but I only check a few regularly (everyday). - Shey

I check all the time. I actually have the rss feeds to all mine so i get the updates as they are posted in google reader. - (jeff)isageek

I check rooms everyday. - Mo Jawhari

Love the Invites Room - get all of my alpha/beta invites from there, and quick. Also have my own room for saving things (suggested by Steve Rubel, I think.) Have a few others that I keep out of the mainstream - I want the info, but don't need it every day, so I check them a couple times a week. Helps with the clutter. - Ro (Lilyhill)

Never. - Brent Newhall

I never check rooms. Stuff comes into my main feed and I may see it, but that about it. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

intermittently, yes, I do. - Parth Awasthi

I have the room activity automatically showing up in my feed. But, there are only a couple very active rooms in my feed so isn't a big deal. - Yolanda

I have a private room for talking with my boyfriend, so I check rooms constantly. I see what's going on in my other rooms, but I don't visit them nearly as often as that private room. - Kamilah Gill

I rarely check them, it's like Facebook Groups I join them but eventually they are just in the background!! - Joe Dawson

I had forgotten about them... - Grant Bierman

They show up in my feed, but I don't usually check. - Mitchell Tsai

I check everyday. It's where I go to find niche content that I don't see on the main friendfeed page. - Alan Le

Rarely actually. - fbrunel

Never, I'm not even sure how to discover new rooms. I rely on the content appearing in my general stream. - Andrew Roche via twhirl

I never check them. - Kyle Lacy

I use a room as a bookmark holding ground and possible bloggable section. That way I can return there -- and do -- for inspiration when I sit down to write blog posts. How often? Probably 10-20 times per week. - TDavid

that's a good idea TDavid! - Kyle Lacy

I use the ones *I* created... ;-) - Barbara K. Baker

Pay almost zero attention to this point. - Herb

I have one for storing FF posts too old to like or comment on, too, similar to TDavid's. I don't check it as often. It's like the "WTF" file that I have on my computer. weird stuff I've found - Kamilah Gill

Used to, but don't now unless something interesting pops up on my feed - Kol Tregaskes

funny, i discover i have a negative reaction to seeing the name corvida in my flow, friend of a friend .. it came from the 1938 thing, and i have never gone to any page with that name on it since. very curious. same with the name shey. a public confession of my sensitivity towards race-minded people. i thought of her today, when i saw a chris rock video on youtube, and here she is on my page. i wonder if anyone learned anything from that drama. now, about rooms ... valuable, if focused. daily use. - gregory lent

a couple of times per week at the MOST - Sarah Perez

Corvida posted a message on Twitter

“New on SheGeeks: CNet Beta Testing A New Site Design - http://tinyurl.com/6jnktl”

August 21 at 11:56 am - Link

Sarah Perez liked this

simple=good :) - Sarah Perez

Corvida shared an item on Google Reader

Turns Out People Say They're Concerned About Privacy, But They're Not

August 21 at 4:51 pm - Link

Sarah Perez liked this

oh how funny! (and true) - Sarah Perez

Corvida shared an item on Google Reader