Category Archives: Miscellany

Miscellany

Emergency Valentine’s Day Card Help

I realize this is late notice, and if it’s already too late for you, file this away for future reference because it’s really a neat trick for people who really hate to give those incredibly smarmy “omg this is so obnoxiously sweet I feel as though I need an insulin shot just for reading it” […]...

Published On - February 14, 2007

Carolyn Miscellany
Miscellany

Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials on Blogs

There was a comment made during the Disney/Spocko’s Brain fuss a few weeks ago that really bothered me. Neil Simpkins, the lawyer for Spocko’s hosting provider 1&1, justified 1&1’s decision to pull the plug on Spocko’s blog based on the lack of case precedent concerning fair use of copyrighted material on blogs. “The [fair use] battle for […]...

Published On - January 21, 2007

Carolyn Miscellany
DomainsMiscellany

We have a visitor

A visitor from wcsp.wipo.int (193.5.93.24) was logged once, starting at 12:30:02 AM on Monday, January 8, 2007. The initial browser was Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0). This visitor first arrived without a referring URL, and visited www.www.cshel.com/domains/2006/12/wipo-is-chewbacca/ In keeping with the Star Wars theme, I was going to say something about the “empire […]...

Published On - January 10, 2007

Carolyn Domains, Miscellany
Miscellany

New Year’s Resolutions

1) Stop procrastinating. 2) Focus.  3) Lose weight. 4) Quit impulse buying domains. Number one is pretty obvious since it’s January 3rd and I’m just now writing my resolutions. Number two is going to take some effort because I’m always thinking of things that would be cool or fun to try, and I really think […]...

Published On - January 3, 2007

Carolyn Miscellany
MiscellanySocial Networking

Blog Tagged!

Brent Csutoras of WeirdAsiaNews.com blog-tagged me, so here goes my obligatory five things people might not know about me and then my five tags.  1) I took the SATs the summer before I started 7th grade. Yes, it was the real SAT and no, they didn’t modify the grading scale. There was a program that found […]...

Published On - December 20, 2006

Carolyn Miscellany, Social Networking