I just received this email:

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN®) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you?

Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July 1, 2006* — $.03 has been placed into your Go Daddy® account with this customer number: XXXXXX.

Your in-store credit will be applied to your purchases at GoDaddy.com® until it’s gone or for up to 12 months, whichever comes sooner. If you have any questions, please contact a customer service representative at 480-505-8877.

As always, thank you for being a Go Daddy customer.

Sincerely,

Bob Parsons
CEO and Founder
GoDaddy.com

THANKS ICANN FOR THINKING ABOUT SOMEONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF. I suppose that .03$ would be good for people with a billion domain names. But it kind of makes me laugh. Whatever you have to do to sleep better at night, ICANN.

Hey everyone!

The Summer Sessions. The dates are as follows:

Session I: 19-21 May 2006.
Session II: 16-18 June 2006.
Session III: 14-16 July 2006.
Session IV: 11-13 August 2006.

I apologise for this post being a bit late on the uptake for the first session, but most of you who could make it are already aware of the plans.

And here they are!

Some of you may remember the weekend hack session held last summer. It was a total blast and we got quite a bit done. This year, we’re going to change things up a bit. Since we’ll be getting together over the course of four months, we can get into some major projects, as we’ll be back together every four weeks. The big change, however, is the learning opportunity we’re going to create.

I want to hear feedback from all of you. Those of you that have something to offer, let me know what you’d like to teach. Those of you who are interested in learning anything in particular, let me know. We’ll get ideas and interests and break off into smaller groups during the sessions. Again, taking advantage of being back together every four weeks, we can work on smaller projects as a learning experience over the course of the summer. Speaking for myself (and maybe others!), it will provide an opportunity to contribute where there might not otherwise have been one.

There isn’t any set plan, except to keep it flexible. I know some of you won’t be able to make it to all of them, which is another reason I need the feedback from all of you. Since there are specific things that some of you have already expressed interest in, I want to make sure that, if possible, you make it for the same session as whoever has that information to offer.

Remember, this whole concept is still a work in progress, and will be for the entire summer. Please give me feedback! I know all you can give me for now is what you know and what you want to know. We’ll all have a better idea as to how we want to work things after Session I.

UbuntuDetroit.org underwent some major maintenance and currently has no content to speak of. My plan is to get to that during the first session. Further updates will be posted there once I get everything settled in.

I was pointed to the idea of a Code Camp. Our Summer Sessions inadvertently follow the Code Camp Manifesto (http://blogs.msdn.com/trobbins/archive/2004/12/12/280181.aspx). Once I get the information posted into UbuntuDetroit.org, I am going to post our dates on the scheduled Code Camp Wiki page: http://www.bostondotnet.org/codecamp/default.aspx/CodeCamp/CodeCampSchedule.html

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The Code Camp Manifesto:

1. By and For the Developer Community

Code Camps are about the developer community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community.

2. Always Free

Code Camps are always free for attendees.

3. Community Developed Material

The success of the Code Camps is that they are based on community content. All content that is delivered is original. All presentation content must be provided completely (including code) without any restriction. If you have content you don’t want to share or provide to attendees then the Code Camp is not the place for you.

4. No Fluff - only Code

Code Camps are about showing the code. Refer to rule #1 if you have any questions on this.

5. Community Ownership

The most important element of the Code Camp is always the developer community. All are welcome to attend and speak and do so without expectation of payment or any other compensation other than their participation in the community.

6. Never occur during work hours

We need to understand that many times people can’t leave work for a day or two to attend training or even seminars. The beauty of the Code Camp is that they always occur on weekends.

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With that, I’m looking forward to seeing all of you who are coming this weekend for Session I. For the rest of you, you’ll be missed, but I hope you can make it for the rest of the sessions (or to one at least!). Please feel free to send me an email with any questions or if you would like to attend: kattni@gmail.com

See you soon!

So. Thought I would be l337. Thought I would host my website at home. Routers rock. Routers can do that. I rock, I can do that. I have a server, it’s awesome. I can set it all up and be all geektastic.

Theoretically.

Yea, it looked better on paper.

Anyway, it worked for a while and then it stopped, and I never quite figured out what went wrong.

SO! I have given in to the demons that be, and I moved my site back out into the hosting world.

And, that being said, welcome back to Kittyfish. May your stay be enjoyable and and accessible for more than a day at a time.

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I have actually impressed myself with what 4 hours and insomnia can do for a webpage.

And 2 hours of that was spent with the picture of the cat in Photoshop and a 2px paintbrush tool.

Anyway, with that… Welcome to Kittyfish.

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It seems like I’m always setting personal goals and never keeping them. Not the important ones, like getting to work on time or getting school work done… But the truly personal ones such as excercise and lose weight, or as a recent example, to try to do something productive every day, including updating this site. As it would appear, I have again failed to achieve my goal. I definitely haven’t been productive every day. I began editing a pair of my pants, which involved tearing them apart and sewing them back together differently, but i screwed it up a bit. All it meant was taking a little more time to finish it, but they’re still sitting in the living room pinned awaiting the rescue mission. I went for a long walk about a week ago… excercise-long, we walked over 5 miles. Other than that I haven’t really done much. I realised that I’ve gained weight. I was deciding what to wear for tonight and when I tried on one of my favorite skirts, it was too tight. That’s no good at all. And is rather strange considering I don’t have much money to buy food, and therefore don’t eat much. Who knows. I suppose that’s some incentive to attempt some sort of exercise schedule, but that’s the first time in over a year that I’ve had the chance to dress up. So it’s not very likely.

Anyway… as it were, I have been extremely busy on the webpage. It wouldn’t appear so. There’s finally pictures under visualaid and as you can see soulcandy has been taken down. I’m not sure what I’ll replace it with, if anything. But I realised that I just didn’t have the patience to put enough information on media on this site so as to warrant the necessity for an entire section dedicated to it. So down it went.

But… this is the fun part, and the entire reason for me writing this entry… I have officially converted this entire website over to CSS or, for those who don’t know, Cascading Style Sheets. Normally when you’re writing a webpage, you put all the formatting information within the page itself, right at the point where you wish to format it as such. With CSS, you write a single file and insert one line at the beginning of each page linking to that file. And voila! Every page is not only formatted beautifully, it’s formatted exactly the same. It makes for cleaner coding and zero continuity issues. Best part of all is that I did it all by myself. Once again… I did try to get other people to do it, but everyone either refused or was doing something else. And since it involved editting every page on the site, I wanted it done now. So just as I did with creating this site in the first place, I hacked it out and did it all myself.

Maybe I’ll learn and just do things myself to begin with. Doubtful.

Anyway… Now those who know technically what I’m talking about will understand that I haven’t been slacking. And the rest of you will just have to take my word for it.