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Archive for April 2006

Of Mice and Men

April 26, 2006 – 22:46

Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck tell the tragic story of George and Lennie, two farm workers in California during the Great Depression. The story is set on a farm in the Salinas Valley, not far from Soledad. And not far from Steinbecks own birthplace, born to two first-generation Americans of German and Scot-Irish descent in the beginning of last century. An American author familiar with the hardships of the working man.

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By Anders Dahnielson | Published in Essays, Literature | 2 comments

Domain Registry of Assholes

April 25, 2006 – 11:11

Looks like the business that call themselves Domain Registry of America is once again sending out their scam letter trying to fool people to renew their domain registrations and transfer them to DRoA, despite the fact they are already registered with another registrar. Please don’t do business with them!

I have no idea why they think I would perceive it as a good idea to pay their 26 Euro per year instead of 15 U.S. Dollar I currently do over at directNIC. DirectNIC is great, they include a lot of free services that other would try to monetize (yes, I hate that word) in one way or another, and as a New Orleans based business they even lived through Katrina without closing down.

By Anders Dahnielson | Published in From the hip, Internet | No comments

What A Day

April 1, 2006 – 20:49

April 1, 2006 was the day when even the Slashdot-crowd realized it was pointless to post comments…

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By Anders Dahnielson | Published in From the hip | No comments
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