Dan Jenson

Network solutions gets itself in the middle of controversy, it decides to suspend a web account over complaints - this is quite disturbing, a United States company censoring. No court told them they had to take it down, they just decided to pull the web site of a filmmaker because of some complaints. This is ludacris. It has started a big discussion at digg as well, and I know of people who are moving their web sites to different companies because of this. Apparently this is not the first time Network Solutions has pulled sites of the web because they were controversial.

An excerpt from the article found at yahoo news / reuters

Web host suspends site planned for anti-Koran film

Sat Mar 22, 9:37 PM ET

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A U.S.-based web service, which Islam critic and Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders planned to use to show his film critical of the Koran, said on Saturday that it had inactivated the site due to complaints.

“This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site’s content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy,” the company said on the site www.fitnathemovie.com.

Wilders, who has given few details about his 15-minute film, has said he plans to release “Fitna” on the Internet before the end of the month after Dutch broadcasters declined to show it. Fitna is a Koranic term sometimes translated as “strife.”

There are plenty of other places to buy domain names and get web hosting. I am not aware of godaddy.com or register.com doing any kind of things like this.

I was excited to tell  Alice about my decision to get back into school, but she made me aware of several of the costs that I had not considered, and it kind of put a damper on the whole thing for me.

She started by asking me how much I was going to make from each massage that I gave when I had finished school and gotten my license, of course this varies quite a bit, but going with a 60 per hour massage as an average sounds great when you first think about it. Alice of course broke this down, and made me realize that I would have to give more than 100 massages just to pay for school and not even be making a profit.

Of course - there are many other costs associated with going back to school - extra books, extra time, time away from family and friends.  Then there is money associated with the tuition - if I borrow money and have to pay back a student loan, there is more costs, and if I use my own money - then there is money lost there because that money could be invested and returning interest on that.

Ugh - the things we must do for a higher education.

I’m a big fan of natural things that help make you feel better, and many people already know about echinacea from the purple coneflower, even though there will always be scientific debate over how effective these natural cures can be, i know from experimenting on myself that echinacea, astragalus and some types of mushrooms certainly kick in the immune system, and they tend to give me a yeast infection just like antibiotics.

So if you are the kind of person that keeps a bottle of echinacea in the cupboard, I reccomend adding some reishi and shitake mushrooms to the mix along with astragalus. It wouldn’t hurt to have a little hgh and dhea as well.

It’s a sign of the times, gas prices up, the dollar is down. Life seems much more expensive today and I ‘m definitely not making more. Most people I know are trying to do more with less, and now I am considering doing less with less.

I have certainly been traveling less. Less road trips, less trips to the stores. Vacations have been less the past two years, and I don’t see myself booking and trips to exotic locations with expensive hotels any time soon.

I’m on the fence about trading down housing at this point at well. There are many things I like about living in the suburbs, although several of the things I enjoyed about the suburbs have changed, and real estate in the country seems to be a better option for regaining many of the things I really enjoy about the suburbs, like the types of neighbors and crime issues. Although I would certainly miss the ease of access I have to several 24 hour food and drug stores, I can certainly consider making less trips buy buying more at once.