I was rudely greeted this morning by several complaints that one of my web sites was no longer available.  After some digging around, I learned that IX Webhosting has a major Daylight Savings time glitch in their billing system.  Apparently they expired one of my hosting accounts last night at 12:00 am.

Fortunately this site is hosted at Hurricane Electric, who has been a reliable host for over 10 years.  You just have to learn some lessons the hard way I guess.

Legislation that was recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to bar access to “Social Networking” sites like MySpace if you are accessing them from a school or library. While the concept is well intended, the sloppy manner in which it was drafted is going to bar access to an overbroad range of sites that simply let you create an online profile.

Thats millions of sites!

This politically motivated rush to create new laws has everyone wondering how carelessly these legislators will behave in order to bolster their party’s prospects in the upcoming elections.

Read the C|Net Article

“So now we are on the floor with a piece of legislation poorly thought out, with an abundance of surprises, which carries with it that curious smell of partisanship and panic, but which is not going to address the problems,” said Rep. John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat. “This is a piece of legislation which is going to be notorious for its ineffectiveness and, of course, for its political benefits to some of the members hereabout.”